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Lots of polling excitement tonight with surveys showing UKIP with a apparently avery large lead over the Tories and level pegging with LAB when the samples were asked how they would vote in next month’s euro elections.
Cameron’s response was to offer an In / Out EU referendum. May’s response will be what ? Even she can’t sell her own deal it’s so bad and revoking A50 would only make the Tory numbers a whole lot worse
Cameron’s response was to offer an In / Out EU referendum. May’s response will be what ? Even she can’t sell her own deal it’s so bad and revoking A50 would only make the Tory numbers a whole lot worse
The Tories have a debate on their hands about what direction they should go in. Do they return to the politics of the Cameron coalition? This delivered majority government, won over a greater percentage of AB (better off) voters, won more university towns, more professionals but fewer rural areas. Or should the Tories double down and become the Brexit party, moving towards what Nick Timothy says is the “National” party, with a rural, less affluent base led by someone like Boris Johnson?
While I don't expect it, and think if it happens it could mean neither gets any seats (or only 1 or 2), what would happen if the Tiggers do get more votes than the LDs? What a humiliation it would be for a longstanding party and most prominent Remain party. If they cannot beat a hastily assembled assortment of other party defectors with literally no policy other than the same as the LDs, what do the LDs do?
While I don't expect it, and think if it happens it could mean neither gets any seats (or only 1 or 2), what would happen if the Tiggers do get more votes than the LDs? What a humiliation it would be for a longstanding party and most prominent Remain party. If they cannot beat a hastily assembled assortment of other party defectors with literally no policy other than the same as the LDs, what do the LDs do?
So incredible it still has No in the lead and buried in the small print 'On the timing of an independence referendum, 42% of those polled want a vote in the next five years, and 48% do not – with 10% saying they were unsure.'
I've made Mike's point previously, so I'll now put the contrary case.
In 2014 the Conservatives were lead by Cameron. Now they are lead by May.
While there was discontent in Tory ranks over Europe in 2014 it was as nothing compared to local parties refusing to campaign for the party as now.
And, as a mid-term election it would have helped in 2014 that they were in Coalition with the Lib Dems, who did so much to absorb the public's anger during the Coalition years, leaving the Tories relatively unscathed.
Not so now. Every government failure is a Tory government failure.
OH GOD HAS SHE NEVER SEEN A HORROR FILM? If you go into a house in a horror film and the room is filled with dolls, either the doll is going to kill her or she is going to kill you, and there's a good chance you will end up as one of the dolls. Is her next picture the one with the pit in her cellar?
OH GOD HAS SHE NEVER SEEN A HORROR FILM? If you go into a house in a horror film and the room is filled with dolls, either the doll is going to kill her or she is going to kill you, and there's a good chance you will end up as one of the dolls. Is her next picture the one with the pit in her cellar?
Difficult to believe the Tories could really go as low as 14% at the Euro elections as the Opinium poll was showing. What would they be on in Liverpool and Glasgow in that case? Minus twenty perhaps.
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WIDDY'S WORK ROW Nigel Farage faces voter backlash after Ann Widdecombe slams pension campaigners as ‘self-indulgent and entitled’
Strictly star lashed out at women campaigning against plans to raise the retirement age to 66 by 2020
NIGEL Farage is facing a voter backlash after new recruit Ann Widdecombe slammed pension campaigners.
The ex-Tory Minister claimed the 1950s-born women fighting the retirement age rise to 66 by 2020 were “self-indulgent and entitled”.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8954501/ann-widdecombe-slams-pension-campaigners/
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1122252437883113472?s=21
Yerbut look at Yougov.
And haven't most polling companies adjusted their methodologies since?
https://twitter.com/magnusllewellin/status/1122059481448361984
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1122256536917741568
https://twitter.com/acgrayling/status/1122239685055733762
The Tories have a debate on their hands about what direction they should go in. Do they return to the politics of the Cameron coalition? This delivered majority government, won over a greater percentage of AB (better off) voters, won more university towns, more professionals but fewer rural areas. Or should the Tories double down and become the Brexit party, moving towards what Nick Timothy says is the “National” party, with a rural, less affluent base led by someone like Boris Johnson?
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/the-tories-are-stuck-in-the-middle-with-may-heres-what-they-should-do-next/
https://twitter.com/martinboon/status/1121852994797154311
Incredible YouGov poll shows huge shift in favour in Scottish independence
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17602171.incredible-yougov-poll-shows-huge-shift-in-favour-in-scottish-independence/
The standard figure though has No ahead
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1122271826640625664?s=20
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1122129600522457088
In 2014 the Conservatives were lead by Cameron. Now they are lead by May.
While there was discontent in Tory ranks over Europe in 2014 it was as nothing compared to local parties refusing to campaign for the party as now.
And, as a mid-term election it would have helped in 2014 that they were in Coalition with the Lib Dems, who did so much to absorb the public's anger during the Coalition years, leaving the Tories relatively unscathed.
Not so now. Every government failure is a Tory government failure.
Two years, if/when Italy explodes.
On which note, I am away to my bed. Night all.
lost its core vote.