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’ve always been a lurker, nighthawks gives you an opportunity to delurk, why not take a Walk on the wild side, posting on pb will make it a Perfect Day for you. The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant story) Rightly or wrongly, I suspect this…
Are we heading to a new normality? The June telephone poll from ICM, one of the three remaining regular surveys that carry out their fieldwork in this way, is out and sees a sharp decline for UKIP after reaching 18% last month. That poll took place while the Farage’s party was enjoying the mass of coverage following its big success in the May 2nd local elections and the good second place in the South Shields by-election. This month the limelight…
Farage’s force is no longer “some other party” Last year the newbie pollster which is now picking up an awful lot of business, Survation, caused controversy in the industry by including UKIP in its main voting intention prompt. The result was that Survation began showing shares for UKIP which were considerably larger than many other firms. The practice for online pollsters had been to list CON, LAB, and LD on the first screen of the voting intention questioning with an…
@msmithsonpb Surprising that Labour are doing so well in the opinion polls if many still blame them for the economic situation. — Stephen Hopkins (@StephenHopkin11) June 9, 2013 Surely non-voting findings are “priced in”? Above is an exchange I had on Twitter pointing up one of the main characteristics of current polling – the gap between what people are saying when asked how they will vote and their responses to specific points like the Brown still being blamed one. It…
From the Lord Ashcroft polling released on Friday, there was focus upon the three established party leaders. Overall, views of the three leaders have changed remarkably little over time. Asked to choose from a selection of words and phrases that might describe them, participants continue to choose “out of touch†for Cameron, with “stands up for Britain†as a positive counterbalance. Miliband remains predominantly “weak†and “out of his depthâ€, with no very prominent positives. Clegg contrives to combine the…
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Yougov Sunday Times poll. Con 30, Labour 40, UKIP 14, Lib Dems 9 — TSEofPB (@TSEofPB) June 9, 2013 64% Support ending the winter fuel allowance for wealthy pensioners, 28% oppose. – Ed’s policy has support — TSEofPB (@TSEofPB) June 9, 2013 On cutting benefits 21% say Ed M did it because he genuinely believes that it is the right thing to do. — TSEofPB (@TSEofPB) June 9, 2013 But 60% says he does not believe it is right, but…
The possible ins and outs of the cabinet – according to today’s Sun newspaper. twitter.com/TSEofPB/status… — TSEofPB (@TSEofPB) June 8, 2013 In the past day there’s been a few stories about some upcoming reshuffles. In the Evening Standard it says David Cameron will carry out a ministerial reshuffle within weeks — with a second, more sweeping reshaping of his government towards the end of the year, the Standard has been told. The Prime Minister’s double shuffle will start in July,…