Attention Mark Carney: Marf has some further suggestions for who should be on future banknotes
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How a minor change to the electoral system could stop Farage’s party from topping the polls in next year’s Euro elections?
Simply switch from the closed to an open list voting system There’s an intriguing move developing that could lead to a change in the way the EU elections are carried out resulting in an electoral system that’s less UKIP friendly. A report just out from the LSE for the Electoral Reform Society suggests that UKIP’s chances in next year’s EU elections could be seriously undermined if an “open list” voting system was used rather than, as at the moment, the…
Night hawks is now open
Home of the web’s best political conversation If you’ve been working Nine to Five, or longer, why not relax, and converse into the night on the day’s events in PB NightHawks. If you’re a lurker,  why not delurk tonight. The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant story) Michael Gove ‘convinced’ of Conservative victory in 2015 election George Osborne accused of bowing to City pressure Anthony Weiner and his weiner are…
The Marf Royal Baby series – This afternoon’s instalment
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The NHS is to the Tories what immigration is to Labour – a policy area they can’t win. Better to move on
Can the Tories ever win on the NHS? – The YouGov best party tracker pic.twitter.com/Kim189k5BB — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) July 24, 2013 Can Labour ever win on immigration? – The YouGov best party tracker pic.twitter.com/grMqb6Esad — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) July 24, 2013 The best strategy is to steer the debate on to areas of strength A week, as Harold Wilson used to say, is a long in politics and just seven days ago the Tories felt they were on to…
Marf on the speculation about the name
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LAB lead amongst Unite members jumps 14 to 26 percent
The views of Unite members on key policy issues according to today's @LordAshcroft poll pic.twitter.com/caVYxPux9t — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) July 23, 2013 There’s a new Michael Ashcroft poll of Unite members covering voting intention and issues associated with union funding. Like other Ashcroft polls we don’t know the pollster but my guess is that it is YouGov which built up a reasonable size base of union members for its leadership polling in 2007 and 2010. The voting intention shares, seen…
The Tories get to within 3 percent in tonight’s YouGov poll
LAB lead down to just 3% in latest YouGov/Sun poll Lab 38 Con 35 LD 11 UKIP 10. — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) July 22, 2013 Tonight's 3% LAB YouGov lead is the smallest since March 2012 – before Osborne's budget — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) July 22, 2013 Are the Tories closing in on Labour in tonight's polling? No way of knowing if your methodology arbitrarily reduces UKIP support… — Damian Lyons Lowe (@DamianSurvation) July 22, 2013 According to Electoral Calculus…