Is that the value bet following EdM’s big speech? What struck me about the economic parts of Ed Miliband’s speech was what it said about the chances of Ed Balls getting the job of shadow chancellor. It really is hard to see EdM giving him the role giving the very different approach the two men have to the deficit. Also the two are said to have a “history” going back to the election that never was in the autumn of…
How’ll the new leader’s message go down?
Click to play When will they learn – we want the fecking numbers! Fortunately on Saturday afternoon I watched the Labour leadership results being announced on SkyNews and have only just caught up with how the BBC did after reading of a formal complaint made by a PB regular to the BBC and reported on the previous thread. It’s the same fault we get every time. They don’t think that we want the numbers so we had the ridiculous spectacle…
First preferences Abbott Balls Burnham DaveM EdM UNITE 11129 6995 7993 21778 47439 GMB 3213 2548 3119 9746 18128 UNISON 2910 2141 2343 6665 9652 Other 21 bodies 8686 9934 4449 20000 12366 Total affiliates 25938 21618 17904 58189 87585 Overall split 12.28% 10.23% 8.48% 27.55% 41.46% UNITE SPLIT 11.67% 7.34% 8.38% 22.84% 49.76% Should one union be so influential? As everybody knows it was the heavy voting for Ed Miliband in the “associates” third of Labour’s electoral college that…
Poll Date CON LAB LD LEAD YouGov/Sun 27/09/10 39 40 12 -1 YouGov/Sunday Times 24/09/10 39 38 15 1 YouGov/Sun 23/09/10 41 37 13 4 YouGov/Sun 22/09/10 43 36 14 7 YouGov/Sun 21/09/10 39 39 13 0 YouGov/Sun 20/09/10 42 38 11 4 YouGov/Sunday Times 17/09/10 41 39 13 2 YouGov/Sun 16/09/10 41 38 12 3 YouGov/Sun 15/09/10 42 39 12 3 YouGov/Sun 14/09/10 40 39 12 1 YouGov/Sun 13/09/10 41 38 12 3 YouGov/Sunday Times 10/09/10 42 38 14…
Votes Cast / Seats Won and Change Labour 11,694 votes (40.64%) winning 7 seats (unchanged on last time) Conservatives 8,573 votes (29.79%) winning 5 seats (-3 seats on last time) Liberal Democrats 4,611 votes (16.02%) winning 4 seats (+2 seats on last time) SNP 1,382 votes (4.80%) winning 0 seats (unchanged on last time) Greens 822 votes (2.86%) winning 0 seats (unchanged on last time) Independents 700 votes (2.43%) winning 1 seat (+1 seat on last time) UKIP 451 votes…
Would he have fared better without her on the ballot? In early June when David Miliband announced at the last minute that he would nominate Diane Abbott there were those who declared this a master-stroke. For it was argued that the presence of a black woman on the ballot would divert votes from his brother making the latter’s task that much harder. This is how the Indy on Sunday’s John Rentoul described it at the time: ..”What she will do,…
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