Following a “Conservative day” here on PB, tomorrow we have a “Labour day”. HenryG will kick off with a look at a possible Shadow Cabinet reshuffle, followed by Sean Fear examining Labour’s polling position. Double Carpet www.electiongame.co.uk Twitter @electiongame
With Mike Smithson on holiday there are fewer thread headers – but PB’s “Big Conversation” continues. Welcome to this afternoon’s open thread.
Mark Gill looks at the PM’s ratings ahead of today’s speech Prime minister David Cameron goes to Manchester as the second most popular of the last five prime ministers at the stage of their second party conferences. In Ipsos MORI’s September 2011 survey Camerons’s approval ratings were 39% satisfied and 52% dissatisfied, giving a net score of -13. This compares favourably against the -45 net approval for Brown (in Sept 2008), -27 for Major (in Sept 1992) and -23 for…
After the announcement of Christie not joining the GOP nomination race, and ahead of Cameron’s speech tomorrow, there’s also been a poll from Opinium: Lab 40 (+4) Con 33 (-) LD 9 (-) Others 18 (+4) Thanks again to Marf for the cartoon and to all the contributors helping to keep PB going while Mike is in AndalucÃa. Double Carpet www.electiongame.co.uk @electiongame
Washington Post What will be the impact of this on the GOP race?
While Mike Smithson is on holiday there’ll be fewer thread headers – but PB’s “Big Conversation” will continue. Welcome to this afternoon’s open thread.
CON/Dave take 6% lead in YouGov’s forced choice question One polling finding which doesn’t usually attract much attention is the fortnightly forced choice question which is put by YouGov. Here respondents are asked: “If you had to choose, which would you prefer to see after the next election, a Conservative government led by David Cameron or a Labour government led by Ed Miliband?” You’d expect there to be close correlation between responses here and voting intention. Not always so. In…
See you again in two and a half weeks My wife, Jacky, and I are off on our main holiday of the year tomorrow travelling the classy way to Spain on the Hotel Train. We are both now retired and plan to travel a lot more while we are still fit and while it’s still possible to buy travel health insurance at non-exorbitant prices. Unlike my previous holidays we are not planing to post the same number of threads. There…