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How are the Lib Dem “anti-Tories” going to view this?

How are the Lib Dem “anti-Tories” going to view this?

PoliticsHome 76% of Lib Dem voters want more collaboration with Tories The panel above summarises findings from the latest PoliticsHome poll on attitudes by supporters of the main parties to the collaboration that we saw on Wednesday between the Lib Dems and the Conservatives over the Ghurka issue. The precise question that was “Yesterday the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives voted together to defeat the government in a House of Commons vote on whether Gurkhas should be allowed to settle…

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Should Clegg have shared his big moment?

Should Clegg have shared his big moment?

Click here to watch Was it a mistake to allow Dave to muscle in? Some interesting debate on the previous thread over whether Nick Clegg was right to allow Cameron to be part of his big moment in the immediate aftermath of yesterday afternoon’s vote. Ben Brogan in his Telegraph blog was no doubt about its significance and ran a piece under the heading “A picture that changes politics?”. He went on about Clegg: “.. His willingness to share the…

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Could we see a CON-LD pincher movement on Labour?

Could we see a CON-LD pincher movement on Labour?

Harry Hayfield asks: Could it be 1997 in reverse? One of the striking things about Election 1997 was the pincher movement that Labour and the Liberal Democrats performed on the Conservatives as tactical voting happened on a scale never seen before (or as electors knew it “Vote for the candidate most likely to defeat the Conservative!”). Today we saw a pincher movement by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats in Westminster which made 55 Labour MP’s vote against the government…

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Has Nick Clegg at last found his voice?

Has Nick Clegg at last found his voice?

What are his party’s general election prospects? This will be a day for the Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg, to savour. For in all the time that he’s been leader this is the first occasion when he came out of PMQs as the clear winner. The anger and ferocity of his attack on Brown for Labour’s inflexible stance on the Ghurka issue hit home on all sides of the house and acted as a good trailer for this afternoon’s debate,…

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What about the 6/4 on the Tories at Eastleigh?

What about the 6/4 on the Tories at Eastleigh?

PoliticsHome Marginals Survey September 2008 The PH polls says it’s a Tory gain – so why the long odds? Ever since general election constituency betting started in earnest I’ve been cross-referencing the available markets with last September’s Politics Home Marginals poll which surveyed more than 38,000 voters in 238 different seats. My hunt has been for value bets – good odds on a party named in the survey as the likely winner where perhaps the PH prediction is not the…

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82% of Lib Dem voters say “It’s time for change”

82% of Lib Dem voters say “It’s time for change”

..and only 18% want to stick with Labour The Lib Dems were delighted on Tuesday when the latest Guardian ICM poll had them at 20% – well above the shares from other pollsters including, on that very day, just 14% with Ipsos-MORI. But I wonder how many in the party, particularly those at the top who occasionally give the impression that they are politics primarily because they hate the Tories, are going to view responses from those same LD supporters…

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The March 2009 PB Prediction – the outcome

The March 2009 PB Prediction – the outcome

Voting in the PB March 2009 Prediction closed at 6pm and above are the charts showing the number of seats site users believe each of the parties will get at the election. In retrospect I think that we tried to do too much and perhaps ought to have just left it with the three polls featured above. For it was noticeable how voting dropped off as you went down the page. The first survey on election party leaders attracted nearly…

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Should David Laws take a polling history lesson?

Should David Laws take a polling history lesson?

Click here to watch Why’s the LD schools spokesman getting it so wrong? You’ll have to indulge me if you think I’ve banged on about this too much – but I have a real “bee in my bonnet” about the phoney invalid polling comparisons that journos, pundits and politicians are rushing to make when they compare the polling position at the moment with what went on in 1996/97. And the person who has got under my skin this afternoon is…

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