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nothing directly relevant (though shameless plug: our Political Monitor is out tomorrow and it's a corker)
If it was YouGov then normally Tom Newton-Dunn gives us a tantalising tweet by now
Luckily my bicycle is squeaky enough that none of the neighbours will mistake me for one of Osborne's shirkers having an all-day lie-in...
"A separate coalition motion was approved pointing out that "while the release of information pertaining to malpractice between 2005 to 2007 by individual HSBC account holders was public knowledge, at no point were ministers made aware of individual cases due to taxpayer confidentiality or made aware of leaked information suggesting wrongdoing by HSBC itself" and notes "that this Government has specifically taken action to get back money lost in Swiss bank accounts".
Pinkbus is a triumph! Ed defaming Swiss residents is a triumphant rallying cry for the left.
Apparently...
Could be a major change in the leader ratings.
But more likely it is the Greens in third place, which fits the definition of corker.
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/politics/market?nodeId=MENU:2707982&id=1.101416490
Fixed it for you
What was previous favourite?
Lib Dems in 3rd ?!
Something like neck and neck on normal VI.
But when you mention the leaders' name, large Tory lead?
Is so much fun speculating.
That's basically betting on a big scandal to hit the Conservatives between now and election day.
I thought the Lib Dems would get 80-90 seats, and couldn't believe they'd fallen back.
This is how I bet...
Tell me how many times they've hit 18 since then with YouGov?
http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Labour-8217-s-parliamentary-candidate-Bedford/story-25987102-detail/story.htm
To me that was despicable. Seems they haven't changed.
They really are hypocritical pond life.
EDIT: Actually I think you are wrong to say they haven't hit 18% since you called the 18% an outlier
They seem to regard the support of non-Tories as an entitlement
which is something I think is very true, and something which gets my back up about Labour more than happens with other parties. In their defence, as it is generally expected that the people who dislike the Tories do so more intensely, on average, than those who dislike Labour, it would be hard for the Tories to develop a sense of entitlement about non-Labour people being 'expected' to vote for them, because the narrative is that it happens less. I recall being really annoyed in 2010 with the assumption that as I had voted LD I must be part of the anti-Tory majority who must surely have felt betrayed by the Coalition.
Granted, about half of those voted LD then did feel so immediately, and another quarter or so of that original amount have since disappeared as well, so it is not as though there is >no basis for the entitlement, but I think it goes a little far.
For partisan Tories, someone voting other than Tory is just a mistake. For partisan Labourites, voting other than Labour, if you are not a Tory, is a betrayal of the left. At least, the extremists would say so.
'Far too many pb Tories regard voting Labour as a sign of corruption: since no-one sane would vote Labour, the party must be dependent on a client state of dole scroungers and public sector workers'.
You forgot Guardian readers & immigrants.
You've just done the same, with use of the phrase 'tax cheats'.
By the way you are wrong.. they have got 18% since you said it was an outlier.. almost makes me feel bad to say it
Don't make stuff up to win an argument this time please though, it was embarrassing to catch you out on the bet you never had
PB Hodges saying Labour/Miliband are a disgrace.......Dan would be proud of every last one of you.
**** Opens another bag of popcorn *****
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/hansard/commons/todays-commons-debates/read/unknown/90/#c90
Who knows.
Maybe poll No.2. is tomorrow morning's?
If Milliband doesn't, Fink can do nothing and the smear remains.
Cameron could raise it in next week's PMQs - but this is a high risk strategy for him. He could position it as an attack on Milliband's judgment and lack of courage. Or he could raise the issue of Labour's smears against his wife and dead child and what Milliband did or did not know about that. But that must be a deeply personal and painful issue for him.
Smearing a rich person - however unfairly - is one thing. But smearing wives and dead children is beyond the pale, in my view. Labour crossed a line there and have never stepped back from it, to their discredit.
Certainly the Tories need to do something. There are plenty of stories around about Labour's supporters and Labour MPs. And there is, of course, the fact that the only PM to be interviewed by the police under caution was a Labour PM, one T Blair, currently helping Mr E Milliband, apparently.
Frankly it's wrong that smug plutocrats like Fink can make 3 million quid donations - one can only assume for the purchase of power and influence. Wrong, wrong, wrong again and still wrong.