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, why not delurk tonight, It Would Be So Nice if some of you delurked, I have High Hopes that some of you become Another Brick in the PB Wall. The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant link) Get real – the coalition only handed their dodgy…
With recent polls putting the Liberal Democrats at 10% of the national vote (in a virtual tie with UKIP and half their general election vote in 2010), it is safe to say that most Liberal Democrat activists are starting to get just a little on the edgy side about the next election (now less than 21 months away, assuming there isn’t a vote of no confidence as in Germany a few years ago). The most recent polls suggest that Labour…
Great scoop by Mail http://t.co/6In5fJ3qBD on CON & LDs diverting spinsters bequest to nation into party coffers pic.twitter.com/3TwWsfuIxm — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 14, 2013 Just when the narrative was moving against LAB this happens This is how the Mail story linked to in the Tweet above starts: ” The Tories and Lib Dems stood accused of ‘robbery’ yesterday after pocketing a £520,000 bequest to the nation left in an elderly spinster’s will. When she died aged 90, former nurse…
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, why not delurk tonight, if you do delurk tonight, Welcome to the Pleasuredome that is PB. The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant link) Cameron’s chance of winning election ‘diminishing’, Tory activists warn Recovery will be central to Why Labour could win in…
Jim Messina – the ex-Obama strategist now advising the Tories pic.twitter.com/BnFcbbdlHO — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 10, 2013 Is it different over here compared with the US? Jim Messina, who was chief campaign manager for Barak Obama’s 2012 election campaign, has recently been recruited to assist the Tories with their 2015 campaign. This has attracted lots of attention and comment. Jim is known for utilising the power of “Big Data†– Massive, indivualised datasets that, allow fantastically detailed contact with…
Ladbrokes make it 4/5 that Paxman will see out his TV duty for the week wth beard It's 2/1 that it'll survive 2013 pic.twitter.com/DMmfgcBWhH — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 13, 2013 What do you think of Jeremy Paxman’ beard? Does it…? Make him look younger Make him look older Makes no difference
Last month always looked like an outlier Just a month ago the ICM Guardian phone poll sent shocks throughout the political world when it reported that both the blue and red teams were level pegging on 36% each. It really looked as though the CON revival was bearing fruit and the poll helped fuel the “it’s getting much closer” narrative. Some of the pressure that’s been building up on EdM was party down to this single survey from the pollster…
You can now get evens with Ladbrokes that UKIP will win most votes in Euro2014 http://t.co/5ytVwnI62K CON now 5/1 pic.twitter.com/anXW0n6HoU — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 12, 2013 I still think that CON is good bet