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SystemSystem Posts: 12,213
edited July 4 in General
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  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,507
    Its looking about as good for England in the cricket as the Tories in the GE.
  • HeathenerHeathener Posts: 7,084
    Anyone have the dates for the MRP polling? I’m sure they’re in there somewhere but I can’t see them.

    Thanks x
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,507
    edited June 15
    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 10,061
    'Only' a 16 point lead - one assumes therefore an equally high number of very narrow Labour wins here, the lead is 2 points less than the YouGov MRP giving 140 seats to the Tories........
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,142
    wooliedyed said:

    'Only' a 16 point lead - one assumes therefore an equally high number of very narrow Labour wins here, the lead is 2 points less than the YouGov MRP giving 140 seats to the Tories........

    I suspect the Tory vote is hugely inefficient. Losing marginals but piling up votes in the few remaining strongholds.
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 10,061
    Heathener said:

    Anyone have the dates for the MRP polling? I’m sure they’re in there somewhere but I can’t see them.

    Thanks x

    31 May to 13 June (I think)
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,959
    Seats Reform win according to the MRP

    Ashfield

    Clacton

    Exmouth & Exeter East

    Great Yarmouth

    Mid Leicestershire

    North West Norfolk

    South Suffolk
  • Peter_the_PunterPeter_the_Punter Posts: 14,466
    edited June 15
    ThanksTSE.

    Have to agree with you - SNP and Reform are a buy, Tories a sell.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,472
    edited June 15
    Still no idea where those 7 Reform seats are.
    I am looking at Lincolnshire, Essex, and East Anglia.
    Not the Red Wall.

    Edit. See it's there. And I'm pretty much right.
  • ArtistArtist Posts: 1,893
    7 Reform seats really? They're nowhere near winning anywhere outside Clacton, Boston and Ashfield.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 23,890
    edited June 15
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000

    Without me looking it up (I will later if necessary), can anyone concisely explain how this different from the Public Sector Equality Duty? PSED is proactive.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,472
    Farooq said:

    It feels like the slight fluctuations in Labour's polling numbers matter little in England, but hugely in Scotland. Those cheering for a downtick in Labour's fortunes are (probably unwittingly) cheering the SNP on to a majority of Scottish seats.

    FWIW I think the SNP will not achieve that seat total, but it remains possible.

    Then again. If the Tory government seems certain to be ousted, then there's less incentive for folk to desert the SNP.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Seats Reform win according to the MRP

    Ashfield

    Clacton

    Exmouth & Exeter East

    Great Yarmouth

    Mid Leicestershire

    North West Norfolk

    South Suffolk

    @Foxy is in Mid Leicestershire. Will he have to vote Tory to keep Reform out??
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,937
    So much for Reform/Conservative cross-over.....
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 10,061
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Seats Reform win according to the MRP

    Ashfield

    Clacton

    Exmouth & Exeter East

    Great Yarmouth

    Mid Leicestershire

    North West Norfolk

    South Suffolk

    NW Norfolk. Lmao. No chance.
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 10,061
    Mortimer said:

    wooliedyed said:

    'Only' a 16 point lead - one assumes therefore an equally high number of very narrow Labour wins here, the lead is 2 points less than the YouGov MRP giving 140 seats to the Tories........

    I suspect the Tory vote is hugely inefficient. Losing marginals but piling up votes in the few remaining strongholds.
    That assumption is being modelled here, yes, definitely
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Its looking about as good for England in the cricket as the Tories in the GE.

    Apparently we can get on the pitch as late as 2146 BST - so plenty of time. The BBC forecaster chap reckons it should clear up later.
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 21,704
    MarqueeMark said:

    So much for Reform/Conservative cross-over.....

    How’s is going MM? Still going strong. Here in Sussex, it seems that reports of the death of the Conservative Party were greatly exaggerated.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,507
    Anabobazina said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Its looking about as good for England in the cricket as the Tories in the GE.

    Apparently we can get on the pitch as late as 2146 BST - so plenty of time. The BBC forecaster chap reckons it should clear up later.
    5 over game a side is a proper lottery.
  • MisterBedfordshireMisterBedfordshire Posts: 2,252
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000

    Which means they will likely face a huge economic crises before their first term is out (along the lines of having to raise interest rates significantly to shift gilts and shore up the £). The government is already spending more on interest than defence and education combined).
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,778
    Has this Savanta poll been posted?
    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,507
    MisterBedfordshire said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000

    Which means they will likely face a huge economic crises before their first term is out (along the lines of having to raise interest rates significantly to shift gilts and shore up the £). The government is already spending more on interest than defence and education combined).
    The worry is you also open the flood gates to the Birmingham style legal challenges (which is what bust it).
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,472
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Seats Reform win according to the MRP

    Ashfield

    Clacton

    Exmouth & Exeter East

    Great Yarmouth

    Mid Leicestershire

    North West Norfolk

    South Suffolk

    Wot no Boston?
    And isn't the Exmouth one a function of the Claire (?) Wright vote?
    She isn't standing. And her voters certainly aren't Faragists.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,959
    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 17,449
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Its looking about as good for England in the cricket as the Tories in the GE.

    Rishi would be very happy if the election could be rained off and declared a draw
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Anabobazina said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Its looking about as good for England in the cricket as the Tories in the GE.

    Apparently we can get on the pitch as late as 2146 BST - so plenty of time. The BBC forecaster chap reckons it should clear up later.
    5 over game a side is a proper lottery.
    True but I’d back us in that scenario. TBH I’d take that now if you offered me if. Seriously worried we are going to left rained out here, and let the Scots through in the bargain. When did we last best them in any major sport? Seems like they have the wood over us.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,507
    edited June 15
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970

    By the point normally we start to see polling coming together, instead we have crazy difference in numbers.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970

    Possibly a manifesto bounce for Labour there, but MOE.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,959
    Peter_the_Punter said:

    ThanksTSE.

    Have to agree with you - SNP and Reform are a buy, Tories a sell.

    It's time when we're going to need balls of steel.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,472
    Stuartinromford said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Its looking about as good for England in the cricket as the Tories in the GE.

    Rishi would be very happy if the election could be rained off and declared a draw
    Well. His campaign started well on that front.
  • Peter_the_PunterPeter_the_Punter Posts: 14,466
    Btw, TSE, that Survation poll puts SED within 16 seats of being LOTO, so that 7/2 we were talking about earlier looks even better now.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,691
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970

    So it's an MRP modelled on that?

    Hmm. Interesting.
  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Posts: 1,313
    dixiedean said:

    Farooq said:

    It feels like the slight fluctuations in Labour's polling numbers matter little in England, but hugely in Scotland. Those cheering for a downtick in Labour's fortunes are (probably unwittingly) cheering the SNP on to a majority of Scottish seats.

    FWIW I think the SNP will not achieve that seat total, but it remains possible.

    Then again. If the Tory government seems certain to be ousted, then there's less incentive for folk to desert the SNP.
    There was a council by-election in West Dunbartonshire a couple of days ago (Clydebank Central), where SLAB got 49.6% of the vote compared to the SNP's 38.9%. Two years previously the SNP had won said seat by a double digit margin.
    That MRP projection for the SNP is bullshit.
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 6,277
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970

    Reform still 8 points behind the Tories . I’m surprised Labour have gone up after other recent polls.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,691
    SNP seem overcooked in this.

    Sample size?
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 51,101
    MisterBedfordshire said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000

    Which means they will likely face a huge economic crises before their first term is out (along the lines of having to raise interest rates significantly to shift gilts and shore up the £). The government is already spending more on interest than defence and education combined).
    The worst thing won’t be councils going bust.

    It would be trying to hand legislation to the courts - something the courts have resisted.

    Politicians will become very interested in controlling who is on the Supreme Court.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,014
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Its looking about as good for England in the cricket as the Tories in the GE.

    On the positive side this gives Scotland automatic qualification for the next T20 World Cup.
  • WhisperingOracleWhisperingOracle Posts: 9,259
    edited June 15
    Either Yougov are very off the mark, or very right.

    These are giving a picture shrivelled of a Tory party, not an apocalypse.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,376
    Gosh!
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,534
    nico679 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970

    Reform still 8 points behind the Tories . I’m surprised Labour have gone up after other recent polls.
    It’s an obvious outlier.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,691
    Peter_the_Punter said:

    ThanksTSE.

    Have to agree with you - SNP and Reform are a buy, Tories a sell.

    I wouldn't sell the Tories at 108.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,612
    MisterBedfordshire said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000

    Which means they will likely face a huge economic crises before their first term is out (along the lines of having to raise interest rates significantly to shift gilts and shore up the £). The government is already spending more on interest than defence and education combined).
    Really?

    You think that provision is going to cause "a huge economic crises"?

    I think it's a stupid idea to have public sector bodies focused on anything other than value for money. But the idea that this - rather than say, the inability of the UK to pay its way in the world - is going to cause a huge economic "crises" it's patently absurd.
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 10,061
    nico679 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970

    Reform still 8 points behind the Tories . I’m surprised Labour have gone up after other recent polls.
    Soon see if its a trend or noise I guess, but it's a big score compared to others for sure. Tories in the mud in this one, savanta have swung all the way from a 14 point to 25 point lead in 10 days.........
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,472
    edited June 15
    Listening to R5L news. Four stories.
    King and Kate's appearance at TTC.
    Followed by Kevin Campbell.
    Then the runaway cow.
    Finally the E coli outbreak.

    Followed by an advert which began "You don't need us to tell you there's a General Election coming."
    Apparently we don't.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,612
    Casino_Royale said:

    Peter_the_Punter said:

    ThanksTSE.

    Have to agree with you - SNP and Reform are a buy, Tories a sell.

    I wouldn't sell the Tories at 108.
    Me neither.

    I might buy Reform because of asymmetrical risk reward, but that's about it.
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,142
    edited June 15
    Casino_Royale said:

    Peter_the_Punter said:

    ThanksTSE.

    Have to agree with you - SNP and Reform are a buy, Tories a sell.

    I wouldn't sell the Tories at 108.
    I'm not going to be dabbling in the spreads this time.

    But.

    Almost every Tory I know won't be voting Tory this time.

    I'd take 108 any day. Suspect reality could be a lot worse.
  • MisterBedfordshireMisterBedfordshire Posts: 2,252
    nico679 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970

    Reform still 8 points behind the Tories . I’m surprised Labour have gone up after other recent polls.
    Are they one of the pollsters who don't prompt for Reform unless someone says "other"?
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,534
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    MisterBedfordshire said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000

    Which means they will likely face a huge economic crises before their first term is out (along the lines of having to raise interest rates significantly to shift gilts and shore up the £). The government is already spending more on interest than defence and education combined).
    The worry is you also open the flood gates to the Birmingham style legal challenges (which is what bust it).
    Yes, it’s a terrible idea, and it would likely sink Labour. That’s a ticking timebomb. People may tolerate jacking up taxes to preserve services. They won’t tolerate local authorities jacking up taxes to reduce inequality.
  • FF43FF43 Posts: 17,239
    Mortimer said:

    FF43 said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    There seems to be a bit of an air of f##k business / rich people creeping in. Haven't we already had enough of that over the past 5 years?

    Tsk. Tax the rich, not fuck the rich. Maximising tax should be the aim. Better for rich people to pay than poor people and there are big bills to cover.

    If some people go into tax exile you have probably set the rates correctly for maximum revenue. If everyone does, you need to think again.
    Perhaps we should ask why some in our wealthy country are so reliant upon the money of others?
    It's a good question. Largely they aren't. It is surprisingly difficult to get data on all tax versus all benefit across the income groups. This data from ten years ago probably hasn't changed much in the meantime. The richest 10% do pay a bit more than their share but not vastly more.



    https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/14853/economics/income-inequality-by-income-decile/

  • CleitophonCleitophon Posts: 489
    Sean_F said:

    nico679 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970

    Reform still 8 points behind the Tories . I’m surprised Labour have gone up after other recent polls.
    It’s an obvious outlier.
    Surely the 1% difference in yougov was the outlier
  • MisterBedfordshireMisterBedfordshire Posts: 2,252
    Sean_F said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    MisterBedfordshire said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000

    Which means they will likely face a huge economic crises before their first term is out (along the lines of having to raise interest rates significantly to shift gilts and shore up the £). The government is already spending more on interest than defence and education combined).
    The worry is you also open the flood gates to the Birmingham style legal challenges (which is what bust it).
    Yes, it’s a terrible idea, and it would likely sink Labour. That’s a ticking timebomb. People may tolerate jacking up taxes to preserve services. They won’t tolerate local authorities jacking up taxes to reduce inequality.
    Absolute Catnip to Farage
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 51,101
    rcs1000 said:

    MisterBedfordshire said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000

    Which means they will likely face a huge economic crises before their first term is out (along the lines of having to raise interest rates significantly to shift gilts and shore up the £). The government is already spending more on interest than defence and education combined).
    Really?

    You think that provision is going to cause "a huge economic crises"?

    I think it's a stupid idea to have public sector bodies focused on anything other than value for money. But the idea that this - rather than say, the inability of the UK to pay its way in the world - is going to cause a huge economic "crises" it's patently absurd.
    The question is - how many Birminghams would it create?
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,691
    Sean_F said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    MisterBedfordshire said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000

    Which means they will likely face a huge economic crises before their first term is out (along the lines of having to raise interest rates significantly to shift gilts and shore up the £). The government is already spending more on interest than defence and education combined).
    The worry is you also open the flood gates to the Birmingham style legal challenges (which is what bust it).
    Yes, it’s a terrible idea, and it would likely sink Labour. That’s a ticking timebomb. People may tolerate jacking up taxes to preserve services. They won’t tolerate local authorities jacking up taxes to reduce inequality.
    And, they'll probably do it anyway.

    Wokery is encoded into their core DNA. And, it's going to prove deeply unpopular.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 23,890
    MisterBedfordshire said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000

    Which means they will likely face a huge economic crises before their first term is out (along the lines of having to raise interest rates significantly to shift gilts and shore up the £). The government is already spending more on interest than defence and education combined).
    TBH I don't think I see a huge impact. It is a duty to "consider", not to implement, and it doesn't look retrospective.

    Though I would probably try and use it to try and lever a policy to consider pedestrians better onto my Local Highways Authority.
  • Peter_the_PunterPeter_the_Punter Posts: 14,466
    rcs1000 said:

    Casino_Royale said:

    Peter_the_Punter said:

    ThanksTSE.

    Have to agree with you - SNP and Reform are a buy, Tories a sell.

    I wouldn't sell the Tories at 108.
    Me neither.

    I might buy Reform because of asymmetrical risk reward, but that's about it.
    I agree, selling at 108 is high risk, but all the evidence is suggesting they will come in lower than that. Betfair is probably more the more accurate predictor, and that is suggesting 80/90 seats.

    Reform is definitely a buy. So too LDs, probably.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,937
    Jonathan said:

    MarqueeMark said:

    So much for Reform/Conservative cross-over.....

    How’s is going MM? Still going strong. Here in Sussex, it seems that reports of the death of the Conservative Party were greatly exaggerated.
    The 60+ age group is still strong. Which down here is a chunk of votes...

    Yes, we've undoubtedly lost some. But not half, as the polls are saying.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,691
    MisterBedfordshire said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000

    Which means they will likely face a huge economic crises before their first term is out (along the lines of having to raise interest rates significantly to shift gilts and shore up the £). The government is already spending more on interest than defence and education combined).
    I said on here yesterday that SKS could be a one-term PM, and got pilloried for it.

    I must say, I'm looking forward to being hailed as a great prophet if (when) it happens.
  • NovoNovo Posts: 60
    edited June 15
    Survation and Savanta are at the top end of favourability to the Conservatives. I suspect there is a lot worse to come
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,165
    Sir Philip on Sky News.

    It's the media to blame.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,507
    SandyRentool said:

    Sir Philip on Sky News.

    It's the media to blame.

    For the rain in the cricket?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,959
    Obligatory 'SKS fans please explain?' post.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 23,890
    Thanks for the header @TSE (now I've read it).

    Very kind of you to delete your comment so that I am now first.

    FIRST !!!!
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 6,277
    Ordinarily the right wing media would come to the Tories aid by laying into the party that’s causing it huge problems . But many of those outlets seem quite happy with Reform .

  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,691
    Mortimer said:

    Casino_Royale said:

    Peter_the_Punter said:

    ThanksTSE.

    Have to agree with you - SNP and Reform are a buy, Tories a sell.

    I wouldn't sell the Tories at 108.
    I'm not going to be dabbling in the spreads this time.

    But.

    Almost every Tory I know won't be voting Tory this time.

    I'd take 108 any day. Suspect reality could be a lot worse.
    I don't play the spreads.

    I don't like how SPIN run them.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,165
    SandyRentool said:

    Sir Philip on Sky News.

    It's the media to blame.

    Casting aspersions on YouGov now.
  • TimSTimS Posts: 13,214
    Some lovely memeing on that Savanta:

    https://x.com/faqtories/status/1802035568555028795?s=46
  • Clutch_BromptonClutch_Brompton Posts: 737
    My local advice to folk is not to bet on Reform winning North West Norfolk.

    Meanwhile reports of cross-over by Reform seem rather exaggerated
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,382
    So has nobody seen "The Legend of Ruby Sunday"?
  • MisterBedfordshireMisterBedfordshire Posts: 2,252
    nico679 said:

    Ordinarily the right wing media would come to the Tories aid by laying into the party that’s causing it huge problems . But many of those outlets seem quite happy with Reform .

    The Mail and Telegraph have been putting the boot in, but not as comprehensively as previously.

    Which was the election where Hitchens the right was taken off air by the Mail for several weeks during his Conservative Delenda Est phase?
  • WhisperingOracleWhisperingOracle Posts: 9,259
    edited June 15
    These Reform scores are poor.

    I expect Nige will be very disappionted, because some of these will include fieldwork after the Yougov by now, I expect. Where is the snowball factor of people apparently wanting to jump on the bandwagon, that you might have expected ? If it's not in evidence this weekend, I doubt it will suddenly arrive later on.
  • Clutch_BromptonClutch_Brompton Posts: 737
    FWIW I don't give Survation MRP equal weight with YouGov. Too many rather unlikely results. However, this result is very consistent with their previous one
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,014
    The SNP score is particularly disappointing for me and I find it hard to relate to what I am seeing on the ground in Scotland. The SNP are almost invisible because they have no money. We have had 1 leaflet from the SNP and 6 from the Tories (neither Labour nor the Lib Dems are wasting their time in this constituency, I am not even sure Reform are standing). This is in an SNP seat.

    Will that make a difference, other than to the recycling bins? Who knows, but it is a long time since the SNP have had so little impact in a major election. I will be gutted if they pick up 37 seats, gutted.
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 21,704
    MarqueeMark said:

    Jonathan said:

    MarqueeMark said:

    So much for Reform/Conservative cross-over.....

    How’s is going MM? Still going strong. Here in Sussex, it seems that reports of the death of the Conservative Party were greatly exaggerated.
    The 60+ age group is still strong. Which down here is a chunk of votes...

    Yes, we've undoubtedly lost some. But not half, as the polls are saying.
    Thanks for sharing so openly, I am sure your working hard, and more than your leadership deserve.
  • MisterBedfordshireMisterBedfordshire Posts: 2,252
    edited June 15
    Clutch_Brompton said:

    FWIW I don't give Survation MRP equal weight with YouGov. Too many rather unlikely results. However, this result is very consistent with their previous one

    WhisperingOracle said:

    These Reform scores are poor,

    I expect Nige will be very disappionted, because some of these wil be fieldwork after the Yougov by now, I expect. Where is the snowball factor of people apparently keen to jump on the bandwagon, that you might have expected ? If it's not in evidence this weekend, I doubt it will suddenly arrive later on.

    I would like to see the raw figures.

    New entries on the block like Reform are tricky to weight.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 23,890
    Have we done this cool photo of Sir John Curtice when he was about half his current age, looking like a competitor in the Great Egg Race?

    https://x.com/JohnRentoul/status/1801915023414997137
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,220
    All the talk of Labour cleaning up has to be good news for the SNP and Greens.
  • FF43FF43 Posts: 17,239
    My gut feel is SNP will do a bit better than expectations. John Swinney has probably done just enough to steady the boat and on the basis nothing further will come out about party finances between now and July 4.
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 10,061
    edited June 15
    New Scotland Only Westminster poll, Norstat 11-14 Jun (changes vs 30 Apr- 3 May):
    Edit- SCOTTISH KLAXON!
    Lab ~ 34% (nc)
    SNP ~ 30% (+1)
    Con ~ 14% (-2)
    LD ~ 9% (+1)
    RUK ~ 7% (+1)
    Grn ~ 4% (nc)
    Alba ~ 2% (-1)
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,959
    viewcode said:

    So has nobody seen "The Legend of Ruby Sunday"?

    I have.
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 6,277
    Savanta had a war of words with Farage as they didn’t prompt for Reform.

    They said they intend to switch to a ballot prompt method but it’s not clear whether that’s happened for this poll.
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 12,859
    Matt. Genius.
    https://x.com/MattCartoonist/status/1801997816752963835
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,937
    Jonathan said:

    MarqueeMark said:

    Jonathan said:

    MarqueeMark said:

    So much for Reform/Conservative cross-over.....

    How’s is going MM? Still going strong. Here in Sussex, it seems that reports of the death of the Conservative Party were greatly exaggerated.
    The 60+ age group is still strong. Which down here is a chunk of votes...

    Yes, we've undoubtedly lost some. But not half, as the polls are saying.
    Thanks for sharing so openly, I am sure your working hard, and more than your leadership deserve.
    But not more than our candidate deserves. He is one of the good guys.
  • HeathenerHeathener Posts: 7,084
    nico679 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970

    Reform still 8 points behind the Tories . I’m surprised Labour have gone up after other recent polls.
    Manifesto?
  • CleitophonCleitophon Posts: 489
    Clutch_Brompton said:

    FWIW I don't give Survation MRP equal weight with YouGov. Too many rather unlikely results. However, this result is very consistent with their previous one

    You think a 2.200 sample yougov survey beats a 30.000 sample Survation sample in reliability??? 🤔🤔🤔 interesting.


    https://www.survation.com/survation-mrp-labour-set-for-record-breaking-majority/
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    wooliedyed said:

    New Scotland Only Westminster poll, Norstat 11-14 Jun (changes vs 30 Apr- 3 May):
    Edit- SCOTTISH KLAXON!
    Lab ~ 34% (nc)
    SNP ~ 30% (+1)
    Con ~ 14% (-2)
    LD ~ 9% (+1)
    RUK ~ 7% (+1)
    Grn ~ 4% (nc)
    Alba ~ 2% (-1)

    An admirable - and prompt - recovery with the klaxon there. Sometimes one just has to doff ones cap and say: “well played”.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,472
    Have Baxtered Savanta since nobody else has.
    Lab 521
    LD 51
    Con 30
    Ref 2
    GRN 1
    SNP 21
    PC 4

    Majority of 392.
  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Posts: 1,313
    DavidL said:

    The SNP score is particularly disappointing for me and I find it hard to relate to what I am seeing on the ground in Scotland. The SNP are almost invisible because they have no money. We have had 1 leaflet from the SNP and 6 from the Tories (neither Labour nor the Lib Dems are wasting their time in this constituency, I am not even sure Reform are standing). This is in an SNP seat.

    Will that make a difference, other than to the recycling bins? Who knows, but it is a long time since the SNP have had so little impact in a major election. I will be gutted if they pick up 37 seats, gutted.

    You find it hard to relate to what you're seeing ground because it isn't going to happen. The SNP would have won more preferences in Clydebank Central a couple of days back if they were on course to win 37 seats. Needless to say, that didn't happen.
    John Curtice doesn't seem to think the SNP are going to do particularly well, either.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvBXPKl8NUI
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,959
    Norstat Scotland poll

    Lab ~ 34% (nc)
    SNP ~ 30% (+1)
    Con ~ 14% (-2)
    LD ~ 9% (+1)
    RUK ~ 7% (+1)
    Grn ~ 4% (nc)
    Alba ~ 2% (-1)

    According to Sir John Curtice’s analysis, this would see Labour return 28 MPs in Scotland, up from the current two, while the SNP would win 18 seats, compared with its 48 in 2019. The Lib Dems would increase their Scottish contingent of MPs from four to five.

    https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/tory-voters-switching-to-reform-add-to-pressure-on-douglas-ross-mk962nlf5
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 10,061
    nico679 said:

    Savanta had a war of words with Farage as they didn’t prompt for Reform.

    They said they intend to switch to a ballot prompt method but it’s not clear whether that’s happened for this poll.

    It has indeed, that changed this week
  • HeathenerHeathener Posts: 7,084
    Casino_Royale said:

    MisterBedfordshire said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    "One thing largely unnoticed in Labour’s manifesto: it will give public bodies a legal duty to reduce inequality (by enacting the socio-economic duty in the 2010 Equality Act for the first time). The socio-economic duty would have posed a significant legal obstacle to austerity (one reason the Conservatives never enacted it)."

    https://x.com/georgeeaton/status/1801968518243439000

    Which means they will likely face a huge economic crises before their first term is out (along the lines of having to raise interest rates significantly to shift gilts and shore up the £). The government is already spending more on interest than defence and education combined).
    I said on here yesterday that SKS could be a one-term PM, and got pilloried for it.

    I must say, I'm looking forward to being hailed as a great prophet if (when) it happens.
    And I said that this is because rather than face the reality of the present you are creating an illusory future. It’s classic flight reaction.
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 6,277
    Heathener said:

    nico679 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970

    Reform still 8 points behind the Tories . I’m surprised Labour have gone up after other recent polls.
    Manifesto?
    I thought the manifesto was as dull as dishwater . Maybe dull and safe is what people want !
  • spudgfshspudgfsh Posts: 1,495
    viewcode said:

    So has nobody seen "The Legend of Ruby Sunday"?

    I watched space babies and couldn't watch the rest. and I'm a dr who fanatic
  • HeathenerHeathener Posts: 7,084
    Casino_Royale said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970

    So it's an MRP modelled on that?

    Hmm. Interesting.
    I know both begin with S but one is Survation (S. Times) and the other is Savanta (S. Telegraph)
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    tlg86 said:

    All the talk of Labour cleaning up has to be good news for the SNP and Greens.

    And bad news for Labour! Expect to see Wes Streeting all over the telly tomorrow telling anyone who listens that the polls are all wrong / a Tory plot
  • boulayboulay Posts: 5,556
    The longer it goes without a reform/con crossover poll the more Farage will look like a hubristic bellend on the back of that one poll the other day. Looking forward to a journalist asking him about the 4000 polls putting reform behind the Tories and if he still thinks they are the opposition.
  • HeathenerHeathener Posts: 7,084
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention for Sunday
    @Telegraph


    📈25pt Labour lead

    📉Lowest Con vote share since May 2019

    🌹Lab 46 (+2)
    🌳Con 21 (-4)
    ➡️Reform 13 (+3)
    🔶LD 11 (+2)
    🌍Green 5 (+1)
    🎗️SNP 2 (-1)
    ⬜️Other 3 (-1)

    2,045 UK adults, 12-14 June

    (chg from 7-9 June)

    https://x.com/Savanta_UK/status/1802030811421564970

    Blimey.

    That may be an outlier but it could be that the media attention around the various manifesto launches is now coming out of the system and we return to how we were, roughly, ten days ago?
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,382
    spudgfsh said:

    viewcode said:

    So has nobody seen "The Legend of Ruby Sunday"?

    I watched space babies and couldn't watch the rest. and I'm a dr who fanatic
    It improves dramatically. Although yes, space babies is crap
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,382
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    viewcode said:

    So has nobody seen "The Legend of Ruby Sunday"?

    I have.
    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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