As Cameron's big speech, rumours emerge of a 3rd MP defecting at 5pm http://t.co/KV1CuwLK9T … pic.twitter.com/naCD1zapXY — The Screaming Eagles (@TSEofPB) October 1, 2014 Rumour growing that UKIP have a 3rd Tory MP defecting today at 5pm. Not just the donor. — Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) October 1, 2014 TSE
Wednesday's i front page – Trust me to protect the NHS, says Cameron #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/nQylBrzFH1 — Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) September 30, 2014 As the focus is on a defector, Dave is set to make the NHS the centre piece of the election. Coupled with the seven day a week GP promise announced yesterday, it is clear what the Tories will be focussing upon. I suspect the NHS will form a key part of the election battle. It will be…
Election pledges won’t count after the Lisbon Treaty experience In 1787, a group of Americans came together and wrote a whole new constitution for their country from scratch in the space of four hot and humid months. Two and a quarter centuries later, it’s still going strong. True, they didn’t have the complicating factors of histories and traditions or established institutions that the UK has now but they did have to contend with other barriers to success, perhaps at least…
The knee-jerk response to a YES vote? A couple of days ago the Sunday Times reports (££) Informal soundings have been taken about recalling parliament on Saturday, the first Saturday sitting since the Falklands War, if there is a “yes†victory. I know there’s been a lot of debate on pb and elsewhere, about David Cameron resigning in the event of Scotland voting to secede from the United Kingdom, whilst I’ve been in the camp, that he wouldn’t resign, I’m ever…
August is supposed to be the silly season,  but for the second consecutive August, it appears Britain may intervene militarily in the Middle East. Last year, parliament ended that expedition before it even began. But in today’s Telegraph, Cameron writes Isil poses a direct and deadly threat to Britain. The poisonous extremism on the march in Iraq and Syria affects us all – and we have no choice but to rise to the challenge. YouGov over the last few days have…
The Juncker class are the problem not the solution The nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker as next EU Commission President has moved Britain substantially closer to leaving the Union. On the one hand, Britain was marginalised in a process that has traditionally been built on consensus; on the other, the attitude of the Euro-elite – including Juncker – to the European Parliament election results has been to ignore the opposition to the EU direction of travel and carry on as normal….
As the Juncker decision gets closer a great story & pic in the @Telegraph pic.twitter.com/LoJWCn4VHA — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) June 27, 2014 But if he fails then where does that leave Dave? Until now the row over Jean-Claude Juncker has made Cameron look increasingly isolated in Europe. What’s not generally appreciated in the UK is that in most other EU countries the recent European Parliament elections were presented as being about choosing the EU president as well as MEPs. Each…
With one year to go, I thought it would be useful to track how Ed and Dave compare to their predecessors one year before a General Election. I’ve been using the ratings from Ipsos-Mori that go back nearly forty years and are considered to be the Gold Standards of leader ratings. Looking at the Leader of the Opposition net ratings, sometimes the figures speak for themselves. Only Leaders of the Opposition  with net positive ratings one year have…