How will a Tory Wales go down with Labour MPs? Of all the results so far tonight the one that stands out, surely, is from Wales. The massive collapse in Labour’s vote in what was a traditional stronghold and the emergence of the Tories as the top party in the principality seems to be totally astounding. This is one of those results that you simply could not have predicted and is so shocking that it could change the dynamics of…
Will this be the big story of the night? Although we are still waiting for an official announcement it’s starting to look as though one, and possibly two, BNP members will have won seats in Brussels in the Euro Elections. Although many had been predicting such a possibility the fact that this electoral success might have happened clearly has the potential to affect politics right across the board. Given Labour’s current travails is this going to help those who are…
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YouGov – June 3rd CON 26 LAB 16 LD 15 UKIP 18 GRN 10 BNP 5 ComRes – May 31st CON 24 LAB 22 LD 14 UKIP 17 GRN 15 BNP 2 ICM – May 28th CON 29 LAB 17 LD 20 UKIP 10 GRN 11 BNP 5 Populus – May 28th CON 30 LAB 16 LD 12 UKIP 19 GRN 10 BNP 5 BPIX – May 16th CON 30 LAB 17 LD 15 UKIP 17 GRN ?? BNP 5…
Get the TweetElect09: Watch in real time what people say widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Who will be laughing and who will be crying? So tonight sees the release of the results of the European Parliamentary Elections – 736 MEPs (plus 18 ‘virtual MEPs’ who will be seated if the Lisbon Treaty is passed) will be elected by and electorate of 350 million potential voters from 27 countries containing 500 million citizens. The Dutch have already…
ICM / News of the World Poll Suggests Cabinet Clear-out An ICM poll reported in the News of the World and being prominently reported on Sky News suggests that seven cabinet ministers would lose their seats in a general election. The poll was carried out last Wednesday – before the local election results, reshuffle and ministerial resignations – in what the paper describes as “the 18 constituencies represented by main Cabinet Ministers”. It’s not clear what this means: there are…
Might the ex-Home Secretary be Labour’s Stalking Elephant? Today’s big news really ought to be the European Parliament election results this evening, though given the way the last few days have gone, there’s no guarantee that something even more dramatic won’t scoop it. Still, as they won’t come out until this evening, let’s have another look at the Labour leadership situation. Once again, the Sunday newspapers are dreadful for Gordon Brown, with stories of (old) e-mails sent by Peter Mandelson…
And Mandelson emails say Brown can’t win Two critical developments this evening that could impact on Gordon’s chances of surviving: the leak of email by Peter Mandelson saying that Brown cannot win and his visit to the D-Day celebrations in Normandy when he apparently got booed by veterans and in his speech he mistakenly referred to Omaha beach as being “Obama Beach” The alleged Mandelson emails, written in January last year while he was still an EU commissioner, are in…