Interesting thread, but I think the statistical methodology is questionable, for a number of reasons. Eleven is an extremely small sample, and I would use VI not leader approval, as the former is a b… (View Post)

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" as Tory Edmund Burke might have commented on ye-olde-pb.com. (View Post)

The first thing you always do in government when considering a policy with long term costs and benefits is bin the business case/impact assessment/cost-benefit analysis though, for several overlappin… (View Post)

I wonder how many of that 70.7%, like me, were on a plane to Panama that day? I well remember logging on to the airport wifi when the plane landed, reading the exit poll and punching the air, to the … (View Post)

I've heard rumours of a giveaway budget next year as the Conservatives' only hope as things stand. That also implies going late - probably over the summer if it works, in the winter of next… (View Post)