Can Dom’s Commons committee appearance on Wednesday possibly live up to its billing?

Can Dom’s Commons committee appearance on Wednesday possibly live up to its billing?

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Or will it end up a bit of a damp squib? Over the weekend there has been an increasing build up to the appearance on Wednesday morning by Dominic Cummings before the Commons select committees on Health and Science. This has been reinforced by a series of Tweets from the former advisor to Boris Johnson and all the indications are that he is going to try to “spill the beans” in some form about the government’s handling of the pandemic….

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In just three weeks there’ve been CON leads ranging between 1% and 18% in the published national polls

In just three weeks there’ve been CON leads ranging between 1% and 18% in the published national polls

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At least we know the pollsters aren’t “herding” Above is the Wikipedia table of the latest voting intention polls and as can be seen there is a huge variation between the polls. In fact the gap when looking at them from the CON lead perspective is as great as anything I have seen since establishing PB in March 2004. What is not included in the list is the regular monitor from Ipsos-MORI – the one firm that still carries much…

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The most depressing polling response I can recall

The most depressing polling response I can recall

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I’ve never been more disheartened by a response to a poll than this poll. I think the GOP are becoming aware of the fact that they’ve only won the popular vote once in the last eight presidential elections. I try to use the word fascism sparingly but this is where the party of Lincoln is headed, but like many despots the GOP want to suppress their political opponents from challenging them. A confident party would want to focus on popular…

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David Cameron: Liberal Democrat Slayer

David Cameron: Liberal Democrat Slayer

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For those of us who were Conservative activists in the 1990s and the early 2000s we were often in awe of the Liberal Democrat campaigning efforts. The Liberal Democrat activists would enter an area, secure a foothold on the local council, eventually take control of the council, and in plenty of these areas take the parliamentary seat shortly thereafter. Newbury, Christchurch, Eastleigh, Winchester, and Romsey are seared on the minds of so many. It is one of the reasons the…

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Sending best wishes to PBer JohnO

Sending best wishes to PBer JohnO

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I’m sure PBers will join me in sending our best wishes to JohnO who suffered a cardiac arrest earlier on this month, Esher and Walton Conservatives said last week. Local Conservatives are thankful for all the goodwill messages we received for our colleague County Cllr John O’Reilly after he suffered a cardiac arrest last week. We are pleased to report that John is now making a good recovery in hospital. On Sunday 9 May, only three days after John was re-elected as…

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The Boris vaccination poll “bounce” will evaporate unless those who’ve had both jabs start to see some benefit

The Boris vaccination poll “bounce” will evaporate unless those who’ve had both jabs start to see some benefit

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Undoubtedly the government’s vaccination progress has been a great success and clearly has had a big impact on curbing the spread of COVID amongst the most vulnerable. All the signs are that the vaccines pretty are robust with the new variants as Johnson was boasting about at PMQs on Wednesday. On top of that the real-life efficacy of AZC jab has proved to be far in excess of that achieved in the early trials. So why oh why are those…

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A fascinating insight into the psyche of Britons

A fascinating insight into the psyche of Britons

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I’ve been looking forward to seeing this poll ever since I saw the YouGov polled what animals Americans they think could beat in a fight. The 2/3 per cent of respondents who think they could beat a crocodile, grizzly bear, elephant, or lion remind me of the anecdote that in a survey several years ago 2% of respondents who replied yes to the question ‘Have you ever been decapitated?’ As for the 66% who think they could beat a cat…

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January 6th is what some Republican congressmen are now calling a “tourist visit”

January 6th is what some Republican congressmen are now calling a “tourist visit”

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It is now more than four and a half months since the dramatic events in Washington when supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building in the effort to stop Congress officially certifying that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election – yet what happened that day looks set to dominate US politics for a long time to come. The latest move is for Congress to create an official inquiry into what happened and, no doubt, Trump would have been…

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