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Peter the Punter: “What about another PBC party?”

Peter the Punter: “What about another PBC party?”

Can you post your views below? Mike has asked me to sound out whether we are ready yet for another Party to celebrate the continued success of the Politcalbetting Site. We don’t need much of an excuse, but Mike giving up the day job and concentrating full time on running the world’s greatest web site seems plenty to me. Last year’s Party/Book Launch was a great success, partly due to the excellent location – The National Liberal Club. Presumably nobody…

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YouGov has Clegg leading Huhne by 56%-44%

YouGov has Clegg leading Huhne by 56%-44%

Why PBC is breaking the embargo A YouGov poll of 678 Lib Dem party members that will be released later this evening by Sky News has Nick Clegg beating Chris Huhne by 56% to 44% in the membership ballot. But the race could still be close because 52% of those questioned have not voted yet only 52% of those questioned had already voted and 24% said they were undecided. The pollster built up a good reputation for party membership polls…

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Tories take 9% lead with Ipsos-MORI

Tories take 9% lead with Ipsos-MORI

The Lib Dems jump 4 points Ipsos-Mori has just released its latest poll which follows the recent YouGov and ComRes surveys and shows a big increase in the Conservative lead. The shares, with comparisons on the last survey almost a month ago shows CON 41% (+1): LAB 32% (-3): LD 17% (+4). The survey was carried out by phone from November 23rd-27th so would have caught the first part of Labour’s dodgy donations scandal. The Tories will be delighted that…

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Sean Fear’s Friday Slot

Sean Fear’s Friday Slot

The Contest for Luton One of Anthony Wells’ contributors described Luton as “to be frank, a dump.” Having recently moved there, I’d have to say that while that is probably a fair description of what must be the most badly designed town centre, anywhere in the Home Counties, it’s not a fair description of an entire town of nearly 200,000 people. There is a great deal of good private housing around Wardown Park, Stopsley, the Old and New Bedford Roads,…

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It’s 9/4 that Harriet will be out by the end of the year

It’s 9/4 that Harriet will be out by the end of the year

Is that a value bet or not? The above picture is a screen-shot from a TV interview Harriet gave within hours of the news coming out of the £5000 donation to her deputy campaign from David Abraham via a proxy. That was a couple of days ago when the stress was clearly showing. Since then Brown has hardly given her the ringing endorsement that she surely could have hoped for from her boss. Today, in her role as leader of…

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Will Vince over-shadow whoever wins?

Will Vince over-shadow whoever wins?

How can the winner possibly do better than Cable? With the Lib Dem leadership contest coming into its final phase could the party be facing a big challenge when the new man gets elected and takes his place at Prime Minister’s Questions? For after another rivetting performance by Cable this lunchtime it’s hard to see how either Clegg or Huhne are going to be able to do anything like as well. The biggest laughs today came with Cable’s comment about…

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Lib Dem ICM figure confirmed at 21%

Lib Dem ICM figure confirmed at 21%

What’s going to happen in the end month poll rush? It’s been frustrating weekend for Lib Dem poll watchers keen to see if their recovery is continuing. First we had the confusion in the Guardian on Saturday over the size of their share. Then we had yesterday’s BPIX poll in the MoS which failed to mention the Lib Dem total. I haven’t been able to solve the latter but the boss of ICM, Nick Sparrow, has emailed me about his…

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