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Memories of Thatcher could make it harder for Tories to win in the North

Memories of Thatcher could make it harder for Tories to win in the North

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RT @rufusjones1: Margaret Thatcher’s Yeast Extract. twitter.com/rufusjones1/st… — Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) April 12, 2013 Henry G Manson on the Mrs. Thatcher aftermath One of the Conservative Party’s secret weapons to winning more votes in the North of England is a young man called David Skelton. Skelton is from the North East and has an impeccable feel for the North in a way few Conservative strategists do. This was demonstrated in an article for Labour List last year explaining why Ed…

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More than two decades after leaving Downing Street and in the week of her demise the country is still totally split over Mrs. Thatcher

More than two decades after leaving Downing Street and in the week of her demise the country is still totally split over Mrs. Thatcher

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Even over her funeral Mrs. Thatcher continues to divide the nation. See pie chart from Survation/Mirror poll. twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 11, 2013 If this polling is right Dave might have misread the public mood According to newspaper reports this morning there’s been a huge row between Number 10 and the speaker, John Bercow, over Mrs. Thatcher. Bercow didn’t want the recall of parliament or the changing of the parliamentary time-table for next Wednesday – the day of…

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TSE on Thatcher

TSE on Thatcher

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    I was only twelve when Lady Thatcher was replaced as Tory Leader and Prime Minister, I remember my mother being particularly happy at the news. Growing up in 1980s South Yorkshire, I was used to hearing abusive things said about Margaret Thatcher, particularly in the aftermath of the miners’ strike. But as some of you may have guessed, those things didn’t have a lasting effect on me or my views on Lady Thatcher. She set the benchmark that…

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Boris Johnson for PM polling? He was overstated by all 6 pollsters in final surveys ahead of May 2012 mayoral race

Boris Johnson for PM polling? He was overstated by all 6 pollsters in final surveys ahead of May 2012 mayoral race

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Great Boris Private Eye cover that’ll become a classic if ever he does become CONleader/PM.via @hendopolis twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 4, 2013 Remember how Ken ran him so close? Just before the Easter weekend we reported on a new YouGov poll that had a Boris-led Tory party level pegging with an EdM LAB one when the named leader voting intention question was put. This caused something of a stir and was in line with similar polling at the…

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ConHome’s Paul Goodman says the Tories should unilaterally end the coalition in Sept 2014

ConHome’s Paul Goodman says the Tories should unilaterally end the coalition in Sept 2014

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Paul Goodman & Mike Smithson slug it out on Twitter The @paulgoodmanch call for the Tories to end coalition in Sept 2014. goo.gl/1X8bz twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 3, 2013 @msmithsonpb Suppose neither of us will be around to see the play in 2053 – about the shambles of the Coalition’s last 6 months… — Paul Goodman (@PaulGoodmanCH) April 3, 2013 @msmithsonpb In both party’s interests to end Coalition before April 2015 – and not in Miliband’s to accept…

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The Tories take to Twitter in an ingenious “poster” campaign

The Tories take to Twitter in an ingenious “poster” campaign

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The Tories have launched a Twitter poster campaign using 6 Budget plans.Not sure that Aspiration Nation quite works twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 21, 2013 Another of the Tory Twitter posters based on a Budget proposal -this on the help for new home buyers twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 21, 2013 Will George’s budget be a narrative changer? Featured above are 2 of 6 Tory Twitter ads that have been issued overnight. This is quite an interesting way…

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Henry G Manson on Friday

Henry G Manson on Friday

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Theresa May in the Commons twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 15, 2013 Hello all: I hate the new Disqus as much as you do. I will be actively looking for a new alternative. Please bear with us until we find one. Thanks, Robert Has Theresa May forgotten her pledges to the disabled? Theresa May has been burnishing her right wing credentials in recent weeks. Predictably the right wing press has lapped up promises to withdraw from the Human Rights…

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Miserable night for the Tories as rock-solid council seats in Surrey and Sussex fall to Ukip and the LDs

Miserable night for the Tories as rock-solid council seats in Surrey and Sussex fall to Ukip and the LDs

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Cracking result in Runnymead DC, Chris Browne of @ukip pick up Foxhills District Council seat, by 18 votes overturning a 23% Tory Majority — Gawain Towler (@GawainTowler) March 15, 2013 #LibDem destroy a 1000 Tory majority to take the #Arun district Aldwick east seat in today’s by election for the first time @libdemnews — Cllr. Jamie Bennett (@JamieBen120689) March 15, 2013 Could May’s county elections could be a bloodbath? After yesterday’s dreadful national polls for the Conservatives there’s news overnight…

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