Home of the web’s best political conversation Why not relax, and converse into the night on the day’s events in PB NightHawks. If you’re a lurker, and if like me, have politics Always on my mind or if you have a Burning Love for betting, why not delurk tonight. We don’t want a Little Less Conversation, we want more, so please delurk The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant…
When I questioned Populus boss, Rick Nye, about his Friday poll he said we’d need to wait until Monday see if it was an outlier or not. Well today’s poll is just out and we’ve got our answer. The numbers are very much back in line with all the other Populus online polls since the series was started last month. As Nate Silver has observed the test of an honest pollster is whether they get the occasional outlier which should…
Lynton Crosby said to be planning covert war against UKIP http://t.co/x5bXb2Z0Zq pic.twitter.com/2K8msVB726 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 5, 2013 Is he going to survive all the way to GE2015? For me the most interesting political story of the weekend was the Sunday Times piece, linked to in the Tweet above, about his planned covert operation to undermine UKIP. The idea is to launch what the report describes as “a “below-the-radar†operation to undermine UKIP politicians by catching them making embarrassing comments”….
By a reasonable margin there is support for fracking We do believe that it will be damaging to the envoronment We don’t want it in our back yard
The above netted off figures are based on these more detailed numbers. There were, as it turned out only two polls overnight, and the findings that I am highlighting are the party and leader favourability figures from Survation for the Mail on Sunday. These show, I’d suggest, the biggest challenges facing both the blue and red teams just 21 months before GE2015. Labour’s weak link is its leader while the big drag on Cameron is the Conservative party itself. These…
Labour's new candidate in Broxtowe rallies the troops @broxtowelabour @NickPalmerMP pic.twitter.com/0PnF5r4Dq5 — Andy Furlong (@FurlongA) August 3, 2013 It was back in 2004, only a few months after PB was launched, that Labour’s Nick Palmer (he’s the man in the suit in the pic) became the first sitting MP to post on the site under his own name. He’s been posting ever since and has been a regular at PB events. At the last election I know that a number…
If he can do for CON a fraction of what he did for Obama it could be decisive
Is the immigration debate symptomatic of a larger problem? The furore that has blown up among those who’ve noticed the two news stories connected to immigration this week is a good example of the problems the Conservatives face in winning an outright majority at the next election. On one level, the challenge is not too difficult, despite the boundary review not being completed. If the economy continues to recover, with either living standards improving or at least the prospect of…