Poll Date CON % LAB% LD % YouGov/Sunday Times 29/10/10 42 37 13 YouGov/Sunday Times 22/10/10 41 40 10 YouGov/Sunday Times 17/10/10 41 39 11 YouGov/Sunday Times 08/10/10 42 38 12 YouGov/Sunday Times 01/10/10 39 41 11 Tories and LDs up – Labour down Tonight’s YouGov poll for the Sunday Times is the first full voting intention poll since the housing benefit row erupted and the figures are good for the coalition and bad for Labour. The Lib Dem share,…
BBC Could the red team just lost some of the Ginger vote? As the father of two children who were bullied at school because of their ginger hair I am beside myself with fury at Harriet Harman’s nasty attack on Danny Alexander as being a “ginger rodent”. By all means get into an argument on the issues but to use an inherited bodily characteristic to attack someone smacks of racism – which is even more outrageous given Harriet’s record in…
Is outspokenness an underrated quality? Boris Johnson is probably not the most popular figure with Conservative high command just at the moment given his comments about the proposed Housing Benefit changes. Not only has he very publicly gone against the party line but he used pretty powerful language in doing so. It’s not the first time Boris has had to moderate or clarify the colourful language he’s prone to employing. In the past, he’s managed to stir up controversies with…
The red team continues to make progress Party Votes Cast % Votes Seats Won Change Labour 17714 35.69% 14 +5 Conservatives 14594 29.41% 10 -3 Liberal Democrats 10139 20.43% 6 -1 Independents 2181 4.39% 2 -1 Plaid Cymru 1297 2.61% 0 -1 Green Party 1139 2.30% 0 n/c United Kingdom Independence Party 771 1.55% 0 n/c Scottish National Party 571 1.15% 0 n/c British National Party 183 0.37% 0 n/c Other Parties 1037 2.09% 2 1 GAINS / LOSSES Conservative…
Ipsos-MORI Or will the Tories of yesteryear emerge again? Every month for more than thirty years Ipsos-MORI has asked the same two part-question question in the same standard way which, almost uniquely, is totally unprompted. The pollster asks “What do you see as the most important/other important issues face Britain today”. As you’d expect the economy, race relations and immigration, unemployment and crime figure high as you can see here. But there’s one issue that’s been sharply on the decline…
Google News search -“Ed Miliband” Is visibility always the problem when you are opposition leader? On the face of it yesterday was a pretty bad news day for the coalition. There was Boris and “call me Dave” having their huge public spat over housing benefit, a suggestion that the child benefit move for higher rate tax-payers might be a lot harder to achieve than was first thought, and the PM fighting a tough battle in the EU. Yet the main…
Enter this evening’s quickie competition The publishers of the Kavanagh/Cowley General Election 2010 book have given PB a copy for a competition prize. So can you guess the numbers in tonight’s YouGov daily poll which will be out at 10pm. Please post on the thread giving the shares for the three main parties and the government approval/disapproval figures. The competition will be decided by who is the least wrong. So if you have CON 41: LAB 38: LD11 and 41%…
Cambridge University Press Could your politics be determined by your genetic make-up? Like most PB regulars, I guess, I’ve always assumed that a person’s political ideology is determined by family environment and friends. New research suggests something different. For liberals, at least, may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, according to researchers from the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. Ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine receptor gene…