BBC Could the red team just lost some of the Ginger vote? As the father of two children who were bullied at school because of their ginger hair I am beside myself with fury at Harriet Harman’s nasty attack on Danny Alexander as being a “ginger rodent”. By all means get into an argument on the issues but to use an inherited bodily characteristic to attack someone smacks of racism – which is even more outrageous given Harriet’s record in…
The red team continues to make progress Party Votes Cast % Votes Seats Won Change Labour 17714 35.69% 14 +5 Conservatives 14594 29.41% 10 -3 Liberal Democrats 10139 20.43% 6 -1 Independents 2181 4.39% 2 -1 Plaid Cymru 1297 2.61% 0 -1 Green Party 1139 2.30% 0 n/c United Kingdom Independence Party 771 1.55% 0 n/c Scottish National Party 571 1.15% 0 n/c British National Party 183 0.37% 0 n/c Other Parties 1037 2.09% 2 1 GAINS / LOSSES Conservative…
Google News search -“Ed Miliband” Is visibility always the problem when you are opposition leader? On the face of it yesterday was a pretty bad news day for the coalition. There was Boris and “call me Dave” having their huge public spat over housing benefit, a suggestion that the child benefit move for higher rate tax-payers might be a lot harder to achieve than was first thought, and the PM fighting a tough battle in the EU. Yet the main…
Enter this evening’s quickie competition The publishers of the Kavanagh/Cowley General Election 2010 book have given PB a copy for a competition prize. So can you guess the numbers in tonight’s YouGov daily poll which will be out at 10pm. Please post on the thread giving the shares for the three main parties and the government approval/disapproval figures. The competition will be decided by who is the least wrong. So if you have CON 41: LAB 38: LD11 and 41%…
Is the plan a big bang rather than a dribble? We all know that a key part of the coalition’s electoral reform package is to reduce the commons from the current 650 seats to 600 all apart from one or two of the same size. What I understand tonight is that next September there’s going to be a big announcement when the boundaries of all the new seats will be revealed all at once. Until now the process has been…
Poll/publication End date CON (%) LAB (%) LD (%) ICM/Guardian 24/10/10 39 36 16 ICM/NOTW 22/10/10 40 36 16 ICM/Sunday Telegraph 07/10/10 38 34 18 ICM/Guardian 29/09/10 35 37 18 ICM/Guardian 15/08/10 37 37 18 ICM/Guardian 25/07/10 38 34 19 ICM/Sunday Telegraph 24/06/10 41 35 16 ICM/Guardian 20/06/10 39 31 21 ICM/Guardian 23/05/10 39 32 21 ICM/Sunday Telegraph 13/05/10 38 33 21 Opposition to the cuts doesn’t seem to be affecting voting intention The first of two telephone polls that…
But will they ever learn – WE WANT THE FECKING NUMBERS The BBC has this afternoon apologised for the total Horlicks it made of its spacial programme on Saturday September 25th when the results in Labour’s leadership election were being announced. It will be recalled that some cretin decided it was smarter to have Nick Robinson talk over the announcement of what was a complex set of numbers coming, as it turned out to entirely the wrong conclusion. Robinson should…
Could Old & Sad upset the good relations? After a week in which the coalition has broadly withstood what has probably been its biggest test it’s inevitable that speculation has resumed over the partnership continuing after the next election. This has been fuelled by comments said to have been made in private by Francis Maude suggesting that the coalition should continue even if the Tories won a majority. Ex-Tory front bencher and now ConHome writer, Paul Goodman, has made his…