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A message to the Labour Party: Get better soon… 22 Apr 2013 | 10:49 pm
In many ways, the current position of the commentariat should be seen as a compliment to Labour: it’s not often that people can look at a poll lead of just short of ten percentage points and start ask...
After Eastleigh: Labour 3 Mar 2013 | 10:58 pm
After Eastleigh – TOC 1. The LibDems 2. UKIP 3. The Conservatives 4. Labour Did Labour have a bad night or a good night? Their vote share held up, in fact it increased (albeit by 0.22%), giving them t...
After Eastleigh: the Conservatives 3 Mar 2013 | 10:56 pm
After Eastleigh – TOC 1. The LibDems 2. UKIP 3. The Conservatives 4. Labour It’s hard to know what has been the biggest disaster for the Tories in this By-Election: the campaign, the result, or the af...
After Eastleigh: UKIP 3 Mar 2013 | 10:54 pm
After Eastleigh – TOC 1. The LibDems 2. UKIP 3. The Conservatives 4. Labour Another ‘best ever’ result for UKIP, with momentum clearly on their side: they kept their deposit in Oldham East and Saddlew...
After Eastleigh: the LibDems 3 Mar 2013 | 10:52 pm
After Eastleigh – TOC 1. The LibDems 2. UKIP 3. The Conservatives 4. Labour It should have been the perfect storm: the LibDems have been the electoral whipping boys of UK politics from the moment the ...
The choice under Cameron: Less Europe or No Europe 24 Jan 2013 | 02:08 am
All I can think of today is George Robertson’s infamous utterance, eighteen years ago, that devolution would ‘kill Nationalism stone dead’. Today there’s a majority for the SNP in the Scottish Parliam...
Independents for Independence 24 Oct 2012 | 01:02 am
This was the kind of day that moves a man to dust the blog off – if only for an evening, as the SNP Leadership’s victory over NATO finally drove SNP stalwarts John Finnie and Jean Urquhart (now both M...
What does the latest poll mean for the May elections? 12 Mar 2012 | 03:10 am
Seeing as the latest YouGov poll didn’t address the question of the May local elections. one might imagine the answer to that question to be ‘very little’, but I was intrigued when James addressed the...
Game on! 16 Jan 2012 | 11:41 am
What a week! Of course the independence referendum has been on the horizon for some time, in the past seven days it suddenly became real, as the UK Government woke up to the reality of the SNP’s plan,...
Just for the record… 16 Sep 2011 | 07:01 am
…I haven’t fallen down a hole. It’d need to be a pretty big hole for me to fall down it without getting stuck anyway! But I thought that following Stuart‘s post, I’d better stick my head above the pa...
