The 2nd FAV to be next CON leader, Michael Gove suffers exam u-turn blow. thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/n… twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 7, 2013
Tonight’s top tip. If your spouse has taken some speeding points for you DON’T COMMIT ADULTERY — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 6, 2013
Grant Shapps tough comments about the #Eastleigh LDs seems to be the driver of big swing in betting towards CON twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 6, 2013 By-election to be held on Feb 28 The tough comments by CON chair, Grant Shapps/Michael Green, saying that Eastleigh voters had been let down by the lies of Lib Dems seem to have been the driver behind today’s betting which now sees the Tories odds-on with all the online firms apart from…
So far at least last week’s Clegg boundaries veto doesn’t seem to have impacted on the polling twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 6, 2013 Is it now just a footnote? Just eight days ago the big political news was the expected rejection by the Commons of plans to reduce the number of MPs to 600 and introduce new boundaries. There was fury from the blue side with words like “betrayal” coming out – yet this maelstrom doesn’t seem to…
Pie chart with today’s YouGov shares showing changes on the national GB figures from #GE2010 twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 6, 2013 At #GE2010 the Lib Dems held Eastleigh with a lead over the Conservatives of just 7.2%. So the swing required for victory is 3.6%. Today’s YouGov shows a swing to the Tories of 3.8% since 2010 – or just slightly ahead of what is required. The normal way of calculating swings by taking the gap between the…
Was the Gay Marriage vote a proxy for some CON MPs to show unhappiness with Cameron twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 5, 2013
This must be the most worrying poll finding for the Tories at the moment. They appear divided. twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 5, 2013 It has been said many times before that the one thing that is a big turn-off for voters is for a party to appear divided. This arguably has a much greater impact on electoral outcomes than a particular stance on a specific issue. So the big danger for the Tories in the same sex marriage…
Today’s LAB lead of 15% in YouGov daily poll is an all-time high for the firm. CON 30%: LAB 45% twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 5, 2013 @a_c_mcgregor But which was the outlier?The sequence of LAB leads has been 6, 6, 9, 9, 12, 7, 15 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 5, 2013 The full YouGov figures for today: CON 30%, LAB 45%, LD 11%, UKIP 9% — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 5, 2013