A victory for EdM this week As predicted here last night Ed Miliband used his PMQ opportunity this week to open the potential split within the coalition on the NHS changes and put Cameron on the spot over what’s being proposed. The PM’s lack of response to Miliband’s point about the NHS being opened up to EU competition law was very telling. It appeared that he was not up to speed on what’s in the government’s bill. The danger for…
Sean Fear investigates The ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that this country’s blanket ban on prisoners voting is unlawful has handed Cameron’s political opponents a handy stick with which to beat him. The Commons has made it absolutely plain that this ruling is anathema, yet at the same time, Kenneth Clarke, and the Liberal Democrats, are adamant that the ruling must be complied with. Right wing newspapers are arguing that Britain should withdraw from the European…
What’s he going to say to Ed about the NHS reforms? You don’t have to be much of a political pundit to work out that the main domestic focus of Ed Miliband’s questions at PMQs tomorrow will be on the government’s troubled plans for the NHS. For not only will he have a raft of material from Saturday’s debate at the Lib Dem conference to refer to there’s also today’s decision by the BMA calling for the withdrawal of the…
Did the blues make the wrong call last May? On the previous thread Laptop posed the question of whether, in the light of what’s happened over the past ten months, the Tories would have been better going for a “supply & confidence” arrangement with the Lib Dems rather than full coalition? Certainly looking at the way the polls and and Barnsley have gone things look bleak for the yellows as they face the May 5th English locals and the devolved…
…the “Crusade” to get out of Europe goes on According to the paper:- “.VOTERS were last night signing up in their thousands to a campaign warning MPs to back a poll on EU membership or face losing their seats Supporters are being asked to sign a pledge not to vote for any MP who fails to back a national “in or out†referendum..Organisers of the cross-party “People’s Pledge†initiative said yesterday that they were astonished at the massive surge of…
Is the grey vote going to win it for NO? Although we’ve been getting conflicting messages on the AV referendum there’s one big trend that’s seen in all the surveys where the actual question that’s on the ballot will be put – the older you are the least likely it is that you want change. I’ve just extracted the split, repercentaged to show just decided voters, of the oldest age group from all the latest polls. Normally you shouldn’t read…
BBC news With the dramatic story following Japan’s earthquake continuing to unfold this has so many implications that it is hard to focus on anything else. There is nothing I can add in a thread header – but this is what so many of us want to talk about. So please use this thread to discuss what’s happening and the implications – and to post links about any new developments. Mike Smithson
ComRes finds more 2010 LD voters than LAB ones Someone, no doubt, will correct me if I’m wrong but I believe that this weekend’s ComRes poll for the Indy on Sunday represents something of a first – when respondents were asked how they voted in the general election last May more said they had opted for the Lib Dems than Labour. Given, as we all know, the final GB shares were CON 37%: LAB 29.75: LD 23.6% then there’s either…