The big feature from today’s dramatic Ipsos-MORI poll was that only 63% of 2010 LAB voters said they would still vote you party. This is totally out of line with other recent surveys which generally have had LAB with the highest rates of 2010 retention.
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It's the first two that represent a large variance from other polls, I think.
* These figures are from the first table, but the certain to vote figures are pretty similar (eg Con 11% and Green 10%).
That reminds me of my school report - "set a low standard and failed to achieve it..!"
That said, an excellent poll for the Tories putting the last of the phone pollsters on their side. A bet on Labour winning most votes is now a bet on the internet pollsters being more accurate than the phones. Neither are without their problems but given the track record I will prefer the phones until proven otherwise.
The formula remains: will the seat differential in favour of the Tories + the Lib Dems> the SNP? I still think not. So many of the Tory gains are going to be from the Lib Dems, eating their own breakfast. The SNP gains from the Lib Dems still tips the balance Labour's way by my reckoning.
Getting closer though.
Labour has made no case for their economic management this time. Not surprised these Brown-backers would desert...
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The number of undecideds is very low in this poll (if I'm reading it right) so either people are making their mind up, or Ipsos managed to phone everyone at a hustings meeting...
20 +, say 25 Lib Dems vs, say, 50 SNP. Still favouring Ed for PM, particularly when the Green has said she will support Labour and the SDLP votes but seriously close now.
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So if you take the poll at face value then it tells us that most of the 2010 Labour don't knows have suddenly decided to split 50:50 between the Tories and the Greens.
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Phil Roberts Bob Sykes will be along in a bit to buck you up
Even if you believe that PM Miliband is no longer possible, the difference between Con minority/coalition and majority is not to be dismissed. Which leftie wants to see PM Cameron strutting around with an electoral mandate a la George W Bush in 2005?
Curiously you and tim were the only two to take advantage of them. Similar to the current example, there was never a Unionist willing to bet on the referendum at under evens.
- Labour only retains 63% of 2010 voters
- Social class DE voting 35% Tory to 29% Labour
- The Greens will get more votes in England than UKIP
This does not match with what we know from the other polls, therefore it is safe to say that this is another outlier.
Just a week to go, and then we'll be getting all excited for the Spanish Grand Prix.
Whereas Ed on -25 when he can scream and shout about every decision the government makes is really rather crap.
I reckon around 80% chance of a hold. A loss is credible, but an outside chance.
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They're all such phoneys, I've 'ad enuff, I wanna change
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/9966717/Mockney-George-Osborne-backs-the-Briddish-who-wanna-work.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/9966717/Mockney-George-Osborne-backs-the-Briddish-who-wanna-work.html
He's not known as "Oik" for nothing, doncha know.
Oops sorry Mike for that rather childish and insensitive joke. Do please forgive me.
That's a trawler-full of kippers, though.
The trewf
10 polls this week, 8 pollsters (27/11)
CON +11 (+3)
LAB -5 (-18)
UKIP NC (+7)
LD -2 ( -1)
GREEN +4 (+5)
LAB at 2% lead with Panelbase. LAB 34% (NC), CON 32% (+1%), UKIP 17% (NC), LD 8% (+1), GRN 4% (NC)
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@MSmithsonPB You mean "No Change" for LAB and "Up One" for CON with Panelbase, surely?
pistols at dawn...?
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I still think Miliband has a chance. It's all about the economy - macroeonomically the UK is in better shape than where it was 5 years ago - unemploymentnumbers are down, GDP figures have increased, etc. But is the average voter better off? That's the point Miliband should be making. Microeconomically the average person (voter) isn't better off. Wages haven't grown, energy prices have increased, rental prices have shot through the roof....
Not quite. You will recall that Brown resigned and Cameron was appointed before the Coalition agreement was formally agreed.
The cause of his resignation was therefore not that Cameron had the votes, but that Brown knew he didn't, which was the Constitutionally correct analysis and action, the same as Heath in 1974.
Which again brings us to the 2015 scenario. If Cameron realises, by the actions and noises from other parties, that there is no way he can pass a Queen's Speech, then he ought to go immediately, or at least as soon as that is apparent, and the Queen will send for Miliband.
If there is genuine doubt - which there may be, since he is predicted to be leading the largest party - he may properly hang on to test Parliament's opinion.
If and when Parliament rejects him, his moment of truth will have arrived. He doesn't have the votes, and will resign. The fact that nobody else may have the votes either is not part of his calculations. He is constitutionally obliged to resign, and the Queen is constitutionally obliged to send for Miliband.
Mr. Garner, had little from the Conservatives here but quite a bit from Labour (and the odd thing from UKIP). Can't comment on Wakefield, no idea what's going on there.
What have we found under the panel base bonnet then to query?
As I posted earlier, I suspect he will have to rule out cutting child benefit.
If he tries just giving a waffly / evasive answer he is guaranteed to get a very hostile audience reaction.
He has to say something definite to diffuse the issue.
Indeed, he may as well rule out cutting child benefit - as he is very unlikely to get a majority so he won't have the opportunity to do it anyway.
That's holed it, oh hang on..
It's all about the trend which has been the Conservatives best friend (this week). On another note, I find their UKIP and Green numbers more plausible than IsPos Morris.
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#Conservative Lead
+6 #Ashcroft
+5 #Mori
+3 #BMG #ICM #Survation
+1 #Opinium #TNS #Yougov
Tie #Comres
#Labour Lead
+2 #Panelbase
+3 #Populus
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shornemead_Fort
(It appears to go between it and Gravesend).
And even further off-topic: am I the only to be really pi**ed off with the new tollgateless Dartford Crossing?
- What will decide this election is the Lib-Lab switchers
- the Tories need an 11% lead to win
- it looks bad for the blues.
I think I covered off the main points there.