Will getting married be a positive or a negative? If the above Tweet from EyeSpyMP is correct then Ed Miliband will soon be a married man. This had been an event on which there had been betting so some punters look set to be better off. The problem for EdM is that given he has been in the relationship for many years and had children without being married then why’s he decided to do something about it now? It will…
Will today’s measures help cut-back the Labour lead? In the end almost everything that was predicted for the budget actually came about and what we saw was a package of measures designed to meet one objective – to make the the government’s cut-backs more acceptable. Osborne focussed his big measure, the one pence cut in the price of a litre of petrol, on one of the costs that I’ve long argued is super-sensitive politically. For many the car is essential…
Are there any good budget bets? Firstly thanks to Marf for her budget day cartoon. The reason that we’ve not seen much of her work on the site recently is that all her energies have been focussed on a special exhibition that opens in April in London – more details on that later. On the budget itself the level of briefing and leaks that we’ve seen is reminiscent of Gordon Brown’s days at the treasury when lots of information and…
Poll Date CON % LAB % LD % OTH % Angus Reid/ 20/03/11 32 41 10 17 Angus Reid/ 04/03/11 33 41 10 16 Angus Reid/ 10/02/11 34 40 11 15 Angus Reid/Sunday Express 28/02/11 32 43 11 14 Angus Reid/ 25/01/11 33 41 12 13 Angus Reid/ 06/01/11 35 40 12 15 Angus Reid/ 20/12/10 35 41 9 12 Angus Reid/ 29/11/10 35 40 13 13 Angus Reid/ 28/10/10 35 37 15 11 Angus Reid/Sunday Express 01/10/10 35 38…
Could UN 1973 have other benefits not initially apparent? When a leader threatens the people with ‘no mercy’ it is inevitable that some form of an International response would be forthcoming. The International community could not again stand idle and do nothing. The lessons of Kosovo have been learned, the method of implementation qualified by the experiences and errors of Iraq but an ‘elephant in the room’ of Bahrain and perhaps even Zimbabwe still do remain and will need to…
Pollster/publication Question wording Date Right % Wrong % YouGov for the Sun Do you think Britain, France, the US and other countries are right or wrong to take military action in Libya? 20/03/11 to 21/03/11 45 36 Pollster/publication Question wording Date Agree % Disagree % ComRes online for ITV news It is right for the UK to take military action against Colonel Gadafi’s forces in Libya 18/03/11 to 20/03/11 35 43 Is it down to timing and the wording? At 10pm…
ComRes/ITV News poll sampled online from Friday until Sunday Response % It is right for the UK to take military action against Colonel Gaddafi’s forces in Libya Agree 35 Disagree 43 Don’t know 22 I feel I have a good understanding of why the UK is planning military action in Libya  Agree 52 Disagree 29 Don’t know 18 Military action in Libya is an unnecessary risk for Britain to take  Agree 49 Disagree 31 Don’t know 20 The international…