But would the outcome have been different with AV? When voting in the PB Poster of the Year election closed at bang on 5am Plato had just one more vote than Antifrank and I declare her the winner. The final vote which enabled her to nose ahead was cast at 4.57am. Well down to her and all the others who took part. Thanks also to those who voted. Plato is our first female Poster of the Year and is one…
Why are punters moving away from Labour? As one or two people reported on the previous thread there’s been a lot of movement this evening on the Old & Sad market on the Betfair betting exchange. The above screen shot was taken at 2148 and shows that the last price traded on Labour was 0.58/1. A week ago it was at 0.18/1. At the same time the price on the Lib Dems has moved in sharply. The question is whether…
What happened to Osborne’s Fair Fuel Stabiliser? Two years ago, George Osborne launched a consultation on reform of Fuel Duty, with the aims of mitigating petrol prices when the they were high, keeping government revenue roughly neutral and providing greater certainty for motorists, business and government alike. We’ve not heard much of it since. That’s a shame because motorists are currently being hit by a triple whammy that’s pushed petrol up to record levels and will increase it still further….
Can it match the surprises of 2010? Goodbye to 2010 then, a year that saw more that its fair share of turn-ups. How many of us would have predicted that there’d be a Con-LD coalition government running the country? Who’d have been brave enough to predict Ed Miliband would be leading Labour? Would any of us have foreseen that during the year the Lib Dems would have polled either a first place – ahead of both the Tories and Labour, following…
Which of the following should go through to the final short-list for PB Poster of the Year? You can vote for as many as you wish. SETH O’LOGUE YOKEL TED SEA SHANTY IRISH JAMES KELLY RICHARD TYNDALL STH LONDON NICK PLATO TIM EXUENT OMNES LONDON STATTO EDMUND IN TOKYO ROD CROSBY FLUFFY THOUGHTS WAGE SLAVE TIMT SURBITON AVE IT MORRIS DANCER STJOHN ORACLE MY BURNING EARS YELLOW SUBMARINE ANTIFRANK PENNDU PATRICK NICK PALMER XXXXX HENRYG LUCIAN FLETCHER Voting will…
Cameron – The years of Big Society? You cannot just speak with a passion, but without sense or proportion. You need intellectual basis to your arguments in order to win the electorate to them through slogans and ideas wire tapped into that intellectual base. Without intellectual basis sold to electorate, danger is the Cameron government will ruin its electoral prospects as into ideological void voters instead identify this government as obsessing with price tags, not understanding the value of the…
Who will you nominate for the site’s annual award? Every year since the site began we have run an election for the “Poster of the Year” when lurkers and commenters can decide who has added most to our discussions over the past twelve months. The process is in three stages. At this stage we are seeking nominations. Who do you think should we should be including on the list of possibles? Can you use the thread below to make your…
Does an ageing electorate add to the challenge for the reds? One of the stories carried by several papers this morning is the projection by the Department for Work and Pensions that almost a fifth of Britons will live to 100. This is all based on population trends that point to about half a million people a year celebrating their 100th birthday by 2066, compared with about 10,000 now. But this is not just a long-term development. The figures suggest…