What do Lib Dem voters think of Polly’s plan?

What do Lib Dem voters think of Polly’s plan?

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Why doesn’t she take the trouble to look at the polling? This is a graph that was produced by John Cruddas for his big speech to the Compass conference during the week in an attempt to underline his case that there is a near-permanent progressive consensus in British politics. One of the participants, Guardian writer and former SDP-member, Polly Toynbee was reported as saying that “the graph showed that the Conservative Party had never, in the post-war era, had a…

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Has the SNP discovered the Mandela polling secret?

Has the SNP discovered the Mandela polling secret?

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When mentioning his name might get better results? All the discussion over leading over allege leading questions in he ComRes poll have provided a peg fo me to highlight one of my favourite polls ever. In the build-up in 2005 to the resolution London’s big for the 2012 Olympics a poll was commissioned to try to show that people in the capital backed the idea. This was the series of questions in the order that they were put:- “Are you…

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Should Clegg call for a withdrawal from Afghanistan?

Should Clegg call for a withdrawal from Afghanistan?

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Would this be as popular as their pre-2005 Iraq policy? One of the huge areas of government policy which is increasingly being opposed by voters is the continued deployment of British troops in Afghanistan. A YouGov poll for the Telegraph a week ago found a split of 26% in favour and 62% against to the question “Do you favour or oppose the continued deployment of British troops to Afghanistan?. Surprisingly the party whose voters are most in favour of pulling…

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What does this say about the Brown – Cameron battle?

What does this say about the Brown – Cameron battle?

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Woodnewton Associates How predictive are leader aprroval ratings six months out? The above table has been prepared by pollling analyst Mark Gill and appears on the Gary Gibbon blog on the Channel 4 website. Using Gallup Poll leader approval data for 1959 – 1974 and Ipsos MORI for 1979 – 2009 it seeks to show the extent to which those those numbers were predictive from six months out before the election. Just look at it election by election and then…

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Could there be a secret MPs ballot on Brown’s future?

Could there be a secret MPs ballot on Brown’s future?

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Ladbrokes Would such a plot make this market more attractive? With Ladbrokes re-opening their “Who’ll be PM at the end of the year” betting there’s news this morning of plan to give Labour MPs a secret vote when they could express their views on whether or not Gordon should lead Labour into the general election. According to Tim Shipman in the Mail “a senior backbencher is being lined up to call for Mr Brown’s head and give MPs the chance…

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Is Darling going to be Labour’s Geoffrey Howe?

Is Darling going to be Labour’s Geoffrey Howe?

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Mail Online Will the Chancellor be the one who brings down Brown? For someone like me who has been a Brown-sceptic for at least four years it is blindingly obvious that Labour would fare better in the coming election with a different leader. Mind you I felt the same in the run-up to Brown’s coronation in 2007 and I was wrong then about what Labour MPs would do. It seemed impossible, in my view, that those who wanted to keep…

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Is this why there’ll be no general election night in Newcastle?

Is this why there’ll be no general election night in Newcastle?

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Commons Library Why the vast difference in rates? The growing “Keep General Election” night campaign has prompted an excuse from Newcastle upon Tyne about the difficulties they have because of their unusually high number of postal votes. I thought I would check the city’s figures and wow what a surprise. Look at those numbers above compared with the national average. The last general election in 2005 was the first one where the Labour government’s new postal voting arrangements were in…

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