Is this smart or just cheap?
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Labour still languishing on 24% with ComRes
CON 40%(-1) LAB 24%(nc) LD 21%(+3) The Tory vote seems to be the most solid After the spate of YouGov online surveys it’s good to have a poll from a firm that operates in a totally different manner. ComRes, is a phone pollster with past vote weighting but unlike YouGov does filter its data by certainty to vote. In the past I have had issues with ComRes but adjustments were made to their methodology in June and I’m happy with…
Could a voting reform referendum save Brown?
Is this the way to get Lib Dems to support Labour? There are poll findings out this morning from the Electoral Reform Society which might just offer a glimmer of hope to Brown Central in its bid for Labour not to be annihilated in the coming general election. For the response to questions bolted onto last week’s Sun YouGov poll seem to suggest that a promise of a referendum on voting reform might influence some voters – particularly those planning…
Lib Dem set-back in new Scottish YouGov poll
You has the SNP continuing to progress One thing that the release by the SNP government of the Lockerbie bomber has sparked off is a spate of Scottish polling and most of it has been carried out by YouGov. The latest numbers, which I am told are a PB exclusive, focus not on views of the decision to release the mass murderer but the latest on voting intentions for the next Scottish parliament elections in 2011. The poll was commissioned…
So could there be an October coup?
Guardian What do we think of Kettle’s Friday column? If you thought that all the issues over the Labour leadership are now history and that Brown will lead the party into the next election then check out Martin Kettle in the Guardian. He writes:“….An active network of MPs and peers now exists, involving some names you might expect, but also others – including big ones – whose participation would surprise you. This group, like probably the majority of Labour MPs,…
Joyce: Minor irritant or major problem?
Channel 4 News What’ll be the impact of the resignation? It’s quite hard to assess the impact of tonight’s resignation of defence minister Eric Joyce. Will this get buried in all the other political news that’s about or could it damage Mr. Brown who has become so associated with the Afghan strategy. The challenge for Number 10 is that his reasons go to the heart of how the PM is presenting his case. This is from Joyce’s letter: “…As you…
Will the Tory EPP withdrawal derail Lisbon?
What are the mechanics of the next nine months? Ireland’s second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty will take place on 2 October. Assuming it’s passed what happens next could have consequences for the UK election. Three other countries have yet to ratify. In Germany there’s a legal challenge to the Constitutional Court and secondly – and as a result of the ruling from that challenge – the need to amend some domestic legislation. That is currently scheduled to be done…
Is it worth a punt on Farage?
Ladbrokes have him at 4/1 to beat Bercow.