Ashcroft poll: 73% LAB members say the antisemitism issue was invented or wildly exaggerated by Corbyn’s opponents
And All segments, it seems, apart from LAB members rate Tony Blair as the best party leader of recent times
Starmer gets the best ratings from both all voters and LAB members in new large sample Ashcroft poll
He’s the only leader or deputy contender in positive territory There’s a new large sample Lord Ashcroft poll that’s been published overnight that looks back at the general election particularly the reasons for the LAB defeat and looks forward to the coming LAB leadership ballot which starts later this month. The full report is well worth downloading. The report also includes the findings of a series of focus groups which are worthy of a separate header in themself. The part…
The multi-billionaire who has ignored the first primary states now second place in the betting
More and more money goes on 77 year old Bloomberg On the eve of the first full primary, New Hampshire, the person who’ll become the stop Bernie contender has yet to emerge which is one reason why Sanders looks set to follow his tie in Iowa with a victory in New Hampshire. Bloomberg, one of the richest people in the world, is determined to do what he can to stop Trump and is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on…
The Boris Bridge to Ireland plan – the ultimate vanity project?
Reminder what engineers think of building a 22 mile bridge through a deep and stormy munitions dump pic.twitter.com/odNFyZD87E — James Felton (@JimMFelton) February 10, 2020 There are surely better ways of improving the UK’s travel infrastructure If/when @theSNP achieve independence, who picks up the tab for the committed-to-but-not-yet-built bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland proposed by @BorisJohnson ? Sadly, I think I know the answer! PS it would have been closed for the last 2 days because of Storm Ciara…
Amy Klobuchar edging up in New Hampshire ahead of tomorrow’s primary
Now third in two latest polls on tomorrow’s primary So far in the race for the Democratic nomination the field has tended to split into two groups: the super young people represented by 38 year old Pete Buttigieg and the very old with Michael Bloomberg, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders who are all heading for their 80s. One person who has not really had a breakout moment is the Senator from Minnesota Amy klobuchar who is 59 who really needs…
The world is becoming even more partisan
Every so often we see some polling that much like the polling of Tory Party members last summer that saw a majority of Tory members will to countenance the destruction of the United Kingdom as well as significant damage to the economy to ensure their Brexit is delivered makes you go wow. This polling from America which sees 62% of New Hampshire Democratic Party primary voters would prefer a meteor strike to wipe out all human life over Trump winning…
Ethics man. God, mammon and investing
Those snowflakes are at it again. Students of St John’s college, Oxford, have called upon their college to disinvest from companies that extract fossil fuels and thus contribute to global warming. In response, the principal bursar has told them that could not be done at a drop of a hat, but he’d gladly turn off the gas in their halls of residence if that would make them feel better. It seems that it would not. Contrary to the implication of…
The New Hampshire polling looks almost solid for Bernie – but then so did Iowa
Given the delays in getting a firm result from Iowa I wonder whether our first clear cut outcome could happen on Tuesday night in New Hampshire. For even when the Iowa party gets all the outstanding data in on Monday then it is far from clear that this will be the end of the matter. All this is because with caucuses it is the party machines that handles the election and the counting unlike where you have full primaries like…