The Friday night continuation thread….
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PR Week on the impact of Smeargate on No.10
PR Week Make of this what you will One of the more off-beat places to look for information about life in No. 10 since the Brownite take-over has been the trade magazine PR Week which has much to chew over in its latest edition. David Singleton writes: “…One Downing Street insider said there had been ‘endless conference calls and crisis meetings’ since the story of McBride’s plans to smear senior Tories broke on Saturday. The source added: ‘This is a…
Why’s Jacqui still fighting her corner over Greengate?
Does she think it’ll boost her chances of her survival? Perhaps the most remarkable feature following yesterday’s decision by the DPP not to prosecute Damien Green has been the reaction of Jacqui Smith and her home office team. For in spite of everything she seems to be still fighting the case. We saw it in her TV interviews yesterday and there’s a flavour in some of the coverage this morning. Philip Webster and Francis Elliott write in the Times that..”…
Introducing Betfair General Election Line Betting?
Will this be the big election betting market Betfair has just introduced a new form of betting for the general election – called line betting – which seems ideal for a betting exchange where individual punters fix the prices through what they are prepared to offer rather than this being done by the bookmaker. So how does it work? Look at the panel above and you’ll see sells in the blue shaded area and buys in the pink shaded one….
What’s all this going to do to the polls?
Is it just the political nerds who are interested? After such an intensive period of dramatic political developments I just wonder how this is going down amongst the voters at large. Are they really responding in the way that the Westminster village seems to be and, of course, posters on PB’s threads which are now running to record lengths? Or could it be that when the next polls come out over the weekend and early next week that we don’t…
Will it be the other Damian that brings down Jacqui?
Times Online What chances her survival if the Green case is dropped? At the end of November, less than a day after the police raid on Damian Green’s offices in the Palace of Westminster, I placed as much as William Hill would allow me at 7/4 that Jacqui Smith would move from being home secretary at some time before the general election. In spite of everything that bet is still outstanding. The price later tightened to 6/4 and the time…
What now for Derek Draper?
..and will the site he created go on? The news that LabourList’s Derek Draper is considering resigning because of the fallout from the ‘dirty tricks’ scandal means that that Guido might have taken his second scalp. But what’s Derek going to do next and what’s going to happen to LabourList – the website he established less than three months ago? I’ve hardly looked at it for weeks but a quick scan this evening suggests that it is starting to develop…
However did Brown become the heir apparent?
ICM Research May 1994 Did Blair concede too much at the Granita? We all know about the famous dinner at the Granita in Islington at the end of May 1994 which has shaped British politics ever since. For Brown came away from that meeting thinking that he had Blair’s backing as the heir apparent in exchange for not pursuing his own candidature. Yet just looking back at the polling of the period this seems crazy. Brown was simply not in…