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Is this what happens when the world thinks you are a loser?

Is this what happens when the world thinks you are a loser?

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Would his plan have gone through if his ratings were better? The key impact that opinion polls have is not in predicting the general election but in setting the whole back-cloth for the way current politics is conducted. So is this how we should explain the lack of support for Mr. Brown’s tax plan from other leading countries at yesterday’s meeting of G20 finance minister? If Brown looked set to continue in office for the next five years then his…

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What’s the 2010 campaign going to look like?

What’s the 2010 campaign going to look like?

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Wikimedia Commons What’ll be the messages that chime with the voters? While we wait to see if the Sunday papers have any polls or sensational developments I thought it might be useful to ponder on what the coming campaign is going to look like. What are the messages the parties will try to get over and what is going to resonate with voters. This will be the first election since 1997 1987 when the Tories are likely to start the…

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Truss & Kirkbride: Twin Tory Troubles in Prospect?

Truss & Kirkbride: Twin Tory Troubles in Prospect?

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Are local parties threatening Cameron’s remodelling? In South West Norfolk, the selected Tory candidate faces deselection, the stated reason being the non-disclosure of an affair from some years back; in Bromsgrove, the sitting Tory MP has changed her mind about standing down at the election and now wishes to contest the seat. Apart from both being political fallout from the Expenses Scandal, the two stories could damage the Tory party, especially when taken together, and both concern events around local…

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Will Brown’s “serve full term promise” help his chances?

Will Brown’s “serve full term promise” help his chances?

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Daily Record And what about his election “tip”? Interesting interview with Gordon Brown in the Daily Record this morning. The paper reports: “.DEFIANT Gordon Brown yesterday insisted Labour CAN upset the odds and win the next general election..The Prime Minister said he was still “the man for the job” and is convinced that when the country comes out of recession, voters will return Labour to power for a historic fourth term..If he is re-elected to Downing Street, Brown pledged to…

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YouGov now have a 14 point Tory lead

YouGov now have a 14 point Tory lead

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CON 41%(nc) LAB 27%(-1) LD 17%(+1) And 73% want the troops out of Afghanistan A new 1,021 sample YouGov poll for Channel 4 where the fieldwork took place yesterday and today has a slightly increased Tory lead the result of Labour slipping a notch to 27% and the Lib Dems increasing by one point. The total for “others” is at 16% but we do not know what the breakdown of that figure is. Even the detailed data released this evening…

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What’s the next set of polls going to show?

What’s the next set of polls going to show?

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Will the Lisbon compromise mean the Tories are up or down? It’s welcome back to PB’s cartoonist, Marf, with a new drawing this afternoon neatly linking linking the Tory polling position with all the publicity about the plinth in Trafalgar Square. For the next round of surveys, including the latest exclusive poll for PB from Angus Reid Strategies, might set key pointers to the eventual general election outcome. Will the Cameron switch on the Lisbon referendum, as Labour hopes, lead…

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Is Cameron’s Lisbon luck continuing?

Is Cameron’s Lisbon luck continuing?

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BBC news What a terrible day for UKIP for this to come out? On the day after the Tory change of heart on the Lisbon referendum the anti-EU party that did so well last June, UKIP, must have been hoping for better headlines than this. This was the opportunity, surely, for them to be presenting themselves as an alternative to Cameron’s Tories. And what happens? We get the news from Southwark Crown court and UKIP has to deal with terrible…

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Should you take the 3/1 on Miliband for “High Representative”

Should you take the 3/1 on Miliband for “High Representative”

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Politics.co.uk Would this mean a by-election in South Shields? There’s a story runnnig, which appears to be an exclusive, on the Politics.co.uk website suggesting that David Miliband has accepted” the top EU foreign affairs role that he was being tipped and, indeed, is current favourite in the betting. Well done to Wibbler on the previous thread for the spot. According to the site’s Emmeline Saunders the information has come from “a Labour source” and that this could all be announced…

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