Here are the latest general election voting intention figures from each of the main pollsters currently polling in the UK, including ones featuring The Independent Group (TIG). Where pollsters both ask a voting intention question with TIG and one without, both of those results feature below. New in this weekend are two Delta voting results, showing a big move to Labour and a far less dramatic Opinium one showing only a one point net change in the gap between Labour and Conservatives. More details on the Delta results will be added as they come through. Pollster Con Lab LibDem Ukip ...
Last night, Beaconsfield Conservative Association passed a vote of no confidence in their MP, Dominic Grieve, former Attorney General and articulate proponent of a new referendum to extract Britain from its Brexit impasse. A video secretly filmed at the meeting and publicised in tomorrow's Sunday Times shows Mr Grieve patiently explaining why No Deal would [...]
Last July, more than two years after the EU referendum delivered a narrow victory for the Leave campaign. the Electoral Commission published a report in which they outlined how the campaign had broken electoral law. The Commission found that Vote Leave had illegally colluded with BeLeave, a campaign run by Darren Grimes: All Mr Grimes' and BeLeave's spending on referendum campaigning was incurred under a common plan with Vote Leave. Vote Leave should have declared the amount of joint spending in its referendum spending return and therefore failed to deliver a complete campaign spending return. Vote Leave's referendum spending was ...
All that campaigning is paying off. Today was meant to be Britain's first full day outside the European Union. But all that campaigning has paid off, and we're still in the EU.
Imagine you are a carrier of something that could be deadly. As a carrier you could passively, inadvertently, through absolutely no fault of your own bring about harm, even mortal harm, to your newborn child? What if the NHS, though it had the opportunity to find out, did not trouble to screen you for this thing you carry and therefore offer you the anti-biotics in childbirth which would keep your baby safe? Sounds awful doesn't it? But the NHS fails to screen pregnant women and provide them with the information that they might carry Group B Streptococcus. As a result ...
It's that time once again, when a parish councillor's thoughts turn to the question of re-election. Given my occasionally erratic presence on Creeting St Peter Parish Council - I've been co-opted twice and resigned once, so the electoral cycle appears not to have taken - I've only previously put in one set of nomination papers, eight years ago, so it's been a case of making sure I got the forms printed, completed and signed. Fortunately, despite many distractions, I managed to get it done this week, and so wandered around the corner from my conveniently located office to Endeavour House, ...
It's a bit perturbing reading media coverage of the Liberal Democrats at the moment. Stories about the party's imminent leadership race keep on appearing and, slightly out of character, are broadly accurate. Speculation about who might run and who might win pretty much match up with what I see from the inside (as discussed with Stephen Tall in our podcast, Never Mind The Bar Charts). Included in that is the latest Business Insider piece on the party, highlighting two key issues. First, the growing support for the idea of some sort of umbrella arrangement between Change UK – The Independent ...
Last weekend's People's Vote March passed off peacefully. I missed it because it was my daughters birthday but it would have been an amazing family atmosphere. Yesterday by contrast, saw disgraceful scenes outside Parliament. A Channel 4 film crew was jostled by pro Brexit protestors. One person was arrested for assaulting a police officer in central London and additional arrests were made. Frankly we should hardly be surprised. Perhaps this was a reaction to Nigel Farage's call for a "revolution" to save British politics in the Daily Telegraph on Brexit day? In 2017, Farage also told us that he would ...
Fri, 12:29: RT @damonwake: Interesting perspective from a man who knows Brussels inside out. A counterpoint to the Brexiteers queuing up to tell @BBCr4... Fri, 13:15: RT @AndrewDuffEU: Labour's posturing is preposterous. There may well be valid criticisms of the WA, but the Opposition is not finding them.... Fri, 13:15: RT @purves_peter: Exciting day today. A round trip of about 16 hours but worth it to attend the screening of Mission to the Unknown at UCLA... Fri, 13:28: RT @JulietEMcKenna: Astute analysis from @nwbrux. A man to follow hereabouts. https://t.co/C3fKoxktUJ Fri, 13:30: RT @davidallengreen: Raab to vote for a Deal ...
There is a well-known manoeuvre in public relations in which a heavy news day is used to release controversial or damaging stories in the hope that nobody will notice. The most notorious example of the was the email sent by UK Government spin doctor, Jo Moore, as New York's twin towers burned, suggesting that 11 September was a good day to "bury" bad news. Yesterday, as hundreds of excitable and confrontational protestors surrounded Parliament to demand that the Government should respect the 2016 referendum result, and leave the EU as scheduled at 11pm that evening, and as MPs debated Theresa ...
I suspect I was far from the only Liberal Democrat who had a stiff drink pre-arranged for 11pm last night , to drown my sorrows if the UK did crash out of the European Union. The notice of a reprieve was quite short, but for Remainers the threat still hangs over us, like the sword of Damocles. As Article 50 moves into extra time, the EU has made clear that it is serious that 12 April is the next deadline, just two weeks away, when a No Deal scenario will snap into effect as the default option unless the British ...
Lydiate residents will most probably have seen the article in this weeks Aintree & Maghull Champion regarding requests for a bus shelter on the A59/Northway adjacent to the Kenyons Lane traffic lights. I've also raised this with Merseytravel recently following a Lydiate resident asking for a shelter at this spot on the Lydiate & Neighbours FB Group in a thread that I posted about a bus shelter being removed in Moss Lane, Lydiate. The shelter being removed is one that served the old 311 route that provided a good service between Lydiate and Ormskirk. Obviously the response as printed in ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - SATURDAY 30 AND SUNDAY 31 MARCH 2019 Perth Road (Hyndford Street to Blackness Avenue) - off-peak temporary traffic lights and lane closures from Thursday 28 to Saturday 30 March for BT work. Meadowside/Reform Street/High Street/Nethergate/Park Place - closed on Saturday 30 March (12.45pm - 3.45pm) for Trans Pride Parade. Forthcoming Roadworks Glamis Drive - Invergowrie Drive to Hillside Road (Phase 1) and Hillside Road to Glamis Road (Phase 2) - closed in phases as stated for Monday 15 April for 2 weeks for footway resurfacing works. Only ...
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