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Month: October 2015

Less than six weeks after becoming LAB leader Mr. Corbyn’s approval ratings slump to a net minus 19 points with Opinium

Less than six weeks after becoming LAB leader Mr. Corbyn’s approval ratings slump to a net minus 19 points with Opinium

Opinium has a new poll out showing almost no change in the voting intention numbers. CON still ahead by 5%. The firm is the only one to regularly ask leader approval questions and the latest survey is not good for Labour’s new leader. In September Opinium had him on a net minus 7 points. Tonight the gap between those who approve of him and those who don’t has widened to 19 points. These latest numbers mean that in every single…

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Five reasons why this CNN politics man has bet on Marco Rubio for the Republican nomination

Five reasons why this CNN politics man has bet on Marco Rubio for the Republican nomination

In his own way there’s a touch of Obama about him I like the case has been made in this clip particularly the debate extract when Rubio is dealing with the language issue. The way he handled it is reminiscent of the conference speech Obama made in 2004 which brought him to prominence for the first time. The age factor is important given that all the potential Democratic party opponents are in their late 60s or 70s. With Rubio the…

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Osborne’s tax credits dilemma might be solved by the Lords – peers could kill the move

Osborne’s tax credits dilemma might be solved by the Lords – peers could kill the move

Huffpost’s Paul Waugh has what appears like a scoop with a report that the House of Lords, where the Tories don’t have a majority, could kill the legislative move to change the tax credits system. This is because the means chosen by Osborne’s team to make this law is via a statutory instrument not new legislation. This has to be approved by both houses of parliament. Waugh writes: “..A rarely-used ‘fatal motion’ is set to be tabled in the House…

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The pressure mounts on Osborne’s tax credit plan

The pressure mounts on Osborne’s tax credit plan

Me for @TheTimes: Cameron must choose. His one nation mission or cuts in tax credits http://t.co/cPIc5UzO7M pic.twitter.com/mLxSYFsSPf — Tim Montgomerie ?? (@montie) October 18, 2015 Remember that George has turned before The headline on Tim Montgomerie’s piece for tomorrow’s Times and his Tweet say it all. The pressure is building for a U-turn. Let’s recall what happened in the aftermath of Osborne’s 2012 “Omnishambles budget”. A whole series of measure from the so-called granny to the pasty tax all got…

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An armed coup if Boris or Corbyn became PM? An extraordinarily large number of people say it would have their support

An armed coup if Boris or Corbyn became PM? An extraordinarily large number of people say it would have their support

44% of Ukip voters tell YouGov that they can envisage situations when they'd support armed forces coup in UK pic.twitter.com/hegZLZkFVs — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 18, 2015 11% of CON voters & 6% of LAB ones tell YouGov that they’d support coup by armed forces if Corbyn became Prime Minister — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 18, 2015 12% of UKIP voters & 5% of CON ones tell YouGov that they’d support coup by armed forces if Boris became Prime Minister…

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Betting on the first Labour MP to resign the whip

Betting on the first Labour MP to resign the whip

The @LadPolitics market on the first Labour MP to resign the party whip. https://t.co/bXDnYmtcG3 pic.twitter.com/PeS2ZEeqKy — TSE (@TSEofPB) October 17, 2015 Ladbrokes have a market up on who will be the first Labour MP to resign the Labour whip. With the forthcoming House of Commons vote on Trident’s replacement, you can see that turning into an epic omnishambles for Labour and CND’s newest Vice-President, Jeremy Corbyn. Given John Woodcock’s past pronouncements on what he were to do were Labour not to…

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ComRes: Osborne 6% behind Boris as “best PM” and just a third say that cutting tax credits is necessary

ComRes: Osborne 6% behind Boris as “best PM” and just a third say that cutting tax credits is necessary

Conservatives have 13 point lead over Labour in new Sunday Mirror / Independent on Sunday Poll pic.twitter.com/zTgDXle97z — ComRes (@ComResPolls) October 17, 2015 39% say Boris would make a better PM than Osborne who is at 33%. But CON voters prefer Osborne to Boris by 48% to 34% CON lead now 13% in latest ComRes online poll for IoS/S Mirror CON 42% LAB 29-1 LD 7=    UKIP 13= No Corbyn bonus there ComRes Cameron & Osborne have and 19 point lead over…

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