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Is Peter Kellner right in his conclusion? The latest edition of Prospect Magazine has a fascinating article by YouGov president, Peter Kellner, on a new YouGov poll that shows differing views of the world by those who consider themselves “British” and those who think of themselves as “English”. The detailed figures are quite striking as Kellner explains:- “…Our survey asked people whether they considered themselves mainly as English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, British or European. A mere 2 per cent said…

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DATE FOR YOUR DIARY The next PB Party has been arranged for December 1st at the Dirty Dicks pub opposite Liverpool Street station in London. An area of the first floor will again be set aside for us and everybody is welcome – lurkers and posters alike. This will be the third Dirty Dicks gathering this year bringing the total of PB parties in 2011 to five. We also had an event in West Sussex as well as one in…

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Have we been here before with Rick, Michelle & Herman? The race for the Republican party nomination for the White House has a familiar pattern to it. Mitt Romney continues to poll in the 20s and every few weeks or so one of the other hopefuls suddenly has a surge only to be thwarted in some form later. We are seeing that with restaurant chain boss, Herman Cain, at the moment. He’s seen his ratings drop after the sexual harassment…

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Can the public cope with a pile of numbers like this? The “Re-Elect Boris” campaign in London has been keen that PB features its response to Ken’s move on bus fares following Henry G Manson’s piece last week in which the Ken video was presented. The spat between the two men has yet to catch the public imagination but in the interests of balance I’m running the Boris response. The Labour candidate, it will be recalled, is making a simple…

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What the pollsters were saying exactly 4 years ago The chart shows the Real Clear Politics Average exactly four years ago in the race for the Republican nomination. At that stage, like in the 2012 race, we were just under seven weeks from the first proper test when real voters expressed their preference – the Iowa caucuses. As we all know it was the veteran Arizona senator, John McCain, who came out top overall. For the opening states at this…

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Channel 4 News Will Brodie Clark’s word or her’s be believed? This might all turn out to be a damp squib but the appearance of Brodie Clark, ex-director of border control for the UK Border Agency, before a commons committee today could have a dramatic impact on the career of the most senior woman in Cameron’s cabinet, Theresa May. For every small detail of his account of the events that led to his exit from his job last week will…

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General Election candidate Party Votes % +/- Alan Keen Labour 21174 43.6 -4.5 Mark Bowen Conservative 16516 34 5.2 Munira Wilson Liberal Democrat 6669 13.7 -2.9 John Donnelly BNP 1714 3.5 3.5 Jerry Shadbolt UKIP 992 2 0.5 Elizabeth Anstis Green 530 1.1 -1.2 Dharmendra Tripathi Independent 505 1 1 Asa Khaira Independent 180 0.4 0.4 Roger Williams Independent 168 0.3 0.3 Matthew Linley WRP 78 0.2 0.2 Majority   4658 9.6 Is this the way Farage’s party should campaign…

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