Category Archives: Polls

There is no news today.

By the founding editor | Wed 25th October 2006 - 11:05 am

Guardian 3 There is no news today on account of the fact that I do not do polls.

Someone do something. Please.

I mean, seriously. I’m on the brink of joining Fathers for Justice and performing a naked stunt on the Commons roof terrace, before the Parliamentary authorities fence it in.

If nothing happens at PMQs today, I’m replacing Lib Dem Voice with pictures of kittens and the highlights from Hi! Monkey.

While we’re waiting, I need to learn to cook. I only have hobs and a …

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Breaking news: Tory finance scandals

By the founding editor | Mon 2nd October 2006 - 10:45 am

BBC News has the story. ‘I’m not paranoid, but the world is out to get me’….

Somewhat more seriously, Liberal Review have been digging around the Tory party’s finances, this follows on from a series of stories over the weekend about a shadowy operation called Constituency Campaign Services which may, or may not, be part of the Conservative party.

We also learn today that four major Tory party donors have been questioned as part of the cash for peerages investigation. How does all this sit with Mr Cameron’s call to clean up politics?

Finally, …

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More bad poll news for the Tories

By Mark Pack | Sat 30th September 2006 - 9:27 am

“Almost every trend relating to the Tory party is either static or downwards. As the figures in the chart show, the proportion of voters thinking Mr Cameron “is proving a good leader” has fallen from 46 per cent in February, when he had been party leader for only a few weeks and was still relatively unknown, to only 35 per cent now… some 86 per cent of voters have no idea what to make of the Conservative leader and his rhetoric. A substantial majority fear he may be merely vacuous.” Anthony King in today’s Daily Telegraph

Interestingly, despite the talk about …

This is how polls should be covered

By Mark Pack | Fri 29th September 2006 - 6:14 pm

Dave Gorman explains what the US polls mean.

Are the pollsters getting it wrong?

By Mark Pack | Fri 15th September 2006 - 12:52 pm

It’s pretty common for the polling companies at the moment to ask how people would vote with a Brown/Cameron/Campbell match-up, and the result typically is the Lib Dems dropping a few points compared with Blair/Cameron/Campbell.

But what do these figures really tell us? Take the latest Populus poll (full details here). It uses the question:

Q.5 Now I’d like you to think ahead to the next election, expected in 3 or 4 years time. Imagine that the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown takes over from Tony Blair as Labour leader and the Conservatives are led by David Cameron and the Liberal Democrats by Ming Campbell. Which party would you vote for – or would you vote for another party or not vote at all?