Home of the web’s best political conversation If you’re going to be up All Day and All of the Night, why not relax, and converse into the night on the day’s events in PB NightHawks. To you lurkers, why not delurk? If you delurk, Ev’rybody’s Gonna Be Happy that you’ve delurked. The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant link) The Liberal Democrats have accused Michael Gove’s department of “lying” and…
Home of the web’s best political conversation Why not relax, and converse into the night on the day’s events in PB NightHawks. Nighthawks gives me the opportunity to say Let Me Entertain you with my round up of links. To you lurkers, if you D:Rream of delurking, why not delurk tonight? Things Can Only Get Better for you when you delurk. The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant link)…
I thought it might be useful how Ed and Dave compare to their predecessors as Leader of the Opposition and Prime Minister, eighteen months prior to a General Election. First onto the Leader of the Opposition net ratings with Ipsos-Mori, eighteen months before the General Election. A few caveats about this data. I’ve included Iain Duncan Smith’s final rating, before he was removed as Tory Leader, Michael Howard’s rating, is his first rating as Leader of the Opposition. Overall, it is…
On Wednesday Boris Johnson delivered the Margaret Thatcher lecture at the Centre for Policy Studies. You can read the full speech here. I must declare an interest, speaking as a Tory, I loved the speech, in my opinion, this is the sort of speech more Tories need to make. Unsurprisingly It has lead to pieces like Boris Johnson’s philosophy isn’t just elitist – it’s sinister and  Boris Johnon is Still a ‘Nasty Piece of Work’? even George Osborne distanced himself from parts of…
UKIP have their highest score since 11th June with YouGov Con 30 (-3) Lab 38 (-2) LD 10 (+1) UKIP 15 (+4) Changes since last week — TSEofPB (@TSEofPB) December 1, 2013 And UKIP hit their highest score with Opinium since Mid July Con 28 (nc) Lab 35 (-2) LD 8 (-1) UKIP 19 (+3) — TSEofPB (@TSEofPB) December 1, 2013 There were a couple of polls out last night, both seeing UKIP score figures they haven’t hit since the…
With  less than 18 months to go until the general election, it is worth reviewing that markets that both William Hill and Ladbrokes have on Which party will receive the most votes in the next UK General Election? The Lib Dems or UKIP. The below table shows the vote shares for the Lib Dems and UKIP in the most recent polls by the various pollsters. Pollster Lib Dem % UKIP % Populus (online) 12 7 YouGov (online) 8 14 ComRes (phone)…
Will it be English Tories that swings the IndyRef for the Yes Side? New PB Thread http://t.co/8YtUktuchO pic.twitter.com/Z7Zjjxkoc7 — TSEofPB (@TSEofPB) November 29, 2013 On the love that might finally dare to speak its name. For those of us betting and/or wanting Scotland to vote for independence, bar one poll that was commissioned by the SNP, the general thrust of the recent polling hasn’t been favourable for us, so where will this surge in support for the Yes Side come from? In…
HenryGManson asks Does the government care that household debt is soaring? New PB Thread http://t.co/8WK28EM4eL pic.twitter.com/j16apwPMPH — TSEofPB (@TSEofPB) November 29, 2013 We often hear politicians refer to the national debt, at which point Fraser Nelson will republish his chart showing the latest figures the government owes and that either the Chancellor or Prime Minister is telling fibs. This week Nelson added ‘although I hate to say it, the Labour Party has a valid point to make. If you don’t adjust…