To me the day’s biggest political development was the re-emergence of Ed Miliband
A powerful speech from the loser of GE2015 He was standing in for Keir Starmer who is self-isolating.
Ed Miliband’s ‘immorality’ might explain why he lost the 2015 general election and why voters never really took to him
Anthropologists at Oxford University have identified what they believe to be seven universal moral rules. We asked Brits which they thought was the single most important:Help your family – 38%Divide resources fairly – 18%Respect others' property – 16%https://t.co/WoS2oPccRe pic.twitter.com/gwMcQtgh8r — YouGov (@YouGov) March 1, 2019 Being seen as the worst brother since Cain didn’t help Ed Miliband chances of becoming Prime Minister I’m fascinated by this polling by YouGov about the seven universal moral rules as developed by anthropologists from…
Cameron can do to the Eurosceptic right in the EURef what he did to Miliband’s LAB and Clegg’s Lib Dems
This is about the total destruction of Dave’s opponents I was very struck last night by the Twreet from politics academic Professor Glen O’Hara on the first week of the referendum campaign. Cam + Osbo play high pressure game, high up the pitch. Put oppo under pressure, force them to make mistakes. That's what's happening now. — Glen O'Hara (@gsoh31) April 24, 2016 The reason OUT is so on the defensive at the moment is simply because of the force…
You’ve seen the latest London Mayoral poll – now predict the election in the PB Prize Competition
Although it has been hugely overshadowed by the EURef the London Mayoral election on May 5th is proving to be an interesting battle. Thanks to Mark Hopkins and his NoJam widget we’ve prepared another PB Prize competition. Simple predict the first round shares for the main parties and the overall winner. Remember that the election gives voters two choices. A first choice and what is effectively a second one which only comes into play if their first choice is not…
REMAIN leads drops by 10% in first post-Tusk talks EURef phone poll
New ComRes #EUref phone poll sees sharp drop in REMAIN lead. Now just 8% pic.twitter.com/DQhwRO5LTU — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 15, 2016 The oldies in the ComRes EURef phone poll, those of 65+ splitREMAIN 39%LEAVE 52% — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 15, 2016 ComRes/ITV EURef phone poll finds CON voters split with 45% supporting REMAIN and 48% LEAVE. 70% of GE2015 LAB voters say REMAIN — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 15, 2016 The challenge facing Dave is getting bigger I’ve…
Why Labour lost in 2015
Not even pledges by menhir could help Ed Miliband win a general election pic.twitter.com/7YVLtPG7xp — TSE (@TSEofPB) January 17, 2016 With Corbyn’s personal polling ranging from the calamitous to the cataclysmic it appears Labour are intent on repeating the mistakes of the 2015 general election This week sees two important reports published, firstly the BPC inquiry into why the polls were wrong, then there’s the publication of the report by Dame Margaret Beckett into why Labour lost, parts of Beckett’s…
David Herdson on “Miliband’s leadership landmine”
Whoever wins is likely to be there for the duration There’s something in Ed Miliband of the apocryphal academic who when presented with a result he disapproved of, stated “it might well work in practice but it doesn’t work in theoryâ€. More than once, proposals that Ed Miliband advanced had the look and feel of dealing with the world in abstract rather than the messy and contradictory one we live in. The reforms he initiated to Labour’s leadership process are…
This morning’s MUST READ: the Guardian account of how it all went wrong for LAB/EdM
There’s an extraordinarily comprehensive account by Patrick Wintour in the Guardian this morning of how right up to the moment the exit poll was published at 10pm on May 7th that Ed and his team really believed he was about to become PM. The report opens: “This is the story of how the election defeat came about, based on extensive interviews with many of Miliband’s closest advisers. It is a story of decisions deferred, of a senior team divided, and…