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LAB lead down to 1% with YouGov – politicalbetting.com
LAB lead down to 1% with YouGov – politicalbetting.com
This is by far the best poll for the Tories for sometime and as ever the question is whether it is an outlier or not. Other recent polls have had with much bigger margins including R&W where all the fieldwork took place yesterday.
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At the height of Mailgate.
Russia has deported more than 1,185 million people from Ukraine, including 200,000 children, since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, says Ombudswoman Lyudmila Denisova
https://twitter.com/Hromadske/status/1523947789872418817
That’s a lot of Ukrainians.
One in five have heard a lot about "hikegate"
https://twitter.com/ChrisHopkins92/status/1523705515930398720
"The children the Nazis stole in Poland: Forgotten victims
"During World War II, the Nazis kidnapped tens of thousands of children and forcibly "Germanized" them. Afterward, they were left to grapple with their trauma alone. Now, a book and a documentary reveal their cruel fates."
https://www.dw.com/en/the-children-the-nazis-stole-in-poland-forgotten-victims/a-52739589
Putin's Russia is a global abomination. I do not see how we can ever make a compromised peace with it, whatever Macron says
I think a lot of people see the dull bureaucratic business style of newer Parliaments like the EU Parliament and the devolved assemblies and think that they're the norm when they're not.
Edit: Heh, Mexicanpete was thinking the same. Somewhat vindicated, of course, BigG
Of course we're also used to Holyrood, but that's got the opposite problem from FPTP anyway.
The Mail's campaign against Johnson started from Paterson, through sleaze and Partygate, until the Ukraine War, and took in two separate editors. During that period the Labour lead was strong most of the time.
The Mail only turned on Starmer two weeks ago, really significantly for the first time. Now look what happens.
Fellow mass murderer Putin would probably be flattered by it.
Confused now
It is inevitable
They're not leading the public, they're generally following it and recognising what its section of the public wants to hear.
Check the dates for the fieldwork,
The capital W confused me. I probably need to go sit by the pool and drink Raki
Haven’t we been told that this is the way to end all this peacefully?
Create some Serbian style facts on the ground. Then the vote. Then the returning people (if they return) don’t get voting cards. In their own land.
The idea that the press only follow opinion rather than also frame and form it is obvious nonsense.
I'm a republican but lets be honest, all states have their own Pomp and Circumstance in such ceremonies.
The Americans have plenty of Pomp and Circumstance with the President's equivalent State of the Union speech and other set pieces.
The French have plenty of Pomp and Circumstance too in their Presidential set pieces.
Of all the reasons to be a republican, the lack of Pomp and Circumstance in republics is not one of them.
Israel springs to mind. Its treatment of Palestinians can sometimes resemble the Nazi treatment of Jews. Obviously not anywhere near as grotesque and evil - but there ARE echoes
Now we have Russia behaving like Nazi Germany in eastern Europe and Russia in WW2?
Hmm. Man hands on misery to man.....
Johnson should have announced his snap election yesterday before Starmer's speech. An election means purdah for both Johnson and Starmer. I am not sure that six weeks of Johnson campaigning from a fridge against Starmer will look as good as Johnson campaigning from a fridge against a leaderless Labour Party or Jeremy Corbyn, which I guess is much the same thing.
Johnson does have a USP. Vote Conservative get Johnson, vote Labour get anyone but Starmer. Although that certainty may not be the vote winner it once was.
Sadly, you're probably right.
Well over a million Ukrainians died in their fight for independence after the First World War, for example. And a decade on, the Holodomor.
I don't see the point in having a monarchy unless you get the Pomp and Circumstance. I don't want King William to turn up for the Opening of Parliament on an e-scooter, in a hoody
Royalty is meant to brighten the day with horses and swords and carriages and crowns. It is theatre. It is MEANT to be a bit silly and different and charmingly archaic, while also knitting modern Britons back into our incredible history, because there is such a density of symbolism, speaking of different eras and epochs. Like the symbolic hunt for explosives under the Commons!
I love it. If you get rid of all that we might as well have a cheap, tedious euro-style president
I approve. A simple system that delivers proportionality (when each constituency has enough seats).
Way, way better than STV.
Byron loved it. For good reason
In no less than 12 of 18 of the five-seat constituencies, the top 5 first-preference candidates were elected.
The genius of our constitutional monarchy is that it takes the worst aspects of celebrity out of the political process. The PM should be dull, smart and effective. They can be ugly and grey and out of Hello magazine.
That's the idea at least and one reason why Boris is such a bad fit for the role.
It does make the next few polls interesting to see the trend
Latest Westminster voting intention (5-6 May)
Lab: 36% (-3 from 26-27 Apr)
Con: 35% (+2)
Lib Dem: 10% (-1)
Green: 8% (+2)
SNP: 5% (n/c)
Reform UK: 4% (+1)
Except for Major but he was against the windbag.
President Boris Johnson.