What’s going to be George’s big surprise?
Are there any good budget bets? Firstly thanks to Marf for her budget day cartoon. The reason that we’ve not seen much of her work on the site recently is that all her energies have been focussed on a special exhibition that opens in April in London – more details on that later. On the budget itself the level of briefing and leaks that we’ve seen is reminiscent of Gordon Brown’s days at the treasury when lots of information and…
The Tories move to their lowest level with Angus Reid
Poll Date CON % LAB % LD % OTH % Angus Reid/ 20/03/11 32 41 10 17 Angus Reid/ 04/03/11 33 41 10 16 Angus Reid/ 10/02/11 34 40 11 15 Angus Reid/Sunday Express 28/02/11 32 43 11 14 Angus Reid/ 25/01/11 33 41 12 13 Angus Reid/ 06/01/11 35 40 12 15 Angus Reid/ 20/12/10 35 41 9 12 Angus Reid/ 29/11/10 35 40 13 13 Angus Reid/ 28/10/10 35 37 15 11 Angus Reid/Sunday Express 01/10/10 35 38…
Guest slot by Moses: What’s the end game in Libya?
Could UN 1973 have other benefits not initially apparent? When a leader threatens the people with ‘no mercy’ it is inevitable that some form of an International response would be forthcoming. The International community could not again stand idle and do nothing. The lessons of Kosovo have been learned, the method of implementation qualified by the experiences and errors of Iraq but an ‘elephant in the room’ of Bahrain and perhaps even Zimbabwe still do remain and will need to…
The Libyan intervention: Making sense of contradictory polls
Pollster/publication Question wording Date Right % Wrong % YouGov for the Sun Do you think Britain, France, the US and other countries are right or wrong to take military action in Libya? 20/03/11 to 21/03/11 45 36 Pollster/publication Question wording Date Agree % Disagree % ComRes online for ITV news It is right for the UK to take military action against Colonel Gadafi’s forces in Libya 18/03/11 to 20/03/11 35 43 Is it down to timing and the wording? At 10pm…
ComRes finds only lukewarm support for the Libyan action
ComRes/ITV News poll sampled online from Friday until Sunday Response % It is right for the UK to take military action against Colonel Gaddafi’s forces in Libya Agree 35 Disagree 43 Don’t know 22 I feel I have a good understanding of why the UK is planning military action in Libya  Agree 52 Disagree 29 Don’t know 18 Military action in Libya is an unnecessary risk for Britain to take  Agree 49 Disagree 31 Don’t know 20 The international…
The Libya debate goes on
The vote is due at 10pm.
Does anybody give a monkey’s about the referendum?
My conversation with the ex-MP after a day’s canvassing Over the weekend I had a long phone conversation with a former MP (not Lib Dem) who is campaigning hard for his party for the local elections in May. He told me that to test the water on AV he began asking about the referendum which is on the same day. The responses, he recalled, were striking. Not only did the electors he spoke to not have view a significant segment…