Categories
politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Andy Burnham should make sure this focus group from 2010 ge
politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Andy Burnham should make sure this focus group from 2010 gets a wider audience
Thanks to Danny565 for posting this video on last night’s thread, it is a clip from a Newsnight focus group from 2010 of twelve voters from Bristol who didn’t vote Labour in 2010, about the then Labour Leadership election which eventually saw Ed Milband win.
0
Comments
Oh - and Romford to Upminster left to do too
I do think as this video shows he would be popular personally, since whether we like it or not a lot of people do judge politicians on whether they're down-to-earth or a nice guy. And it's total bollocks that they would find him too "left-wing". The one worry I still have about him as whether at the end of the day, however much they liked Andy, whether they'd find him to be a credible PM who could stack up against Cameron, as those couple of people at the end were hinting at.
http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2015/06/13/burnhams-spin-doctor-is-director-at-lobbyist-firm-that-advises-union-buster-ineos
The candidate most likely to gain ground as a consequence of this is Yvette Cooper (or Jeremy Corbyn should he reach the ballot).
However the truth is not quite as you suggest
Labour uncut say, ''Katie Myler, a former special adviser to Burnham when he was health secretary, now works for international lobbying company, Burson-Marsteller.
They claim on their website that their staff have provided “senior counsel” to the Ineos “CEO and management team” during “the Grangemouth industrial dispute.” ''
So she worked for Burnham when in office and its not clear she had any involvement in Grangemouth. The so called bitter 'union buster' dispute was actually about trying to keep the company solvent.
In fact far worse is the next bit from Labour uncut ''She joins fellow lobbyist, John Lehal, who is acting as campaign director. His company, Insight Consulting Group, has worked for a string of private medical companies, ''
Private medical companies!!!! A whole string of them!
I am not sure poor Katie is the right person for Burnham though because a 2010 issue of PR Week points out ''Most recently she played a key role in Ed Miliband’s successful campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party and has been helping him in his transition to the position of Leader of the Opposition.''
If you ask me alarm bells ought to be ringing for labour activists big time - if their heads haven't exploded already.
So far, the guy has caught massive rays, prehistoric looking 8ft catfish, giant eels and something that could swallow you whole.
A curious thing is that after much criticism of the unions for over-influencing the last leadership election, they seem completely laid back about this one so far.
The 'three minutes' is one such example. How do you choose a fair, representative three minutes? Even the order you run them in can affect things due to primacy and recency (people tend to most remember the first and last thing you tell them).
If the first person to speak says "Ed Miliband is crap" it reduces the odds on another person expressing the contrary view.
Edited extra bit: misread the article. The three minute clip point would appear not to run in this case, but in general focus groups get video clips, not face-to-face time.
For me, the big event of the coming week (apart from the LD election hustings of course) is Ascot and good to see the Tuesday final declarations out.
SOLOW for me in the Queen Anne and MAKE BELIEVE in the St James's Palace. SHAMAL WIND may win the King's Stand for the Aussies and at a bigger price how about SHWAIMAN in the Ascot Stakes ?
http://us11.campaign-archive2.com/?u=17a553e5ca5e76d221cc1df19&id=505e51491a&e=8829405e91
He says "the little social housing we have in London".
Fact: 24% of housing in Greater London is classed as social housing (Mayor of London report 'Housing in London', 2014)
' but today's from Sadiq has nudged me towards supporting him: actually a concrete, attractive policy:'
'If a social home is sold in Islington North, a social home must be built in Islington North. One for one. Like for like.'
How can it be an attractive policy if even as mayor he has no power to implement it?
PB can be a very cruel place sometimes.
It's such deliberate tear-jerking that I end up laughing or turning the sound off. Anyone would think most species were endangered and barely able to sustain daily life according to most docus - and Mr Attenborough is a serial criminal here.
'It's also noteworthy imo that this focus group was in the South (since there's been a theory that Andy would only do well in the North).'
Very small focus group based on 3 minute discussion and before Mid Staffs scandal.
I'd go for Millionaire Matchmaker, Mob Wives and Bar Rescue - they're hilariously OTT but still feel quite real for reality tv.
"On housing, the Mayor can produce a housing strategy that allows him or her to recommend the amount, type and location of new housing built in London.
This ‘recommendation’ is subject to guidance from the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. Local Authorities in London must generally conform to this strategy.
However, if the Mayor’s plans are in contradiction with UK national policy, the Secretary of State can otherwise direct the Mayor’s policy."
https://fullfact.org/article/what_can_the_mayor_of_london_do-9159
So, Sadiq would be limited in terms of legal power, were he to become Mayor, but it would do him no harm at all to be seen to be fighting for poorer Londoners.
The one thing that he has to beware of with social housing is that it needs very careful handling. People are very sensitive to perceived fairness over its allocation.
http://www.nrm.org.uk/RailwayStories/songs.aspx
Including one for our nationalist friends: "Glasgow is Improving Daily"
Obviously a sign of the benefits of the union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Danish_general_election,_2015
I reckon we will never see this report.
Will Iraq War report EVER be published? Row erupts as Chilcot Inquiry is delayed for another year
£10million, six-year inquiry will not be published for 'at least another year'
Calls for an urgent statement in Parliament on Sir John Chilcot's work
David Cameron urged to consider pulling the plug on the entire process
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3123526/Will-Iraq-War-report-published-Row-erupts-Chilcot-Inquiry-delayed-year.html#ixzz3d3ByJW6u
https://youtu.be/ig3GcDBjQN4
Inexcusable and nonsensical.
IMO, Conservationism should not be about trying to keep the world as it was x years ago, but more about preserving quantity and quality of habitat. Our focus on saving species, particularly the hopeless panda, is plain silly for anyone who accepts evolution.
Of course, in recent decades he doesn't determine the content or have that much input on that scripting as he would have in the early days, as I understand it.
As an aside, my family have always used 'keggy' or 'cack' handed to mean left-handed.
Someone once told me a reason for the former. Drivers on the Midland used to stand on the left side of the loco, but those based south of Kettering used to stand on the right side of the cab - something that was done by the Great Northern, whose metals they shared until the Midland line to St Pancras was opened.
Hence drivers and firemen from depots south of Kettering were referred to as 'Keggy handed', because they operated the controls with their left hand instead of the right.
I've no idea if this is true, or even if it makes much sense (I'm not a steam loco driver). But I like the story.
When you said keggy handed I had to google it. I was more used to the term "keck handed " . Oddly my father was left handed and he was admonished constantly for it at school. He always had to write with his right hand or get the steel ruler. He said it proved great asset in later life because as a draftsman he could write and draw beautifully with either hand irrespective of what side his tea cup was on. Practical man he was.
https://youtu.be/ig3GcDBjQN4
* The leftwards engineer sitting on the logs may be wearing a wristwatch (or its a shadow)
* The sequence starts with trees on both sides of the rails, but ends on a treeless plain
* The engine issues black smoke, but if wood-fired the smoke should be grey/white
* The stormtrooper bangs his head on the door
I was more thinking of the first one the name, as the others are sequential but agreed not good continuity I guess. I didn't spot the engineers wristwatch or the shadow.
Rooney finds the net, somewhere between neat and new in a dictionary.
The visibility issue this mess caused might have contributed to a crash in 1955 where 11 people died:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_rail_crash
ScotlandSlovenia 2The radical wing of Greece's Syriza party is to table plans over coming days for an Icelandic-style default and a nationalisation of the Greek banking system, deeming it pointless to continue talks with Europe's creditor powers.
Syriza sources say measures being drafted include capital controls and the establishment of a sovereign central bank able to stand behind a new financial system. While some form of dual currency might be possible in theory, such a structure would be incompatible with euro membership and would imply a rapid return to the drachma.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/11673989/Syriza-Left-demands-Icelandic-default-as-Greek-defiance-stiffens.html
As to a forced conversion to non-euro, I hold the minority view that they cannot be forced and may continue on with the Euro, even tho they should convert out. I look forward to discovering what methodology the ECB will use to make them give it up, even though the Greeks have to date disobeyed everything.
Ouch!! 'a couple of game theorists'. Now that's a (well-dserved) put down.
I am now 99% convinced that default is going to happen. The only way it does not is if Tsipras caves completely.
Economic migrants without visas are in the EU illegally. They have any rights to freedom of movement within the Schengen area, and hence France and Germany would be within their rights to refuse entry.