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Is that Nick Palmer perchance...
Jim Murphy has now declined invitation to appear on Scotland Tonight this evening. No show the day Labour launch their manifesto. Ouch.
https://twitter.com/HumzaYousaf/status/587711208138084356
Just look at that turnout for a branch meeting. In Labour's industrial heartland. A full 59 really is on.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/13/andy-coulson-perjury-trial-delayed-until-after-general-election
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Are you sure that isn;t the first episode of that new game show ''spot the tax payer?''
1) My junior doctor today was away last week visiting parents.in Eastbourne where they run a B and B. I tasked her with looking out for posters. She saw six LD and no others.
Fox's anecdote predictor: comfortable LD hold.
2) A discussion at coffee break with two medical colleagues (1 Sri Lankan Tamil, 1 from Tamil Nadu). Both live in Leicester West. 1 Tory, 1 Labour (this is Liz Kendalls seat). Both were impressed by how multicultural their home countries had become. The Indian one said that he never heard a Tamil on a building site any more, only Hindi, Orissan and Bihari. Shop assistants the same. The Sri Lankan commented that there was now a significant Chinese and also Somalian population in Columbo now. The Indian Tamil replied that there was a growing Chinese and Nigerian population in Bangalore too.
Fox's anecdote predictor: Bangalore surprise UKIP gain!
What Labour have is Schroedinger's manifesto in a box.
Now we have time travelling interviews...
Labour will not fund the NHS, cos it doesn't need it, says Burnham
@faisalislam: So Labour's @andyburnhammp takes issue with fundamental premise that Simon Stevens NHS 5yr view (asking for £8bn real) is way forward
@CharlieCooper8: Burnham: "£8bn for NHS in 5 years time not the issue now", says Con/LDs "moving goalposts". Interesting ivw @HSJnews http://t.co/JOXw4vRiV4
Indeed. Because if they couldn't hold on to it in 2010 on the back of a wave of Cleggy popularity, of course it will be GAINED when LD vote is in the doldrums!
Someone work out which these are, please
Anyway off to bed. Feel quite unwell and I note that North by Northwest is on so maybe falling asleep while watching Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint will make things better.
As usual, the story unravels, but of course by now no-one cares, the information merry-go-round has moved on, the next 'Putin' scandal awaits.
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/labourtargets/
Milton Keynes South down to Stafford. I think Labour could be ahead in two ( Rossendale + South Ribble)
Someone will be crying into their cornflakes...
Evan's successor gives Nichola a run for her money in the fragrancy stakes
That, and Evan Harris was an ARSE.
I agree. Even I didnt like Dr Harris.
The Lovely Layla would get my vote:
http://www.laylamoran.com/
Also great to see Icarus and Tabman back.
But OxWAb is not really in play for the LDs - according to my well-placed source in the party. Moran really isn't making any headway. And the Blackwood team is working much harder in terms of leaflets
And the lead is doing this since the start of the year
The SNP vote share has barely ticked up. The Lab vote share, however, is noticeably declining.
If you had to call them then Dudley S, Gt Yarmouth and Dover are Con holds (just).
The rest are Lab gains (just).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs_otHoMaKo
https://twitter.com/stvclaire/status/587657530064658432
It's ironic that, for all the prattling that the "Blairite" wing of Labour do about being pro-business, they actually know nothing about how successful businesses market themselves. You have to emphasise your USP, you don't try to adopt the USP of your main rival and come off like a second-rate imitation of it.
Fairly sure this will be remembered as the day Labour lost the election.
As I said earlier today I think that Ed Balls is suddenly thinking he might need to do this. Ironically addressing the consequences of that makes it just that little bit less likely.
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Milton Keynes South
Rossendale & Darwen
Cleethorpes
North East Somerset
Great Yarmouth
Dudley South
Dover
South Ribble
Peterborough
Stafford
Stourbridge
Harlow
All should be comfortable Con holds, except Dudley South. Great Yarmouth and Dover will prob have UKIP in 2nd.
Plus it says to swing voters "there's no difference between the parties on the policies, therefore you may as well just vote for who you think the best PM is".
Millions stuck in high cost slum rentals go "WTF, Build Houses".
NIMBY's and Bouquet's go "they don't deserve a house".
Can't see this being a winner.
Will Straw is standing in Rossendale. The name may help, or hinder. There seem to be quite a few extra candidates too.
But there are a lot orange diamonds about.
In Yarmouth, Labour's candidate has terrible name-recognition and could hardly string two words together coherently on a recent Radio Norfolk debate. Meanwhile the Labour-run Council has closed the public toilets in this holiday town... and hired a Council chief exec on a grand-a-day. Tory Hold.
In Norwich North, Labour's Jess Asato has sometimes benefitted from the halo-effect from front benchers visiting to bolster ex-BBC hack Clive Lewis [no skeletons in his cupboard, oh no! :winks:] in Norwich South but has still been absent without leave for the last few months. It's easy to forget that most of Norwich North is quite comfy surburbia and solidly Tory even if the bits close to the centre that the journos visit are blocks of flats with Labour posters. Tight but Chloe will hang on.
Bunnco - Your Man on the Spot
Ronnie Carroll, a former UK Eurovision contestant who was due to stand in the 2015 general election, has died at the age of 80.
Born in Belfast in 1934, his biggest hit was Roses are Red.
He represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 and 1963 with Ring-A-Ding Girl and Say Wonderful Things, finishing fourth both times.
Mr Carroll was due to stand as an independent in the election in the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-32291350
Imagine if the Tories and Labour tie on the night for seats, and we have to wait weeks for this seat to vote.
The reason we have a housing shortage is partly a lack of new building, partly more households (through immigration and marriage breakdown), and partly a shortage of people who can afford to buy. Even a 10% deposit is a hell of a lot of money for a young couple.
Now, can you please get out and about in the other top 50 E&W marginal constituencies, please?
Thank you.
The Swedish entry is looking good.