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YouGov finds that the number of LAB voters thinking Brexit is wrong reaches new high

YouGov finds that the number of LAB voters thinking Brexit is wrong reaches new high

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How LAB voters in latest YouGov poll are splitting on Brexit. I think the 76% saying Brexit wrong is the highest yet. pic.twitter.com/zPqhI3nttg — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 23, 2018 This could add to the pressure on Corby as we move to conference season The big issue within LAB that’s going to cause problems for the leadership at next month’s conference is the pressure for another referendum. It’s been quite amazing that Corbyn has been able to sustain a position…

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Campaign-funded YouGov poll points to the LDs getting to within 2 points of LAB if the red team backs Brexit

Campaign-funded YouGov poll points to the LDs getting to within 2 points of LAB if the red team backs Brexit

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New YouGov poll commissioned by an anti-Brexit campaign group points to big electoral price that LAB would pay if continues to back Brexithttps://t.co/2FUSmdTxSr — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 19, 2018 But how much can we read into such hypothetical polling? This is from the Guardian report: “A YouGov poll of more than 4,900 people, released to the Guardian on Sunday, put the Conservatives ahead of Labour by four points in a snap election should the latter adopt an anti-Brexit position,…

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Good Queen Tess

Good Queen Tess

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Picture credit: Pulpstar The country is divided into two fiercely-opposed camps. One group wants to free the country completely from European control, completing a process begun under a previous leader, whereas the other group wants to reverse the break from Europe altogether. In parliament the latter group has the majority, but the real levers of power are held – somewhat precariously – by a woman who, nominally at least, favours the break. But does she? There is suspicion amongst the…

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Comedy Central’s answer to the Vote Leave Brexit bus

Comedy Central’s answer to the Vote Leave Brexit bus

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The worry for leavers is if this meme catches on A key part in Leave’s narrow victory at the referendum was its success in portraying negative comments about leaving the EU as “Project Fear”. That was two and a quarter years ago and now the Brexit date of March 29 2019 is not that far off. Nobody appears to know what is going to happen and many are fearful of uncertainty. The political situation at Westminster, how the EU might…

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The end of an era. Sir Paul Dacre is said to have edited his last Daily Mail

The end of an era. Sir Paul Dacre is said to have edited his last Daily Mail

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We can expect fewer powerful pro-Brexit front pages like these? The biggest political development over the weekend, I’d suggest, was the report in the Observer about the replacement of Paul Dacre as Daily Mail editor with the Geordie Gregg, of the Mail on Sunday, who has taken a totally different view of the referendum outcome. Gregg will start in September a couple of months earlier than planned and it is hard to see, given his views, him carrying on with…

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This poll just about sums Brexit up – 60% don’t care what happens over Brexit they just want it to be over

This poll just about sums Brexit up – 60% don’t care what happens over Brexit they just want it to be over

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As the issue rolls on and on, do you just want #Brexit to be finished? From yesterday's @BBCWestminHour with @EllieJPrice, six out of ten agreed that they no longer care how or when we leave – they just want it over and done with. That rises to three quarters of leavers. pic.twitter.com/JJGUcbfdN7 — Joe Twyman (@JoeTwyman) August 6, 2018 This is good news for TMay I’m starting to like some of the original output from DeltaPoll – the new pollster…

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Those whom the Gods wish to destroy. What happens next now that Britain has gone mad

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy. What happens next now that Britain has gone mad

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At Deltapoll, we asked Leave voters in Britain to choose between leaving the #EU and peace in #NorthernIreland. Nearly 6 out of 10 said the UK leaving the EU was more important. #Brexit pic.twitter.com/0FqMJAJZgN — Joe Twyman (@JoeTwyman) July 31, 2018 So now we know.  A majority of Leavers are stark staring bonkers.  The signs had always been there: the swivel-eyed attacks on the judiciary as enemies of the people for giving judgment in a case, on the governor of…

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Topping, who served with the British Army in Northern Ireland during the troubles, on Ulster and Brexit

Topping, who served with the British Army in Northern Ireland during the troubles, on Ulster and Brexit

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Kenneth Allen / Bloody Sunday mural, Bogside Why the border issue is so important to both sides Why, when we’re busy trying to Brexit, is everyone hung up on Northern Ireland? Why should we let this small part of the UK, with a population just larger than Newcastle’s, dictate seemingly our entire Brexit settlement? Terrorism, people say. But we don’t give in to terrorists, so why does Northern Ireland and its terrorists get such special treatment? For most people in the UK,…

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