Where’s his support likely to go? The big story in the race for the Republican party nomination is an announcement that’s expected shortly from the one time front-runner, the pizza chain boss, Herman Cain, on whether he’s going to quit the race. His bid for the White House has taken a lot of blows in recent weeks and the latest, about a 13 year long affair, might just have pushed him over the edge. But we don’t know – this…
Would local pay deals produce more public/private equality? The two big domestic events of the last week were the public sector strikes and the Autumn Statement, both of which were about the government’s spending plans. It’s perhaps surprising then that one part of the Chancellor’s speech hasn’t received more attention. What he said was this: “I can also announce that we are asking the independent Pay Review Bodies to consider how public sector pay can be made more responsive to…
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Henry G Manson on Danny A’s Newsnight comments After a public meeting in March Nick Clegg quipped to David Cameron ‘if we keep doing this we won’t find anything to bloody disagree on in the bloody TV debates.’ The comments were picked up on microphone riled some Lib Dems that a fixed-term coalition was now hardening into something more enduring. Of course since then there has been a wide range of issues in which the Lib Dems have sought to…
Have we lost confidence in all of them? The above is one of the findings in the post Autumn statement YouGov survey and shows responses to the question:”George Osborne has delivered his autumn statement, in which the forecast growth of the British economy next year was reduced from 2.5% to 0.7%. Which one or two, if any, of the following do you think is most to blame for the low rate of growth?” Given the news coverage of the Eurozone…
Betfair Politics Could Newt Gingrich soon become favourite? By far the biggest political betting story at the moment is the race for the Republican White House nomination in which real voters start making their choices in just 34 days. Big money is starting to be wagered and every serious political punter that I know is involved. The past 24 hours have seen dramatic changes as one poll after another in one state after another have seen Romney’s share fall and…
The first polling reaction to yesterday’s Osborne statement is coming in. This was Tweeted an hour ago. @Sun_Politics: Sun/YouGov poll: 1st verdict on Aut Statement – only 24% say Osborne doing good job, but they don’t blame him for growth collapse… …asked to name 2 causes; 44% blame Eurozone crisis, 32% say Labour’s leftover debts, 31% blame banks, and 28% think Coalition’s cuts. Have a good evening. Mike Smithson @MikeSmithsonPB
And does the speaker make it worse? It was inevitable, I suppose, given the dreadful economic forecasts yesterday, and the strike today that PMQs would be noisy and angry. Things are getting very polarised. As to who won it depends on what you consider important? In terms of the media coverage Cameron’s description of his opponent as “Irresponsible, left wing and weak” is going to make the headlines. This was the PM using bluster to deal with a sustained series…