Labour need to stop piling up votes in their safe English seats Looking at the chart above we can see that in England Labour did best where it didn’t need to and the Tories did best where they did need to do well. In England overall there was a swing of 1.1% from the Tories to Labour but in the crucial battle ground of the fifty most marginal Tory held seats there was a swing of 0.9% FROM Labour to…
New @Survation poll finds http://t.co/8CH18fSuc8 pic.twitter.com/l0epD5my57 — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 12, 2015 New @Survation poll finds (part II) http://t.co/8CH18fSuc8 pic.twitter.com/6holD3qUHC — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 12, 2015 Survation have carried out a poll for the Mail on Sunday and it finds Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to be Prime Minister and most voters are less likely to vote Labour at the next General Election with him as leader. Many believe his victory means Labour will lose the next TWO elections. That is the…
The results are in and the winner is David. Many congratulations on your victory. Mike Smithson will contact you on how to claim your prize. Many thanks are due to Mark Hopkins of Nojam for creating the  competition widget and to William Hill for providing the competition prize. The summary of results is available by clicking here The full spreadsheet of entries is available by clicking here. TSE
Corbyn wins on the first ballot with a higher share of the vote than Blair did in 1994 pic.twitter.com/upXinPwvKo — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 12, 2015 Tom Watson wins the deputy leadership on the third round of voting. pic.twitter.com/HnaOro0Wg2 — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 12, 2015 His 59.5% is higher than the 57% Blair received in 1994 All those Burnham supporters that lent Corbyn some nominations to make it on to the ballot paper to see a broader debate will be feeling…
Will Labour’s winner have a clear mandate? 2015 hasn’t been the happiest of years for Labour. They have had worse ones – 1931, perhaps – but it’s still been a bit of a shocker. Today’s leadership election result ought to close that chapter and open a new and more hopeful one. Unfortunately for those desperate to put the Miliband era behind them, that may not be the case. The irregularities of the leadership election, where many members and supporters haven’t…
But how now to survive in the Social Media age? Jedward may not, on the face of it, have much in common with Jeremy Corbyn. One is an irritating novelty act, swept up in a collective wave of public enthusiasm to a prominence far beyond which natural ability alone would justify; the other is an Irish pop duo. Ba-dum-tish. Unfair? Of course: Jedward mostly hit the right note. And so the jokes go on. This summer might have been witness…
I am deeply humbled that so many Londoners have put their faith in me today. Together, we can change London. pic.twitter.com/COQpcJrU55 — Sadiq Khan MP (@SadiqKhan) September 11, 2015 Just ask Lynton Crosby. Winning the London mayoralty is all about getting your own supporters out to vote in an an election that has struggled in the past to attract turnout levels of more than 40%. In early August there was some interesting pulling from Survation which got very little attention….
Leith Walk on Edinburgh (SNP and Green defence) Result: SNP 2,290 (36% +7%), Labour 1,623 (26% -7%), Green Party 1,381 (22% +2%), Conservative 501 (8% unchanged), Liberal Democrats 255 (4% -1%), UKIP 102 (2%, no candidate in 2012), Scottish Socialists 97 (2%, no candidate in 2012), Left Unity 32 (1%, no candidate in 2012), Independent 26 (0% -3%), Libertarian 17 (0%, no candidate in 2012) SNP HOLD on the first count, Labour GAIN from Green on the tenth…