NEW PB / Polling Matters podcast: Vote blue go green? Farage, Boris & 2nd referendums (again) plus Labour NEC election fallout

NEW PB / Polling Matters podcast: Vote blue go green? Farage, Boris & 2nd referendums (again) plus Labour NEC election fallout

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On this week’s podcast, Keiran and Leo continue with the new format of the show where each guest chooses a news story that has interested them from the past week and provides some polling analysis on a key issue of the day. Topics discussed this week include: 1) What the Tories’ new focus on environmental issues says about their brand and future electoral strategy 2) Why Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson are indicating support for another referendum on Brexit and…

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Alastair Meeks recommends his approach to baldness as Britain’s best post-Brexit strategy

Alastair Meeks recommends his approach to baldness as Britain’s best post-Brexit strategy

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The 1970s were my best decade for hair production.  My parents have pictures of me at a young age in lurid paisley colours with an Osmond-like hair helmet.  Those pictures are safely under lock and key. By the mid-90s, I was in remedial trichology.  My hairline was under assault from above and below: my scalp was covered by only a sketchy film of strands.  It was time to take stock.  I took the advice of Quentin Crisp on the subject:…

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Double blow for SNP in new YouGov Scotland poll: support for independence down & more MP losses projected

Double blow for SNP in new YouGov Scotland poll: support for independence down & more MP losses projected

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New Times YouGov Scotland poll suggests SNP could be DOWN 8 to 27 Westminster seats at next GE. At GE2015 Sturgeon's party won 56 of Scotland's 59 seats https://t.co/GbyYxsinuN pic.twitter.com/PDC394lsdl — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) January 17, 2018 YouGov Times Scotland poll finds Support for independence dwindles https://t.co/GbyYxsinuN pic.twitter.com/uzI4z5RDZb — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) January 17, 2018 But they should still be top party at Holyrood We get so few Scotland only polls these days that when a new one comes out,…

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Only problem Paul (Mason) is that Corbyn’s LAB needs 7-10% vote lead to win majority

Only problem Paul (Mason) is that Corbyn’s LAB needs 7-10% vote lead to win majority

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18/ Our biggest challenge is to maintain Labour as an alliance of social democrats, left-liberals, old-style Bennite socialists and radical leftists – and to turn it into a, or more accurately towards the, social movements.. — Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) January 16, 2018 We are miles away from seeing the required LAB vote breakthrough Mike Smithson Follow @MSmithsonPB Tweet

Seat projection from today’s ICM poll has CON ahead on MPs even though behind on votes

Seat projection from today’s ICM poll has CON ahead on MPs even though behind on votes

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When’s the Corbyn Clique going to work out that the system now works against LAB? The latest ICM Guardian poll out and the figures – C40/LB41/LD7 – are included above in the seat projection from Martin Baxter’s Electoral Calculus. As can be seen that although the Conservatives are one point behind on votes this, according to the projection, will put them one ahead in terms of seats. This reflects a big trend that first was noticed at GE2015 when the…

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Jared O’Mara is what happens if your candidate is chosen by the party without a proper selection process

Jared O’Mara is what happens if your candidate is chosen by the party without a proper selection process

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Yorkshire's missing MP: In Tomorrow's The Yorkshire Post our Features & Comment section demands answers on behalf of Sheffield Hallam residents – particularly the 21,000 people who put Jared O'Mara in his £74,000-a-year job. pic.twitter.com/T21Jhvm7am — James Mitchinson (@JayMitchinson) January 15, 2018 Jared O’Mara’s office said in December he is working “very hard” for the people of Sheffield Hallam. But his office manager won’t say when the MP last turned up for work and when asked if she could give…

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Never forget that the vast majority of those who voted for Trump are happy with their President

Never forget that the vast majority of those who voted for Trump are happy with their President

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A recent YouGov/The Economist survey found almost 90% of Trump voters think the President is doing a good overall job #BBCPanorama pic.twitter.com/W0USzmEeWN — BBC Panorama (@BBCPanorama) January 15, 2018 And the betting continues to point to his survival UK punters on Betfair continue to bet on Trump’s survival pic.twitter.com/cnHgavmDqY — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) January 15, 2018 Mike Smithson Follow @MSmithsonPB Tweet

The coming West Tyrone by-election would only matter if the winner took his/her seat at Westminster

The coming West Tyrone by-election would only matter if the winner took his/her seat at Westminster

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Wikipedia The seat will have land border with the Irish Republic and EU following Brexit At last we have the first by-election of the 2017 Parliament. It is in West Tyrone in Northern Ireland where the sitting Sinn Fein MP has decided to resign following controversy over things that he posted on the internet. Given that following his party’s normal practice he has never taken his seat at Westminster the margins from last June look so great that the coming…

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