Night hawks is open
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Nearly half of Lib Dem members want Nick Clegg to resign as Leader by May 2015.
Is this the moment for Vince Cable to seize the leadership? It hasn’t been a good few years for Nick Clegg, some of the lowlights include Membership has slumped by 25% in a year The AV referendum was lost, which caused a rumpus in cabinet Plans for an elected House of Lords have been dropped Disappointing local election results He still remains the worst performing leader with the Ipsos-Mori leadership ratings, and with the Lib Dems polling with some of…
Betting opportunities on Julian Assange
Guest slot by David Lenton. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 12 months then I’m sure you’ve heard of Julian Assange – you know that kinda weird looking guy from Wiki Leaks? Anyway in what can only be described as a self serving publicity stunt online bookmaker Stan James have decided it’s time to open up two betting markets surrounding Ecuador’s latest and greatest. How Will Assange Leave The Ecuadorian Embassy? The first of the two…
Marf on Prince Harry
Richard Nabavi on The American Presidential election: Swing, Shift and Jiggle
Why Electoral College bands are not created equal State 2008 lead     Poll average     Elec College Votes   Cumulative ECV Nevada 12.5 5 6 243 Wisconsin 13.9 3.5 10 253 New Hampshire 9.6 3.5 4 257 Ohio 4.6 1.8 18 275 Iowa 9.5 1 6 281 Colorado 9 1 9 290 Virginia 6.3 1 13 303 Florida 2.8 1 29 332 North Carolina 0.3 -1 15 347 Missouri -0.1 -6.3 10 357 Montana…
PB Nighthawks is now open
Home of the web’s best political conversation As Frankie said, Relax, and converse into the night on the day’s political events. If you’ve always been a lurker why not join in tonight? A round up on today’s events. ComRes have some polling on the economy Following on from this morning’s thread, Ladbrokes have a market on whether some members of the cabinet will still be in the cabinet on the 1st of October.
Does the UK still have a global role?
Guest slot by Financier. “For those immediate years of post-war austerity and exhaustion, still on rations as we watched our global empire unravel, birthed a national narrative that endured, with the odd interruption, for more than six decades. It is a story of decline, of Britain as a nation, once glorious, now reduced to a tired marginality, bobbing around in the Atlantic, stuck between Europe and a superpower United States.”  – Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, 11th of August 2012. Recently, Defence…