David is showing signs of beating Goliath
Henry G Manson’s Friday column Perhaps the most enduring part of Ed Miliband’s conference speech 10 day ago wasn’t the energy policy he outlined, but his charge against David Cameron. The Prime Minister was “strong at standing up to the weak, but weak at standing up to the strong.†In that one sentence the Labour leader was able to neatly bundle everything anxiety about the Tories, from being too close to News International, siding with the richest earners to cut…
How supporters of the main parties view ethnic minorities
LAB stays in the 40s with YouGov as conference season ends
Today’s YouGov is based on fieldwork which started on Tuesday evening and finished late after yesterday – so would have covered the Mili-Mail flare-up and Dave’s big speech yesterday. The latest shares are CON 34, LAB 40, LD 9, UKIP 10. So the two main parties had 74% between them which is a very high proportion compared with other recent polling. It looks like the LDs and Ukip have been squeezed by the parties which had their conferences at the…
Marf’s and other reaction to Cameron’s speech
I’ve been out all day and have yet to see Dave’s big speech – so I don’t have any views. The following I found interesting. Telegraph man declares EdM the winner Ed Miliband won this year's party conference season. (My @Telegraph blog on Cameron's speech.) http://t.co/fmuL5zzhil — Iain Martin (@iainmartin1) October 2, 2013 Martin writes:- “His (Cameron”s) effort today at Tory conference in Manchester this year will not be ranked as great. It was perfectly fine, with all sorts of…
A new month starts and UKIP’s support remains buoyant
The Godfrey Bloom affair hasn’t even registered Another month starts and there’s no sign that support for UKIP is on the wane in spite of the much publicised blow at the party’s annual conference 11 days ago. The chart above shows the recent UKIP shares in the YouGov daily poll for News International and it is hard to detect any impact. The ComRes phone poll for the Indy, published on Monday, had UKIP up. The only firm with it down…
12 days ago Opinium found more CON voters than LAB ones saying their party would win
Would it be the same today? As we’ve go into the last day of conference season 2013 one thing’s for sure, the political world does looks different from early September when the Lib Dems gathered in Glasgow. There was fairly sober but surprisingly upbeat LD conference; the UKIP one not shaping up quite as Farage planned; the drama of EdM’s speech and his commitment on energy prices; and of course the current Tory event which has been somewhat overshadowed by…
Cameron speech bingo – “Hardworking families” at evens must be a cert
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