Link to the betting market What words will he use in Wednesday’s Congress speech Ever eager to tempt us to part with our money Ladbrokes have just introduced a market on the words that Gord will us in his speech to Congress in Washington on Wednesday. On the face of it this should be easy. Brown is not known for the range of his vocabulary and consistently falls back in the same sometimes hackneyed phrases. So how is he going…
PoliticsHome Sept 2008 How many seats will the Tories get in Scotland? My understanding is that PoliticsHome is considering updating its massive marginals polling exercise that sought to make predictions for 238 battle-ground seats in the coming election. This is great news for as we get closer to the general election and more betting markets open up I find myself relying more and more and on the massive survey last year in which more 34,000 voters were questioned. Featured above…
PO privatisation: the view from the Labour’s grass-roots Peter Mandelson’s proposals to sell off a third of Royal Mail spell electoral disaster for the Labour Party in the June elections and beyond. Last year’s local and mayoral elections were by and large catastrophic for Labour. The economic and political rollercoaster ride since then makes the 10p tax furore feel and age ago, but I remember it clear to this day. One of my roles then was to ring party members…
Mail on Sunday Would she be better for Brown inside or outside the tent? There’s a piece in the Mail on Sunday today raising the possibility that the Prime Minister may be considering sacking Harriet Harman. According to the paper, “…his anger boiled over at a private meeting in No10, shouting: ‘Who the hell does that woman think she is?’ Sources say Mr Brown swore more than once during heated exchanges with aides on how to silence Labour’s Deputy Leader….
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Today, I will be joining around 1,000 participants nationwide at the Convention on Modern Liberty – a conference of speakers and activists from across the political spectrum who share a concern about the direction with respect to our basic rights and liberties. Although not an automatic adherent, I acknowledge that we now live in a society that is becoming ever more scary from this particular perspective, and am interested to see what some of the great thinkers of the age…
Take the 6/1 that Fred’s pension will be cut I’ve just put £100 on at 6/1 with William Hill that the former RBS boss, Sir Fred Goodwin will accept a cut in his much publicised pension entitlement. The bet is that he will either do so voluntarily or be forced to do so by the end of the year. There’s so much political pressure on Brown that the chances of Goodwin being unable to brazen it out must be better…
YouGov Is anything other than equidistance wrong for the LDs? If other polls follow YouGov and we get near to hung parliament territory again there will be more focus on what other parties, notably the SNP and the Lib Dems, would do. Here the views of party supporters might be important. The best regular guide of how Lib Dem voters view things comes in the monthly Telegraph poll with the detailed splits on their forced choice “Brown or Cameron” question….