Your chance to help predict the next 12 months Instead of our usual prediction competition for 2008 we have “The Big PBC Prediction” where everybody is asked to give their views on a range of political and associated economic events. Please fill in the questions below and let us see if our combined wisdom can get the next year right. Also please can you write comments in the normal way on the thread below and not on the individual poll…
Keeping you entertained throughout the holiday Thanks to Rod Crosby for all he did yesterday providing the constant stream of political trivia questions which kept us amused on Christmas Day. This worked brilliantly – there were 275 comments which compares with the paltry 16 contributions that the site got on Xmas Day 2006. For Boxing Day we have StJohn’s PB Cross-word. I have no idea how hard this is going to and I think that keen cross-word experts are going…
How are you going to do in our annual competition? On January 1st 2007 we opened our annual competition for the Political Forecaster of the Year. The questions that were asked then are set out below. With Nick Clegg safely ensconced as Lib Dem leader nearly all the issues have been resolved – the only thing that could still spring a surprise could be final Guardian ICM survey of 2007. To view the entries please click here – which takes…
But how will either cope with the Vince Cable comparison ? With the result of the Lib Dem leadership contest due to be announced at 2.30 pm the average entry in our PB competition gave it to the party’s home affairs spokesman with 53.71% of the vote. This is quite close to the 56% predicted by the only media-sponsored party membership poll of the campaign – that by YouGov for SkyNews. One figure that might be interesting is the number…