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Two more June 4th predictions

Two more June 4th predictions

What vote share will UKIP get in the Euro election on June 4th? 0 – 8% 9 – 10% 11 – 12% 13 – 14% 15 – 16% 17 – 18% 19 – 20% 21 – 100%    What vote share will the BNP get in the Euro election on June 4th? 0 – 3% 4 – 5% 6 – 7% 8 – 9% 10 – 11% 12 – 13% 14 – 16% 17 – 100%   

Two June 4th prediction surveys

Two June 4th prediction surveys

What will Labour’s GB vote share be in the June 4th Euro Election 0 – 16% 17 – 18% 19 – 20% 21 – 22% 23 – 24% 25 – 26% 27 – 100%    The second poll has now been fixed What will be the turnout across the UK in the June 4th Euro election? 0 – 20% 21 – 25% 26 – 28% 29 – 31% 32 – 35% 36 – 38% 39 – 100%   

An afternoon with Alistair Campbell

An afternoon with Alistair Campbell

What would the great spinner have done about Johnson? This thread has been “prepared earlier” because I’m off to Wembley for the Championship play-off final between my team, Burnley, and Sheffield United. This’ll be the third time that the “Clarets” have played at Wembley since 1962 and I will have been there on every occasion. Burnley’s most well-know supporter is, of course, Alistair Campbell and I’m sure he’ll be amongst the crowds this afternoon as will the town’s MP, the…

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Will the Sunday Express win the first PB Polling Dunce award?

Will the Sunday Express win the first PB Polling Dunce award?

What do we think of this attempt to gauge public opinion? This weekend, the penultimate before the June 4th Euro elections, I am please to announce the launch of PB Polling Dunce award which has been specially designed by Marf. The objective, I hope, is self-explanatory. And our first nominee is the Sunday Express for its piece below on Westminster constituency surveys which were carried out in Salford, Worcester and Basildon and according to the paper the results were very…

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Has the Speaker saved Brown’s bacon?

Has the Speaker saved Brown’s bacon?

Will the election for Speaker prevent a Leadership contest? Michael Martin. Remember him? He used to be Speaker of the House of Commons until he resigned last week. Except of course he didn’t: he’s still there, forgotten but not gone. All he announced was that he would be resigning on June 21. There are some perfectly good reasons for having a delay of four weeks. For one thing, it allows members the opportunity to discuss potential candidates and to give…

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Vote Green to stop the BNP?

Vote Green to stop the BNP?

Has Ben Tallis made a huge mistake? The above video I found courtesy of a friend who directed me to http://www.stopnickgriffin.org – it’s message is clear: Vote Green as the best chance to stop Nick Griffin from being elected. Clearly, this was a compelling argument for at least one person, as Ben Tallis (top of the list for Libertas in the North West) has announced that he is endorsing the Green Party in his region. I think this argument is…

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Should Cameron embrace ‘Better Off Out’?

Should Cameron embrace ‘Better Off Out’?

Will ExpensesGate harden growing Euroscepticism? With the exception of the Guardian’s new ICM poll yesterday, the general trend of the last three weeks has been a fall in major party support, with UKIP being the principle (measurable) beneficiaries. Before the Telegraph began its campaign, I was of the (mainstream) opinion that UKIP would struggle to match their 2004 result, and that the behaviour of some of their members with regards to the ‘EU Gravy Train’ they purported to dispise would…

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Could it be Johnson against Cameron in July?

Could it be Johnson against Cameron in July?

What do we think of Brogan’s scenario? After the the first ousting of a speaker in more than three hundred years then anything is possible I suppose. So what do we think of Ben Brogan’s piece in the Telegraph this morning when he suggests the following? “..Around the Cabinet table, his (Brown) crude politicking provokes despair. There is also frustration at his inability to say whether he plans to punish those who have behaved wrongly. He judged Hazel Blears’s failure…

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