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We’re starting to see swings back to Remain, even in most of the polls conducted before the events of Thursday. YouGov sees a 4% swing in a week Sunday Times YouGov poll 44-43 lead for Remain. YouGov say it has been moving remain's way in unpublished polls long before Jo Cox killed — Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) June 18, 2016 To read YouGov correctly: last Mon 6pt leave lead. Good Morning Britain poll done midweek 2% leave lead. Ours done thurs/fri…

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Embed from Getty Images   A common thread in both the Remain and Leave campaigns is that the EU is something that is done by them to us.  Crudely, Leave wants no more of this.  And, equally crudely, Remain are saying that if we go what they will do to us (or even what we will do to ourselves by leaving) will be “such revenges…….such things, what they are, yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of…

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Last time there was a UK wide referendum the focus was on a large amount of money & it being better spent on the NHS pic.twitter.com/Dp8EoWhhJv — TSE (@TSEofPB) June 17, 2016 A lot of people, myself included, have often drawn comparisons between the EU referendum and the Scottish independence referendum, but perhaps the better comparison is with the AV referendum of 2011. The similarities are uncanny David Cameron is perceived to have betrayed his political allies by taking a…

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Embed from Getty Images   “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” – Groucho Marx Exactly six weeks ago in my first header on the campaign from an advertising perspective I wrote “The advantages of a negative campaign by REMAIN are obvious, the unknown can be made to seem a scary place. By contrast for the LEAVERS dystopian visions are a difficult sell when the EU has been with us for…

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Birstall – what we know:– MP Jo Cox in "critical condition"– Man "slightly injured"– 52-year-old man arrestedhttps://t.co/pbBKlBPWby — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 16, 2016 https://twitter.com/StrongerIn/status/743439773998661638 On the @vote_leave bus @BorisJohnson says he is going to suspend campaigning after the shooting of Jo Cox MP — Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) June 16, 2016 Both campaigns have rightly suspended their campaigns, the only focus should be on hoping Jo Cox makes a full and speedy recovery. TSE