Clinton 40 .. Trump 40 - CBS/NY Times Clinton 45 .. Trump 43 - YouGov/Economist Clinton 37 .. Trump 44 - Rasmussen
That Ras is a bad poll for Clinton. Realise it has a GOP lean but even so Obama was rarely behind in it.
I think your memory's playing tricks on you. Do an in-page search for Rasmussen Reports. Alternatively look for wherever there's a red number surrounded by blue ones.
@SophyRidgeSky: Andrea Leadsom appointed Secretary of State for Environment & Rural Affairs
Is Andrea a "denier"?
As reported by energy site Drill or Drop, the MP for South Northamptonshire told the All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Gas and Oil: "When I first came to this job one of my two questions was: 'Is climate change real?' and the other was 'Is hydraulic fracturing safe?' And on both of those questions I am now completely persuaded."
@SophyRidgeSky: Andrea Leadsom appointed Secretary of State for Environment & Rural Affairs
Is Andrea a "denier"?
As reported by energy site Drill or Drop, the MP for South Northamptonshire told the All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Gas and Oil: "When I first came to this job one of my two questions was: 'Is climate change real?' and the other was 'Is hydraulic fracturing safe?' And on both of those questions I am now completely persuaded."
Trying to discover who's had the shortest times in office.
I guessed David Laws, he managed 17 days
Alas
Arthur S @PlatoSays@FatherJones1 Beaverbrook was Minister of War Production for 15 days from 4 - 19 February 1942 before resigning.
"In February 1942, Beaverbrook became Minister of War Production and again clashed with Bevin, this time over shipbuilding. In the face of Bevin's refusal to work with him, Beaverbrook resigned after only twelve (sic.) days in the post"
As well as being nasty, she's the sort of person who enjoys being talked about. And lo! we are talking about her! It doesn't matter if it's negative talk: it's still putting her at the centre of attention.
He says he is pitching for working class Labour voters and Tories disappointed with 'continuity Cameron' Theresa May. Ironic that if he won the only barrister leading one of the main parties would be leading UKIP
Glad to see Damien Green get Work and Pensions. As @rottenborough has said, a human is finally in DWP.
Wild scenes of joy in our house, as the mrs has to rely on them for a disability payment which we can't survive without. May be premature if Green goes native, but I suspect DWP staff are sick themselves of playing evil gits all day long instead of actually trying to help people get better and back to work in a reasonable manner.
As well as being nasty, she's the sort of person who enjoys being talked about. And lo! we are talking about her! It doesn't matter if it's negative talk: it's still putting her at the centre of attention.
A bit like most tw@ts on Twitter.
I am actually embarrassed to say when she was an MP I used to like her. But now? My god, she comes across as a nut-case. Why you'd want to act like a nut-case purely for attention is anyone's guess.
Glad to see Damien Green get Work and Pensions. As @rottenborough has said, a human is finally in DWP.
Wild scenes of joy in our house, as the mrs has to rely on them for a disability payment which we can't survive without. May be premature if Green goes native, but I suspect DWP staff are sick themselves of playing evil gits all day long instead of actually trying to help people get better and back to work in a reasonable manner.
Sorry to hear about your wife's disability. I really hope that she continues to get disability payments and that the DWP under Green isn't what it was under IDS. I also feel that Osborne's austerity agenda ended up undermining many attempts at 'reform' in the last government, and so with him gone maybe things will be better for the DWP (and other departments) as well.
Never mind 'night of the long knives' more like 'bonfire of the Cameroons'! Osborne, Gove, Letwin, Morgan all sacked, Boles and Cameron resign, Davis, Fox, Green, Leadsom all promoted to Cabinet.
I think May has a sense of humour after all. Guardian:
"That means Leadsom, a leading Vote Leave campaigner, will be responsible for dealing with farmers, the group that has most to lose in terms of subsidies from Brexit. (Vote Leave claimed farmers would not lose out, because the UK government would be able to carry on paying subsidies..."
As well as being nasty, she's the sort of person who enjoys being talked about. And lo! we are talking about her! It doesn't matter if it's negative talk: it's still putting her at the centre of attention.
A bit like most tw@ts on Twitter.
I am actually embarrassed to say when she was an MP I used to like her. But now? My god, she comes across as a nut-case. Why you'd want to act like a nut-case purely for attention is anyone's guess.
I think she's probably bitter at having given up a chance to be in government (and as an A List candidate she was likely to have gone far), to play second fiddle to her husbands career in the US. She seems to be a very angry frustrated woman
Glad to see Damien Green get Work and Pensions. As @rottenborough has said, a human is finally in DWP.
Wild scenes of joy in our house, as the mrs has to rely on them for a disability payment which we can't survive without. May be premature if Green goes native, but I suspect DWP staff are sick themselves of playing evil gits all day long instead of actually trying to help people get better and back to work in a reasonable manner.
Sorry to hear about your wife's disability. I really hope that she continues to get disability payments and that the DWP under Green isn't what it was under IDS. I also feel that Osborne's austerity agenda ended up undermining many attempts at 'reform' in the last government, and so with him gone maybe things will be better for the DWP (and other departments) as well.
May has created two new departments, so surely she's going to kill two. Which ones? DEFRA and Transport survived. So who else? DECC? DfID?
I wonder if she'll merge Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Offices with a new 'Department for those bloody annoying Celts'
Don't abuse the Welsh, please!
Wales voted by almost exactly the same margin as England for Brexit Wales reached the Euro 2016 semi-finals Wales are now ABOVE England in the FIFA rankings
May has created two new departments, so surely she's going to kill two. Which ones? DEFRA and Transport survived. So who else? DECC? DfID?
I wonder if she'll merge Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Offices with a new 'Department for those bloody annoying Celts'
Don't abuse the Welsh, please!
Wales voted by almost exactly the same margin as England for Brexit Wales reached the Euro 2016 semi-finals Wales are now ABOVE England in the FIFA rankings
Bunch of Ramshaggers who think they are good at Rugby, but how many World Cups have you won?
George Eaton @georgeeaton 8m8 minutes ago Leadsom getting Defra continues theme of "you broke it, you own it" (CAP payments).
V good point. May is making sure if it all goes tits up then the Brexit brigade are all in the front line. Except Hammond, who will have to deal with a balance of payments crisis not of his own making.
@MrHarryCole: The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
The third ("EEA-lite") seems attractive, as the option most likely to square the circle left by the referendum outcome. But by very clearly stepping outside the single market, I think will be the hardest to sell in Scotland and NI/ROI. So therefore risks destroying the Union, which given Theresa's statement from the steps of No 10, is obviously a non-starter.
Note that WTO MFN isn't the automatic pit of despair some people assume. The risk is, as you say, to the Union.
Never mind 'night of the long knives' more like 'bonfire of the Cameroons'! Osborne, Gove, Letwin, Morgan all sacked, Boles and Cameron resign, Davis, Fox, Green, Leadsom all promoted to Cabinet.
As Neil Kinnock once said: we've got our party back. Remember for many Tories, the Cameroons were interlopers who'd taken over the party, not only politically (like Blair and New Labour) but also socially: the Notting Hill and Chipping Norton sets, a weakness for Old Etonians and so on.
May has created two new departments, so surely she's going to kill two. Which ones? DEFRA and Transport survived. So who else? DECC? DfID?
I wonder if she'll merge Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Offices with a new 'Department for those bloody annoying Celts'
Don't abuse the Welsh, please!
Wales voted by almost exactly the same margin as England for Brexit Wales reached the Euro 2016 semi-finals Wales are now ABOVE England in the FIFA rankings
Bunch of Ramshaggers who think they are good at Rugby, but how many World Cups have you won?
We English haven't won any World Cup since the UK joined the EEC.
@MrHarryCole: The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
George Eaton @georgeeaton 8m8 minutes ago Leadsom getting Defra continues theme of "you broke it, you own it" (CAP payments).
V good point. May is making sure if it all goes tits up then the Brexit brigade are all in the front line. Except Hammond, who will have to deal with a balance of payments crisis not of his own making.
We've had one of those (a balance of payments crisis) for the past 10 years. Everyone pretends not to notice it...
So MP's would have to appeal to electorate and their own members at all times, even if the two are mutually exclusive in their goals? Good luck PLP.
This is what will kill Labour. The members idiotic nonsense that their views and ideas somehow take precedence over constituents. Another example as to how these people don't believe in parliamentary democracy, and actually have an incredible amount of contempt for the working classes. But they'll tell you they 'care' about them. They 'care' enough to put two fingers up to them, and their views....
@Paristonda Interesting. I always thought Mensch was okay with giving up her political career for love? Hadn't she been (allegedly) in love with Peter Mensch for 20+ years as well?
May has created two new departments, so surely she's going to kill two. Which ones? DEFRA and Transport survived. So who else? DECC? DfID?
I wonder if she'll merge Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Offices with a new 'Department for those bloody annoying Celts'
Don't abuse the Welsh, please!
Wales voted by almost exactly the same margin as England for Brexit Wales reached the Euro 2016 semi-finals Wales are now ABOVE England in the FIFA rankings
Bunch of Ramshaggers who think they are good at Rugby, but how many World Cups have you won?
We English haven't won any World Cup since the UK joined the EEC.
@MrHarryCole: The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
Yuk - I was quite impressed by Greg Clark, and hope Javid can provide a surer touch at Local Government than he has at Business. Not at all convinced he is the right person for all the planning and housing work, let alone handling councils fed up with being given more central control and less money to deliver it.
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That's got a serious Brexit angle re fisheries/farmers.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html#polls
Some protocol I'm unaware of ?
Put out to pasture?
2016 Given the job of screwing over the country's ill and infirm whilst smiling away.
it won't be there for long...
Should be 15!
A bit like most tw@ts on Twitter.
@PickardJE: One reason that abolition of DFID would be interesting is that keeping it was a manifesto pledge....
"There is no such thing as "EU money". There is only taxpayers' money!"
@conradlandin: BREAKING: Unite, Labour's largest affiliate, votes to support mandatory re-selection of MPs.
"That means Leadsom, a leading Vote Leave campaigner, will be responsible for dealing with farmers, the group that has most to lose in terms of subsidies from Brexit. (Vote Leave claimed farmers would not lose out, because the UK government would be able to carry on paying subsidies..."
Will May instruct him to prioritise the northern HS3 instead of the London orientated HS2?
Wales voted by almost exactly the same margin as England for Brexit
Wales reached the Euro 2016 semi-finals
Wales are now ABOVE England in the FIFA rankings
Leadsom getting Defra continues theme of "you broke it, you own it" (CAP payments).
V good point. May is making sure if it all goes tits up then the Brexit brigade are all in the front line. Except Hammond, who will have to deal with a balance of payments crisis not of his own making.
On the Unite mandatory re-selection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OHC77Vdjoc
Just sayin'...
"There is no such thing as EU Money! There is only taxpayers' money!"
Chief Sec, Leader of the House, Whatever-BIS-Is-Now, Energy if it still exists?
Any more?
Presumably Priti will get one of those..
@Paristonda Interesting. I always thought Mensch was okay with giving up her political career for love? Hadn't she been (allegedly) in love with Peter Mensch for 20+ years as well?
T20 World Cup 2010