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And now the Choccy Horror Show!

And now the Choccy Horror Show!

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Could the Mirror’s splash damage the Tories? Thanks to one or two contributors on the overnight thread for picking up this – the main story in the Mirror . For after a day which saw Gordon Brown at his most confident for months the paper’s exclusive, presumably from publicly available material, is that amongst the receipts in Cameron’s claims were those for four or five chocolate bars. These were under Cameron’s claims for his administrative and office allowance As the…

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Will day-time counts mean we have to rely more on this?

Will day-time counts mean we have to rely more on this?

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Is the wise strategy not to bet on exit polls? If there is a huge increase in the number of day-time counts, as many are predicting, then the general election exit poll is going to become even more important. For its projections will be what will dominate perceptions of the election for several hours and maybe into the following morning. Arrangements, I understand, have been made for just one such survey to be mounted which will feed all the main…

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Is Labour coming out worse from this than the Tories?

Is Labour coming out worse from this than the Tories?

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Telegraph How’s it going to affect the party political battle? My first reaction when I saw the front page of this morning’s Telegraph was, I guess, hardly unique – what was the political affiliation of the six who appear to form the next stage of the ongoing expenses saga? For until the election is over and the votes are counted we are going to be in a high-octane political atmosphere as the Tories sense victory and Labour tries to hold…

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Is this what Cameron gets for abandoning the referendum?

Is this what Cameron gets for abandoning the referendum?

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What will it do to the political climate? One of the things that we see repeatedly is that it’s often not the numbers in polls that matter but how the findings are covered in the media that has commissioned them. So on a morning when the Guardian is reporting its ICM poll with a sharp cut-back in the Tory lead the big slant is about “Cameron closing the deal“. This is based on non-voting questions about how respondents rated him…

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Could Cameron lose the Battle of Swaffam?

Could Cameron lose the Battle of Swaffam?

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“Sorry, no, I have never said I’m anti-women. I have got absolutely nothing against women. Who cooks my lunch? Who cooks my dinner? How did my wonderful three children appear? Women, you can’t do without them. My god, take my wife.” What does she do for a living? “What does she do? She looks after me. Looks after the children. Runs the house.” The above is attributed to SW Norfolk Tory big-wig, Sir Jeremy Bagge, in a Telegraph interview by…

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Could Oborne’s programme help the Lib Dems in Watford?

Could Oborne’s programme help the Lib Dems in Watford?

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Channel 4 What’ll it do to the top seat betting market? Word reaches me that Channel 4’s Dispatches programme tomorrow night might be helpful to the the Lib Dems in Watford – the constituency which, according to Ladbrokes, has seen the heaviest general election betting. I have not got any details whatsoever but we know that Oborne never gets involved with stuff that is run of the mill. Watford is currently Labour-held but with both the Tories and Lib Dems…

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Does the Daily Mirror still have much influence?

Does the Daily Mirror still have much influence?

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Daily Mirror October 10th 1974 – Wikimedia Commons Can it get more votes out for Brown’s party? When I started my journalistic career in 1968 the paper ambitious young graduates aspired to work for was the Mirror. It had a circulation topping four million and until the arrival of Murdoch’s Sun was the biggest selling paper in the UK. It had built up a great reputation for covering serious serious stories in a popular manner and certainly had a big…

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Is Number 10 making the letter row worse?

Is Number 10 making the letter row worse?

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Should Mandy have avoided the attack on the Sun? Paul Waugh makes a valid point on his Evening Standard blog that the way Number 10 is dealing with the letter of condolence issue could be causing more damage. He writes: “We now have not just Peter Mandelson, but also housing minister Ian Austin claiming that this is all about The Sun’s decision to back the Tories.. First, the Prince of Darkness said that the tabloid’s story had to be seen…

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