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Is it OK now for a politician to be gay?

18/1/2005 Editor

Will the pinks help the blues? One of the areas where the coming General Election will be unique is that the number of candidates from the main parties who are openly gay will be at the highest level ever. Perhaps surprisingly there are about twenty Conservative PPCs who have declared themselves including a number in target seats. One of them is Iain Dale in North Norfolk and a regular contributor to the site. Will their declarations of their sexual orientation…

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Enter Lib Dem fantasy land

17/1/2005 Editor

What would happen to the “certain” bet with this scenario? With the Tories moving even further down in the spread markets Jon’s plan, for a “sure thing” General Election betting strategy could look even more promising. His plan is to combine a Tory buy spread contract at the depressed prices with a Labour winning most seats win punt on Betfair where the odds are now 1.17. The effect of the combination is that you are protected against a loss even…

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How low will the Tory price go?

16/1/2005 Editor

Not a good weekend for the Tory leader A double blow for Michael Howard this weekend looks set to put even greater pressure on the Conservative price on the General Election spread betting markets. Firstly came the news that the former Higher Education minister, Robert Jackson, has defected to the Labour party. Secondly a new Populus poll in the News of the World shows that the Tories are falling back in the key marginal seats that they need to win…

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Is Gordon Brown worth 25/1 to be the post-election PM?

15/1/2005 Editor

A good value bet on the Chancellor? Gordon Brown’s high-profile African tour signing deals to ease the foreign debt burden of poor countries should go down well with many of the potential LD-leaning Labour supporters on whom the General Election result probably depends. It sounds like a bold initiaitive but as critics have pointed out it is one that it is not costing the UK tax-payer very much. The latest in Tanzania will provide an average of Â£4m a year…

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Sorry about the technical problems

14/1/2005 Editor

Apologies to all for the server problems again today – made worse because my son Robert is skiing in France and I am less able to fix it. We appear to have a peak of demand in the late mornings on weekdays which our systems seem to have problems coping with. I hope everybody got lots of work done this afternoon and productivity increased across the nation. Mike Smithson

Is the Blair-Brown feud a cunning plot?

14/1/2005 Editor

Could they really have planned it like this? An interesting theory is put forward by James Blitz in the Financial Times today suggesting that the the Brown-Blair row might be part of a “cunning plot”. He notes First, it helped to get the prime minister over a very bad start to election year. The idea that Mr Blair had misjudged the public mood over the Asian tsunami – staying too long on holiday – had begun to crystallise in the…

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Who’ll lose from Robert Kilroy-Silk’s new party plans

13/1/2005 Editor

Could the former TV star be the joker in the pack? A completely unknown factor in the coming General Election is the impact of Robert Kilroy-Silk, the former Labour MP turned TV presenter turned UKIP MEP and now possibly leader of his own new party. According to the Guardian’s Backbencher column “…Kilroy’s increasingly desperate search for a political home may be about to come to an end. Having been narrowly rejected by both the English Democrats and the New Party…

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The partnership that did real damage to Labour

13/1/2005 Editor

Forget the Blair-Brown squabble: Blair-Bush is the one that matters With Michael Howard trying to squeeze every bit of political capital over Gordon Brown’s views of the PM’s approach to the truth punters should not forget the other of Tony Blair’s partnerships that has done far far more damage than the Tories ever can to Labour. His decision to join George Bush in the Iraqi adventure has hurt the party dear and no amount of massaging the figures can gloss…

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