Hello! I'm Mark Pack, author of 101 Ways To Win An Election, and the maintainer of the largest database of national voting intention polls in the UK, stretching back to 1943. Welcome to a round-up of the latest general election voting intention figures from each of the polling firms currently active in the UK. Below the table, you'll find the option to sign up to email updates about new polls and also a set of answers to frequently asked questions about political polling. The ComRes vote share changes below are from the previous ComRes poll carried out over 2-5 December. ...
Disappointed to find that the bookshops in Nottingham's Mansfield Road had gone, I blogged about it as soon as I got home. A little further down the hill, I was taken with what looked as though it had once been the entrance to the city's Bluecoat School and is now the YMCA International Community Centre. I had the feeling that the entrance used to be wider and, sure enough, when I bought a book of old photos of the city later that afternoon I found this little ghost.
Three new constituency opinion polls by Deltapoll and published by The Observer are out, covering Guildford, Putney and Southport. Guildford, constituency voting intention: LDEM: 41% (+17) CON: 40% (-15) LAB: 11% (-8) IND: (A. Milton): 7% (+7) via @DeltapollUK , 28 Nov – 02 Dec Chgs. w/ GE2017 — Britain Elects (@britainelects) December 7, 2019
"Those of us who are left of centre in rural areas are often completely missed from political discourse, despite our long history of distinctive political belief." Oliver Craven on the Liberal Democrat pitch to the rural left. Comfort of a sort from Richard Heller, who argues that if Boris Johnson wins on Thursday Brexit won't get done and he will soon be the most unpopular leader in British history. "All this explains why Tory support depends so much upon the legacy vote from older people and upon the populist slogan, 'Get Brexit Done'. Their historic client base has shrunk. Sure, ...
Being of the left but an opponent of Labour I thought I'd have a look at the leaflets they've put out in the Sefton Central Constituency. The striking thing is that in the ones I've seen there's virtually no mention of Jeremy Corbyn or indeed Brexit. When political parties all but ignore their own leaders in leaflets you can bet that they're thinking that mentioning them will be a negative influence on voters. And I should know my party had Nick Clegg as its leader some years ago! So we can read into this that Jeremy Corbyn is not felt ...
Watch the new video from Amnesty International UK, making a powerful point about how helping people in distress is something to be welcomed not criminalised.
Change.org has published a People Power Index measuring how responsive MPs were to their constituents during the 2017-19 session. The rankings put Daniel Kawczynski, who was MP for Shrewsbury & Atcham, close to the bottom. Mark Pritchard, who represented the Wrekin, is even worse. Philip Dunne, Ludlow, is more than halfway down the rankings though very close to the mediocre average for the Tories. Lucy Allen in Telford scores highest for Shropshire's five MPs during. Looking at the parties standing in Shropshire, the Lib Dems top the People Power Index for responsiveness (though beaten by Caroline Lucas, the sole Green ...
Sat 7th
17:50
Trivial Fact of the Day connects the assassination of President Kennedy with Harry Connick Jr
If you have ever disappeared down the JFK assassination rabbit hold, or simply seen Oliver Stone's film, you will know all about the New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. It was he who brought an unsuccessful prosecution against the New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw for conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. In 1973 Garrison was defeated in the election for district attorney by Harry Connick, who was to hold the post for the next 30 years. As Wikipedia explains, Connick intervened in the aftermath of the prosecution of Shaw: In 1995, while District Attorney, Connick promised to the Assassination Records Review ...
No it isn’t. And here’s what parties are actually doing during the day.
My Fair Lady won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1964, and picked up another seven: Best Director (George Cukor), Best Actor (Rex Harrison as Higgins), Best Cinematography (Harry Stradling), Best Sound, Best Adaptation or Treatment Score (André Previn), Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design (Cecil Beaton). Stanley Holloway and Gladys Cooper were nominated in supporting roles as the protagonists' parents (Eliza's father and Higgins' mother), beaten by Peter Ustinov in Topkapi and Lila Kedrova in Zorba the Greek respectively. The other Best Picture nominees were Becket and Zorba the Greek, which I have not seen, and Dr. Strangelove ...
Sat 7th
12:20
What I learned about football after a ten year absence - and what I think that taught me about moder...
It started with my daughter taking an interest in Fulham Football Club. This happened after some players from Fulham had come to her school. Given Craven Cottage is located miles away from her school in south London, I thought this was somewhat peculiar, but I had no reason to think she was making it up. And even if she was, I was now being presented with a chance to go to a football match for the first time in a decade. The last time I had attended a match live was in 2009. It was England v Belarus in a ...
Fri, 12:56: Floella Benjamin: 'They sent the police to arrest us' https://t.co/cKYg9XY2Df Brilliant interview with the great @floellabenjamin. Fri, 14:55: Interesting that Blair won in 2005 despite being 15 points less popular than Michael Howard. https://t.co/BmKZ2qYpZS Fri, 15:37: RT @MSmithsonPB: @nwbrux That's because the chart shows net ratings. Blair had higher positive numbers than Howard Fri, 16:05: What rich countries get wrong about the EU budget https://t.co/x8qM5fjt5n Good piece from Romanian MEP @clotilde_armand. Fri, 16:08: Grim reading from @pmdfoster on the impact of Boris's deal on Northern Ireland. Still not as bad as a No Deal Brexi... https://t.co/OZibCCypBY Fri, 17:11: ...
Research by the environmental charity, Hubbub suggests that Britons' love of novelty Christmas jumpers is helping to fuel the world's plastic pollution crisis. The Guardian reports that Hubbub has shown that because most new sweaters contain plastic, the garment has become one of the worst examples of fast fashion, now recognised as hugely damaging to the environment. Its analysis of 108 garments on sale this year from 11 high street and online retailers - including Primark, George at Asda and Topshop/Topman - found that 95% of the jumpers were made wholly or partly of plastic materials. Twelve million jumpers are ...
There's just five campaigning days left in the General Election. All of a sudden you seem to go from "Oh yikes, how the hell will I survive 5 weeks of this?" to "Oh Yikes, there's only five days to do all this?" What matters to us all on Friday morning is the number of Lib Dem MPs we have. Noble third places count for nothing. If you are not in one of the seats we hope to win on Thursday, please either get to your nearest one, or make phone calls from your own home into it. The party has ...
Almost one million businesses in the UK have closed in the past three years, analysis by the Liberal Democrats has revealed, showing how Brexit uncertainty under the Conservatives is hitting our high streets.It comes as the Liberal Democrats today (Saturday 7 December) unveil a series of measures to reverse this decline and boost small businesses, to mark Small Business Saturday.Figures from the ONS show that 978,285 businesses closed their doors between 2016-2018. This is an increase of almost a third (28%) compared to the 765,000 businesses that closed in the three previous years. The Federation of Small Businesses has warned ...
