Momentum strategy for getting Corbyn elected….. not a spoof …..#GE2017 pic.twitter.com/lMfxDTsjgD — Otto English (@Otto_English) April 20, 2017 Momentum Hackney have some betting advice… pic.twitter.com/e93VaM1si4 — Ladbrokes Politics (@LadPolitics) April 20, 2017
Wikipedia Tuesday’s shock announcement by Mrs May that there is to be an early UK General Election has rather overshadowed events in France where the country’s presidential election takes place on Sunday. In political betting terms this overshadows the British General Election period with over the past week £1.4m being matched on Betfair alone. Sunday sees the first round and if none of the candidates secures 50% of the votes cast, which is highly likely, then there will be a…
The CPS could play a role like the FBI’s Comey in the closing campaign stages The veteran Labour firebrand, Dennis Skinner, raised the Tory GE2015 campaign expenses investigation in usual style at PMQs yesterday. The prime minister responded in her usual style as well and appeared to back all the MPs involved. But we do know that the Crown Prosecution Service have said that charges are being considered against 30+ individuals and the timescale of this means that there will…
EXC: Tonight Tories on 48% in the first YouGov poll taken since Theresa May called election – highest since May 2008 pic.twitter.com/awaKs7V0Yv — Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) April 19, 2017 What that @YouGov poll would look like at a general election. Tory majority of 186 pic.twitter.com/bRqvp6qmIx — TSE (@TSEofPB) April 19, 2017 As Labour head for the mother and father of all shellackings, if Corbyn had any honour or love for Labour he’d stand down now but INDEPENDENT DIGITAL Revealed:…
A guest slot by Harry Spencer Calling an early General Election is, by definition, something usually undertaken by a government confident of winning. And with opinion poll leads well in double figures, and an utterly hapless opposition this is certainly a pretty fair assessment. I don’t necessarily disagree with the idea the Conservatives will win a much-expanded majority, but precedent for snap General Elections is…mixed. Defining snap elections as early elections voluntarily undertaken by a government which already has a…
In 2011, Ruth Ellen Brosseau was a bartender in Ottawa, Canada’s capital. Some of her regulars were political activists for the New Democratic Party and when the federal election was looming, they twisted her arm to stand as a paper candidate in a no-hoper constituency in a heavily French-speaking area of Quebec. She didn’t campaign (just as well, since her French wasn’t very good), she didn’t even visit the constituency. During the election campaign she went on holiday in Vegas….
Many of the Labour MPs who will be voting for a general election this afternoon will be doing so in the pretty certain knowledge that they are ending their political careers earlier than planned. Turkeys will indeed be voting for Christmas and I just wonder how many will not participate in this afternoon’s vote. The numbers for the party are just calling and it is very hard seeing how there can be any change over the next seven weeks that….
BREAKING: The CPS have told Channel 4 News tonight that they are considering charges against more than 30 individuals. #electionexpenses — alex thomson (@alextomo) April 18, 2017 Charges during the election campaign could damage the Tories and Mrs May. Note: 30 individuals might not mean 30 MPs, it might mean 15 MPs and 15 agents TSE