In reality, the effect on MPs' seats is more complex to measure as voters are not spread evenly across constituencies: some areas within may heavily favour one party, others its main rival.
"These people may be the people who can spread the virus better, but we still don't know that yet.
I don't like to spread panic unless I absolutely have to, but looking at Gove's pop-up initiatives, I think we ought be keeping our eye on the bubbles.
A photo of Robert Mugabe falling down the stairs has spread like wildfire online after the 90-year-old Zimbabwe president took a tumble outside Harare airport, where he had been speaking to supporters.
Many commentators noted that the letter, like the Republican invitation to the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, to address Congress last week without consulting the White House, marked a dramatic break from the tradition that partisan politics should "stop at the water's edge" and not spread into critical US defence and security policy abroad.
Both have given me the motivation and confidence to carry on my work and to spread the message on to other people.
"Part of playing in the World Cup should be to spread the good word of the game and again the more teams we can have playing, within reason, in the big competitions, the more exposure it gets in their home nations, and the more exposure they get against the bigger sides".
But we need to find better ways to spread expertise.
A web of deliberate confusion and propaganda has been spread over the rebellion, and has made thicker with each of the three regional meetings held in the last 10 days: in Victoria Falls, Addis Ababa and Mauritius.
After finding "fibres" on my own hand, I'm fairly satisfied morgellons is some 21st-century genre of OCD spread through the internet and the fibres are – as Wymore's labs report – particles of everyday, miscellaneous stuff: cotton, human hair, rat hair and so on.
