Browsed by
Category: BREXIT

The Campbell expulsion from LAB – the ramifications continue

The Campbell expulsion from LAB – the ramifications continue

Comments 0 Comment

I’ve witnessed Kate Hoey share a stage with Nigel Farage, in front of an image mocking Jeremy Corbyn.Accross the street on another stage was Tommeh Robnson.Kate Hoey is still a labour member.Alastair Campbell has been expelled today. — ali (@ali__samson) May 28, 2019 I bet several Labour MPs quietly voted Lib Dem too, just as many Conservative MPs voted for the Brexit Party last Thursday. https://t.co/ju2nU78z2F — Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) May 28, 2019 In what isn’t coincidental timing, Alastair Campbell…

Read More Read More

Alastair Campbell purged from Corbyn’s LAB for backing the LDs in last week’s election

Alastair Campbell purged from Corbyn’s LAB for backing the LDs in last week’s election

Comments 0 Comment

Well this is all going a bit East Germany ca 1953 … Labour expels Alastair Campbell from party https://t.co/q35cU1ysVr — anne mcelvoy (@annemcelvoy) May 28, 2019 I suspect if they knew all the members who voted LibDem or Green in EU elections and expelled them there would be few of us left https://t.co/AAeaJ8YjDL — George Foulkes (@GeorgeFoulkes) May 28, 2019 Remember Corbyn taking pleasure at Labour's defeat in the 2012 Bradford by-election pic.twitter.com/yKMOZKvf9M — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) May 28, 2019…

Read More Read More

Maastricht Redux

Maastricht Redux

Comments 0 Comment

Once upon a time there was a stubborn female PM annoying the hell out of her colleagues. A junior Minister was even overheard calling her “a cow” and wishing she would resign. She was determinedly pursuing and arguing for an initially popular pledge – abolition of the rates – by means of a ferociously unpopular policy: the poll tax. No-one was convinced. Tory MPs looked nervously at their majorities, their annoyed constituents and wondered why she would not listen. A…

Read More Read More

The big picture from the turnout figures so far annouced is that the more an area was for Remain the more people voted yesterday

The big picture from the turnout figures so far annouced is that the more an area was for Remain the more people voted yesterday

Comments 0 Comment

The results have been verified. 28,438 votes were counted with a turnout of 30.5% in Ashfield pic.twitter.com/BEKjlq1ojZ — Ashfield Council (@ADCAshfield) May 24, 2019 Although there has been no exit or other polling there has been a mass of data from the local authority areas that began verifying the ballots overnight. The big picture so far is in the headline – there’s a correlation between the percentage of those who voted yesterday and what the area did at the referendum….

Read More Read More

Frustratingly there’ll be no results or even on the day polls until Sunday at 10pm

Frustratingly there’ll be no results or even on the day polls until Sunday at 10pm

Comments 0 Comment

Those used to general elections in the UK and the drama of the exit poll coming out they might get a bit deflated to have reached 10 this evening to find the polls have closed and nothing is happening. We will have to wait until 10 p.m. on Sunday evening for the first results to come out. This is because of the strict rules about EU elections that no information on voting can be revealed until such time as as…

Read More Read More

The final poll puts BRX on 35% with the LDs in second place 5% ahead of LAB

The final poll puts BRX on 35% with the LDs in second place 5% ahead of LAB

Comments 0 Comment

New @IpsosMORI Euros poll completed last night sees LAB trailing LDsBREX: 35%LD: 20%LAB: 15%GRN: 10%CON: 9%CHUK: 3%UKIP: 3% — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) May 23, 2019 This is much closer to YouGov than other polls The pollster, Ipsos-MORI, has a long history of trying to be the publisher of the last poll before an election. It does this by finishing its fieldwork on the Wednesday evening and generally it is published in the London Evening Standard on the Thursday. With this…

Read More Read More

The top pollster from the 2014 Euros now has LAB in third place six points behind the LDs

The top pollster from the 2014 Euros now has LAB in third place six points behind the LDs

Comments 0 Comment

“Bollocks to Brexit” not harming the LDs Throughout the Euros campaign one pollster has been producing very different numbers from just about everybody else. That is YouGov which in its survey for the Times this morning finds that the Brexit party is on 37% with the Lib Dems on 19 and labour six points behind that on 13. Almost all the other firms have LAB maintaining a second place position and lower numbers for TBP. It is highly likely we…

Read More Read More

Food for thought for would-be defectors to the Brexit Party

Food for thought for would-be defectors to the Brexit Party

Comments 0 Comment

Mike Greene, the Brexit Party candidate for the Peterborough by-election, reportedly met Nigel Farage for the first time the night before he was unveiled as the new party’s representative. You have to hope that he does better due diligence on the companies he invests in. For Nigel Farage is not the easiest man to work for.He has a very long-established habit of falling out with those around him. His history of leading UKIP was one of nonstop rows with senior…

Read More Read More