can be found over at UK Polling Report. They’re insightful, comprehensive, and informative reviews of 2010 and previews of 2011 of the Tories, the Liberal Democrats, and Labour. Not surprisingly, Labour looks in a slightly better position than the other two. Oh, and while I was typically pessimistic, bow down!
Tag: UK politics
William Keegan draws some chilling parallels in The Observer today. Broadly in agreement, Left Foot Forward offers evidence suggesting that the emergency budget is hurting the economy. Troubling to
has been avoided for the 21st Century, in a comical manner. Last night as I went to sleep, I was informed by BBC Radio 4 that the coalition government was going to eliminate free milk for the under fi
Finally, something the PM and I agree on. I especially like the comparison regarding French intransigence regarding the UK’s membership in the 1960s and their same position today regarding Turkey — though it’s likely that their position vis-à-vis Turkey is more racially motivated than that regarding the UK, which had more to do about entrenching […]
After seven years of living in the UK, two institutions that I admire (which never fails to invite derision from some quarters in Britain) are the BBC and the NHS. The former is funded by one of the
Can be found here. In short, it looks to be successful. Longer, the BPIX poll that was released yesterday is being touted as having a large enough sample size to say something about the marginals that
Michael Foot died today. He’s best known as leading Labour from 1980 until 1983, and having a hand in writing the “longest suicide note in history”, or officially the Labour Party Manifesto for the 1983 elections. Foot was as old Labour as they come, and his election as leader in 1980 prompted the “gang of […]
Is the UK going to be the next Greece or Iceland? When I moved here in 2003, when times were good economically, I did openly wonder about the sustainability of the British economy. It didn’t see
I promise that this will not be a daily habit of mine, but the Tory +2% lead poll did generate the predictable breathless excitement on these islands. YouGov’s daily tracker indeed moved back to
Until this is held, due by June 3 (and the smart money is still on May 6 in order to coincide with the annual local elections) I will be paying more of my scant attention to the forthcoming British general election. The latest YouGov poll, released on Sunday, has the Tory lead at a mere […]
The British are searching for oil just off the coast of some small islands far away from anywhere, though I understand that Argentina is relatively near by, thinks the Falklands go by some other name,
As several of our august LGM colleagues are attending some high-falutin International Relations junket in New Orleans (as well as one of my colleagues from my department here at Plymouth), I figured I