Is this a smart idea for the Tories or not?
Telegraph Could the strategy mean there’s even more exposure for Brown? A big discussion point on some Tory-inclined blogs today has been the Daily Telegraph story, quoting an unnamed shadow cabinet minister, that the party is planning, in that lovely term coined by the Lib Dems in 2005, a “decapitation strategy” to target the constituencies of several leading Labour figure. The paper quotes their source as saying: “..Certain Labour Party big beasts, and they know who they are, are already…
Why are bloggers suddenly on the defensive?
Is the mainstream media trying to hit back? Suddenly I’m getting calls from all over the place from journalists and academics who are looking at blogging. Maybe it’s because of the harsh economic climate in which the press is now having to operate but there certainly seems to be an effort to disparage this part of the new media and I just worry about possible moves to impede us. Even that weighty publication, the Financial Times has tried to put…
PB could be getting its own exclusive poll
Will “we” end up with getting the best prediction? Discussions are taking place on a plan that would give me something that I have always wanted for the site – a regular monthly poll of voting intentions carried out exclusively for Politicalbetting.com by a leading polling organisation. For at the moment we have to rely completely on others and when polls do come out the information that’s available is usually quite limited. Often we have to wait for a few…
Is Labour paying the price for the “easy years”?
Did they fail to keep up when the Tories were so feeble? I continue to be flabbergasted by Labour’s abject failure to score a hit over the Hannan-Tories-NHS affair. They were presented with everything they needed to impede the Cameron surge and have failed to capitalise. The Health secretary who is also a Cambridge English graduate, Andy Burnham, has simply been unable to find words that work and the result is that the story has lost almost all of its…
Is Glasgow NE going to be a Glasgow East or a Glenrothes?
Wikipedia Is Labour good value at 8/13? So far I’ve not got excited about the pending by-election in Glasgow NE – the seat made vacant by the resignation of the speaker, Michael Martin. Because of the tradition that major parties do not contest the Speaker’s seat there is no direct comparison with what happened at the general election. Martin stood as the speaker not as Labour candidate. He got 53.3% of the votes with the SNP, who did stand, in…
Down Memory Lane: September 2007
YouGov: September 28th 2007 CON 32 LAB 43 LD 15 Populus: September 27 2007 CON 31 LAB 41 LD 17 Ipsos-MORI: September 26 2007 CON 31 LAB 44 LD 15 YouGov: September 25 2007 CON 33 LAB 44 LD 13 Ipsos-Mori: September 22 2007 CON 34 LAB 42 LD 14 ICM: September 21 2007 CON 33 LAB 39 LD 19
Is Labour losing the battle to be called “progressive”?
PoliticsHome Why’s Mandy’s message not getting through? Early last week we saw a furious outburst from Peter Mandelson following the use by his old foe George Osborne of the term “progressive” to describe the Conservatives. We ran a thread on it. This is a description that seems to touch a raw nerve within the Labour movement which was probably the back-ground to Mandy’s move. So what will the parties make of this new poll from PoliticsHome? For if Labour thought…