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Opinium has a new poll out showing almost no change in the voting intention numbers. CON still ahead by 5%.
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Still, could be worse...
CNN/ORC- Democratic Primary
Clinton 45% (42%)
Sanders 29% (24%)
Biden 18% (22%)
Webb 1% (0%)
Chafee 0% (0%)
Lessig 0% (–)
O’Malley 0% (1%)
Second Choice
Biden 36%
Clinton 25%
Sanders 21%
Chafee 4%
O’Malley 4%
Webb 1%
Lessig 0%
No Biden in race
Clinton 56% (57%)
Sanders 33% (28%)
Webb 2% (0%)
O’Malley 1% (2%)
Chafee 0% (0%)
Lessig 0% (–)
CNN/ORC- General Election
vs. Clinton
Carson 48% (51%)
Clinton 47% (46%)
Clinton 50% (48%)
Trump 45% (48%)
vs. Sanders
Carson 48%
Sanders 46%
Sanders 53%
Trump 44%
vs. Biden
Biden 52% (47%)
Carson 44% (50%)
Biden 53% (54%)
Trump 43% (44%)
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2462140-debate-democrats.html#document/p2
Are you drunk?
So why would you call the Lib Dems "Left" now?
While once the Liberal party was almost certainly a decent right of centre libertarian party, those days are long gone which is why it is dominated by the leftist social democrats within it.
To say they call themselves centrist or even centre-left is nonsense. They wrap themselves with a cloak of "progressiveness".
"Another replay demanded by Scotland...just like the Indy Ref..man up.."
Very disappointing to hear Gavin Hastings showing such a lack of sportsmanship on the news channels today. I've met him and worked with his brother Scott. Both very nice and the last people you'd expect to behave like adolescent Paul Gasgoines
Oh.....?
The Left wing parties were not willing to go into coalition with Cameron's Tories. The Right wing parties were not willing to go into coalition with Miliband's Labour.
Clegg's Lib Dems were happy to get into bed with either. You can't put them in either column. Which is why they the Lib Dems did so well in opposition (could play both sides) and why they were slaughtered this time (they were a glorified abstention).
Town of the year?
Surely he is everything they want in a Labour leader.
I suspect George Osborne will be reflecting on these numbers as carefully as anyone.
Is Corbyn doing a good job? For me, yes!
[stifles snigger]
EDIT: Footy was not a bad chap, really. Certainly didn't deserve the shoeing he got. Corbyn, on the other hand...
From the wording I take it that it is a member of the House of Lords.
Yes, a bit.
Is it wrong for me to want the government to stop fixating on a single issue and get on with governing?
Is it wrong to want a more balanced parliament with a functioning opposition?
Yeah, I'm a bit bitter.
LAB 32% - (CON&UKIP) 52% = -20% approval rating.
He's had no training on the front bench, none on the NEC (which at least people like Skinner had), none leading a trade union or a council. He's not even worked closely with anyone in any of those positions. Power to him is an external thing to influence or rail against, not to wield. Won't make any difference. He's not going to change now and if he did, he'd lose his core support without picking up anything new: he's too much baggage.
If not then who cares and who knows his name.
When examining this question, one necessarily must return to contemporaneous sources written by people who actually were there.
David Ramsay (1749-1815), known as the "Historian of the Revolution", and who served as Acting President of the Continental Congress wrote:
"A Dissertation on the Manners of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen (1789)"
'The “United States” are a new nation, or political society, formed at first by the declaration of independence, out of those “British subjects” in “America,” who were thrown out of royal protection by act of parliament, passed in December 1775.
A citizen of the “United States,” means a member of this new nation. The principle of government being radically changed by the revolution, the political character of the people was also changed from subjects to citizens.
The difference is immense. Subject is derived from the latin word, “sub” and “jacio,” and means one who is “under” the power of another; but a citizen is a “unit” of a mass of free people, who, collectively, possess sovereignty...
'None can claim citizenship as a birth-right, but such as have been born since the declaration of independence, for obvious reasons: no man can be born a citizen of a state or government, which did not exist at the time of his birth. Citizenship is the inheritance of the children of those who have taken a part in the last revolution; but this is confined exclusively to the children of those who were themselves citizens. Those who died before the revolution, could leave no political character to their children, but of subjects, which they themselves possessed. If they had lived, no one could be certain whether they would have adhered to the king or congress. Their children, therefore, may claim by inheritance the rights of “British subjects,” but not of “American citizens.” ...
'The citizenship of no man could be previous to the declaration of independence, and, as a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens since the 4th of July, 1776. . . . From the premises already established, it may be farther inferred, that citizenship, from inheritance, belong to none but the children of those "Americans", who, having survived the declaration of independence, acquired that adventitious character in their own right, and transmitted it to their offspring.'
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His feet have already been under the table for 30 odd years. Unfortunately the tables were those of the this country's enemies and people have very long memories on this.
What makes it more amusing is the only person able to ride to any sort of rescue for Labour is Watson the other Unions choice. The more sensible Labour MPs must be reaching for the proverbial "whiskey and the revolvers" at this stage in total despair.
Outrageously unlucky not to cop on Shelvey and Adam... Adam should def have been booked
I don't remember a minister West.
Guardian's @patrickwintour reports Labour peer resigns saying party no longer credible. @itvnews understand it's Lord Norman Warner
Another arron banks big name
There are striking similarities between:
1) Republican Primaries leading to nutters on the ticket because of publicity/campaigning from Limbaugh and Tea Party
2) Corbyn is leader because of open election and well-organised SWP campaign
Both are self-destructive but unarguably more democratic than decisions made in smoke-filled rooms, etc. Both require a 'purity of political vision' for a candidate to be declared sound.
Honestly, the original version of this post was fantastic.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Warner,_Baron_Warner
The lack of a Prime Minister in waiting for the Conservatives is an opportunity for Labour should they choose to act closer to the time.
Corbyn approval rating by party:
CON -59
LAB +47
UKIP - 59
LD -16
Farage approval rating by party;
CON -15
LAB -51
UKIP +81
LD-42
UKIP and the Tories are a bigger group than the LD and Labour.
Do we want him back? Churchill re-ratted.
My views on TPD returning back to the Tory party can be easily guessed
Couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, no: this is a tribute...
Tenacious D
This one presumably
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-03-31/labour-would-not-consider-nhs-monthly-charge/
"People should be charged a £10 monthly membership fee for using the NHS, a new report says. Co-authored by former Labour health minister Lord Warner"
And a ton of other stuff from the Blair era.
Personally I would prefer Warner Bros. to make health policies than Lord Warner.
People like the little guy until he starts getting big enough to affect them
I understand your point about small and large parties. But if people in aggregate feel ill-disposed towards Nigel Farage, winning more people to the UKIP cause will in turn lead to more tactical voting against UKIP.
Nick Clegg managed for a long while to have very positive ratings despite leading a small party and still the Lib Dems underperformed in 2010. So even Nigel Farage outpolling UKIP isn't necessarily all that good news for UKIP.
She played a slightly strange version of The Chain, then one of her original compositions, and the only thing I could think of all the way through was "this is just a tribute..."