Which of these five will be elected PB Poster of the Year?

Which of these five will be elected PB Poster of the Year?

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Your chance to vote The PB Poster of the Year – the final round. You have just one vote ANTIFRANK PLATO YELLOW SUBMARINE NICK PALMER MORRIS DANCER    As was announced on the previous thread voting in the first round was suspended before the end time because of attempts to multi-vote. the the top five are those who were leading when the voting was stopped and I am satisfied that their totals were legitimate. Voting will continue overnight until I…

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Do the Tories have a Fuel Duty problem looming?

Do the Tories have a Fuel Duty problem looming?

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What happened to Osborne’s Fair Fuel Stabiliser? Two years ago, George Osborne launched a consultation on reform of Fuel Duty, with the aims of mitigating petrol prices when the they were high, keeping government revenue roughly neutral and providing greater certainty for motorists, business and government alike. We’ve not heard much of it since. That’s a shame because motorists are currently being hit by a triple whammy that’s pushed petrol up to record levels and will increase it still further….

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Jonathan looks at EdM’s first 100 days

Jonathan looks at EdM’s first 100 days

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How’s the new leader getting on with the job? Today marks Ed Miliband’s 100th day as Labour Leader. How do we think he is getting on? I am sure we all have a view. Returning from a break I have come to the conclusion that, despite a couple of presentational mistakes, Ed is actually doing quite well. Labour are on the right course. But, in the first 100 days it has also become clear how hard his task is. He…

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David Herdson’s predictions for 2011

David Herdson’s predictions for 2011

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Can it match the surprises of 2010? Goodbye to 2010 then, a year that saw more that its fair share of turn-ups. How many of us would have predicted that there’d be a Con-LD coalition government running the country? Who’d have been brave enough to predict Ed Miliband would be leading Labour? Would any of us have foreseen that during the year the Lib Dems would have polled either a first place – ahead of both the Tories and Labour, following…

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PB Poster of the Year: The voting round one.

PB Poster of the Year: The voting round one.

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Which of the following should go through to the final short-list for PB Poster of the Year? You can vote for as many as you wish. SETH O’LOGUE YOKEL TED SEA SHANTY IRISH JAMES KELLY RICHARD TYNDALL STH LONDON NICK PLATO TIM EXUENT OMNES LONDON STATTO EDMUND IN TOKYO ROD CROSBY FLUFFY THOUGHTS WAGE SLAVE TIMT SURBITON AVE IT MORRIS DANCER STJOHN ORACLE MY BURNING EARS YELLOW SUBMARINE ANTIFRANK PENNDU PATRICK NICK PALMER XXXXX HENRYG LUCIAN FLETCHER    Voting will…

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Is “Brand Elwyn” much stronger than “Brand Lib Dem”?

Is “Brand Elwyn” much stronger than “Brand Lib Dem”?

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Picture from Saddleworth News Why I now rate his chances at 40% We’ve seen it time and time again – in fierce by-elections the character, personality and image of the main party candidates can become all important in whether they succeed or fail. These encounters move on from being battles between parties to who electors feel is the best individual most able to represent their area. So it is that in Old & Sad the narrative from the yellows is…

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East Brimstone offers Dave/Nick/Ed his seasonal advice

East Brimstone offers Dave/Nick/Ed his seasonal advice

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Cameron – The years of Big Society? You cannot just speak with a passion, but without sense or proportion. You need intellectual basis to your arguments in order to win the electorate to them through slogans and ideas wire tapped into that intellectual base. Without intellectual basis sold to electorate, danger is the Cameron government will ruin its electoral prospects as into ideological void voters instead identify this government as obsessing with price tags, not understanding the value of the…

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Let the battle commence in Old & Sad

Let the battle commence in Old & Sad

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Who has got the edge as postal voting begins If things have been going to plan then thousands of electors in Oldham East and Saddleworth will be receiving their by-election voting packs in this morning’s mail. We haven’t got a figure yet on the number of postal votes but at the general election it was 8,316 out of 45,092 votes. Given an expected smaller turnout and the efforts that the red and yellows have been making getting supporters signed up…

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