The big EURef advertising news is that the Saatchis are back

The big EURef advertising news is that the Saatchis are back

  Saathci & Saatchi ad GE1979 Roger’s latest advertising commentary on the campaign ‘Facts aren’t important. What matters is what the public believes’ I noticed last week that Peter Marsh had died. He was a larger than life self publicist and showman and unlike most advertisers who believed in letting their work sell the agency he believed that selling himself sold the work. A big fan of Thatcher his agency was the fastest growing in the 80’s. His ads were recognisable…

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How LEAVE responds to authority interventions that it doesn’t like

How LEAVE responds to authority interventions that it doesn’t like

Alastair Meeks goes through them one by one Authority figure Intervention Leave response OECD Leaving the EU was “equivalent to missing out on one month’s income within four years”. On a central scenario it estimated that the uncertainty caused by Britain seeking to leave the EU by late 2018 would knock 3 per cent off gross domestic product by 2020. Robert Oxley, Vote Leave spokesman:”The OECD is in the pay of the EU. JoséÁngelGurríais part of a global bureaucracy that…

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Vote LEAVE is naive if it thinks it can black-ball Farage for the entire campaign

Vote LEAVE is naive if it thinks it can black-ball Farage for the entire campaign

BBC News list of events planned so far And Cameron isn’t going face to face with a fellow Tory So far we haven’t seen any betting markets linked to the referendum TV debates but that’s likely to happen as this becomes a bigger issue following the Vote Leave reaction to the ITV event planned for June 9th. This is when Farage and Cameron are due to appear in the same programme although they won’t debate directly with each other. Clearly…

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Sentence first, verdict later. Rushing to judgement over BHS

Sentence first, verdict later. Rushing to judgement over BHS

Sir Philip Green potentially makes for a good pantomime villain.  He has never gone out of his way to charm the public and he has contacts in elite political circles.  His wealth is fabulous and flaunted.  His tax management strategies have blazed across the front pages of the newspapers.  And now his former flagship company BHS has gone bust, leaving a pension scheme that is half a billion pounds short, and he has taken large dividends from the company over…

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Exactly six weeks to go to the day that Britain decides on its future in Europe

Exactly six weeks to go to the day that Britain decides on its future in Europe

The polling, however, has been reduced to a fizzle After a period when referendum polls were coming out almost everyday there’s suddenly been a lull in the number of polls being published. It is now May 12th and just three surveys have come out where the fieldwork has taken place in May. All of them have been online. The last phone poll was completed on April 26th. Hopefully this is a temporary interruption caused by last week’s range of elections…

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Following the SNPs loss of its Holyrood majority last week ex-party boss Salmond says the voting system unfair

Following the SNPs loss of its Holyrood majority last week ex-party boss Salmond says the voting system unfair

Alex Salmond, whose SNP lost its Holyrood majority last week, moans about the unfairness of voting system. https://t.co/QPxrOSR3S2 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) May 11, 2016 This from a party that got 56 of Scotland 59 Westminster seats last year on 50% of the vote

Guest Post: Summer 2016 might lead to a generational shift in the two main parties

Guest Post: Summer 2016 might lead to a generational shift in the two main parties

Guest Post by Mortimer Summer 2016 could prove a watershed moment in modern British politics. April and early-May have already seen the incumbent leadership of the English Conservatives shown up in comparison to Ruth Davidson’s success north of the border, and the old guard of an apparently gaffe-obsessed Labour Party cheered by victory in London yet criticised by the triumphant Sadiq Khan. More pressure on the Conservative leadership is likely if, as the polls currently indicate, the referendum on June…

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