In honour of our new Poet Laureate For those of you not familiar with Morus’ Saturday Slant, this is the time of the week where Mike allows me to weave an ill-formed political idea into a completely tangental form of prose with varying degrees of success. Previous victims have included such literary luminaries as Harold Pinter and Sir John Mortimer, so I thought it only fair to pen an homage to Carol Ann Duffy who was yesterday unveiled as our…
PoliticsHome 76% of Lib Dem voters want more collaboration with Tories The panel above summarises findings from the latest PoliticsHome poll on attitudes by supporters of the main parties to the collaboration that we saw on Wednesday between the Lib Dems and the Conservatives over the Ghurka issue. The precise question that was “Yesterday the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives voted together to defeat the government in a House of Commons vote on whether Gurkhas should be allowed to settle…
UKPollingReport They can’t claim that it wasn’t all predicted It’s suddenly become fashionable in the Labour party to be a Brown-sceptic. Hardly a day goes by before some new faction within the movement starts raising questions about his style of leadership and electability. Yet they were all warned two years ago.. For in the year before Brown’s coronation a vast body of polling evidence built up that Labour would do much worse with him as a leader than the standard…
Will the June elections be the pre-text for a move on Brown? Above are the outline results of the 2004 Euro Elections where Labour came in with just 22.6% of the national vote excluding Northern Ireland. The party, was, of course doing far far better in the Westminster voting intention surveys than it is at the moment and it can be argued that it’s performance on June 10th 2004 was inflated by two factors that won’t exist on June 4th….