Friday 10th April 2015

Post by **letsskiptotheleft** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 3:30 pm

Hodges is bad, very.

But **** me, I read something earlier by Atul Atwel(?) another of the Unhinged brigade and I am not sure who is the worst. Please, advise anyone to save 10 minutes of their life and not bother with such vomit inducing dross.

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 3:31 pm

yahyah wrote:Plaid have dug up something our Labour candidate said about English football fans when he was 20.

This is in an attempt to try and hit back after at their recent embarrassment when their candidate had headlines nationally about past scribblings about 'nazi' BNP English incomers.

Interesting though that Plaid have time to take a swipe at Huw Thomas, makes me wonder if they may be getting some positive feedback about Labour on the doorsteps.

Are Plaid still convinced Labour was somehow responsible for the emergence of the story about their candidate calling incomers right wingers etc? Have they produced any evidence - or are they just spending their time looking for dirt to throw?

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 3:36 pm

letsskiptotheleft wrote:Hodges is bad, very.

But **** me, I read something earlier by Atul Atwel(?) another of the Unhinged brigade and I am not sure who is the worst. Please, advise anyone to save 10 minutes of their life and not bother with such vomit inducing dross.

I actually think that Hatwal is worse, because unlike Hodges (who is basically a halfwit) he actually understands polling and statistics - but then proceeds to make deeply mendacious, selective use of them for dishonest ends. He is actually dangerous

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 3:38 pm

Hectic Hodges.

danesclose · Post by **danesclose** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 3:46 pm

refitman wrote:
danesclose wrote:The Hampstead Village idiot has come close to outdoing himself:

This may surprise you, but the Tories are delighted with how the campaign is going
Politics is a simple game in which people run around the country for five weeks. Then the Tories win
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general ... going.html

Umm...1997, 2001, 2005?

Or am I missing something (I haven't read the article).

Don't bother - I did & I now need to reformat my brain (a.k.a. 5 pints of wallop tonight)

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 3:48 pm

@ rebeccariots2

Hello. I found this -

Portsmouth #libdems gone beyond meltdown - demanding signed pledges of support for @geraldvjuk from local election candidates

This demand is presumably what GV-J has withdrawn.

StephenDolan · Post by **StephenDolan** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 3:56 pm

Interesting article by Kellner.
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/04/10/ho ... -election/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The number of Conservative and Lib Dem voters that would transfer their vote to Labour to stop the SNP makes it SNP 52%, Labour 37%. Given this is an average across the head to head seats (and based upon the shocking current polling figures) things could get interesting.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:13 pm

Hodges was actually considered to be at least soft-left in Labour terms before the 2010 GE. Really.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:16 pm

letsskiptotheleft wrote:Hodges is bad, very.

But **** me, I read something earlier by Atul Atwel(?) another of the Unhinged brigade and I am not sure who is the worst. Please, advise anyone to save 10 minutes of their life and not bother with such vomit inducing dross.

If Labour win, I'm going to enjoy laughing at that lot even more than Cameron.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:23 pm

Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 10 mins10 minutes ago

YouGov/C4 Scottish polling finds 53% of Tories & 36% of LAB voters ready to switch to LD if they thought that would stop SNP in their seat

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:25 pm

Teresa Crawford retweeted
Real Britain ‏@realbritainros 3 hrs3 hours ago

So, new Tory volunteering plans only let you help at your local school if it has charitable status - ie it's private! (via @FrancesOGrady)

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

StephenDolan · Post by **StephenDolan** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:25 pm

ohsocynical wrote:Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 10 mins10 minutes ago

YouGov/C4 Scottish polling finds 53% of Tories & 36% of LAB voters ready to switch to LD if they thought that would stop SNP in their seat

Yeah, that's what I posted earlier regarding Kellner comments.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:26 pm

Won't these extra volunteers need security checking? That'll take a while.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:37 pm

Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 4 mins4 minutes ago

If YouGov polling is correct stopping the SNP in Scotland could lead to tactical voting on a scale never seen before...

http://bit.ly/1CCu58f" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:39 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Won't these extra volunteers need security checking? That'll take a while.

I'm pretty certain checking isn't free. Employer usually pays for it. No doubt the Tories will do away with it. They've already relaxed the rules.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:45 pm

PorFavor wrote:
citizenJA wrote:I've got to go out for awhile
Wish me luck
I'll return soon
love
cJA
Mind 'ow yer go! (Dixon of Dock Green)

Thank you for that!

I'd had to hoof it over a mile each way to the GP for a check-up.
Tacking off into smog & busy vehicular traffic makes me ache.
After I talked a little about the unpleasantness outdoors, I became cheerful because the staff are nice.
I love the NHS.
Professional & caring.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:48 pm

ohsocynical wrote:Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 4 mins4 minutes ago

If YouGov polling is correct stopping the SNP in Scotland could lead to tactical voting on a scale never seen before...

http://bit.ly/1CCu58f" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Holy mackerel.
I don't know if that's a good thing to do at all.
I think it's best to vote your party.
I'll have to ponder it.

Post by **letsskiptotheleft** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:52 pm

Carwyn Jones said this morning that Jobs Growth Wales is not being axed, it has merely come to an end in this cycle of funding, another one will be up and running next month, doesn't stop Osborne and the poison dwarf Cairns spouting bollocks though, or Wales Online repeating their crap.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales ... ks-9020115" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ErnstRemarx · Post by **ErnstRemarx** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:54 pm

PorFavor wrote:I know you're all anxious to get word on the latest so, as I happened upon it as the Guardian website ricocheted about:

NicholasB
10m ago
1 2

Populus also have a 2% Labour Lead (31:33:8:16:6). The underlying position (Clipped Weighted Moving Average) seems to be a 1% Labour Lead but the short term trend since April 1 for the Labour Lead to increase is looking statistically very convincing (R^2=0.82 on 16 observations).

I would expect this to reverse as people get back from holiday next week and serious consideration of economic reality sets in. Previous Labour Bounces have all done this. But right now Labour seems to be on a real bounce, and with the election so close it will need a big correction in the next 3 weeks or so. We shall see... Guardian Election Blog - my emphasis)

What a load of cock. He might as well post about the efficacy of filling your nostrils with Yorkshire gravy as a method of avoiding earthquakes.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 4:57 pm

I think these are today's polls...

http://linkis.com/news.sky.com/story/1/jCZf6" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Edited to add: or some of them.

ErnstRemarx · Post by **ErnstRemarx** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:07 pm

yahyah wrote:Oh dear....

Election 2015: Candidate suggested cars be damaged
By BBC News (UK) @BBCNews
Labour's Ceredigion election candidate apologises "wholeheartedly" for once suggesting Tippex could be thrown over cars displaying English flags.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-wales-32249455" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That's the problem with nationalism....

Labour leafleting has been cancelled for the duration.
So, who will benefit here now ? Lib Dems & UKIP.

Stupid thing to have said. Let's be clear: nationalism and socialism are opposite stances. You cannot be a nationalist and a socialist, right? Socialism is internationalist by its very nature.

End of homily.

ErnstRemarx · Post by **ErnstRemarx** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:08 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:
PorFavor wrote:@ pk1

This -

That said, there is still time, let’s not forget that in 1992 the Conservatives pretty much junked their whole election campaign blueprint a third of the way in and John Major got out his soap box…. will Cameron take to his trusty stead[sic] to tour the Shires?
I'm not sure that there is still time, though. This is surely a much shorter election campaign and I don't think the Conservatives have the luxury of being able to rip it up and start again - at least not to any great effect.
Still four weeks to go (nearly)

The difference, surely, is that back in 1992 CCHQ still had reasonably competent people in charge. Not to mention a "front man" who was much better liked than Cameron is, *and* much stronger organisation on the ground. Not many tales of them having to pay people to deliver leaflets back then......

The grassroots have died or fled - that's the difference.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:11 pm

citizenJA wrote:
ohsocynical wrote:Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 4 mins4 minutes ago

If YouGov polling is correct stopping the SNP in Scotland could lead to tactical voting on a scale never seen before...

http://bit.ly/1CCu58f" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Holy mackerel.
I don't know if that's a good thing to do at all.
I think it's best to vote your party.
I'll have to ponder it.

Scotland though is the decider and the danger to us getting the Tories right out. I have vowed I'd stick to my party of choice regardless from now on, but after watching the Scottish debates, I'm suddenly hoping the Scots vote tactically. I hear they're going to suffer financially [badly] if they allow Sturgeon free rein and she gets any sort of hold over English Labour. And seeing as they lost the Indy vote, it's sort of weird that SNP now have so much power over Scotland's fate and want to catapult them into all sorts of change that the ones that won the Indy vote didn't necessarily want.

ErnstRemarx · Post by **ErnstRemarx** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:16 pm

danesclose wrote:The Hampstead Village idiot has come close to outdoing himself:

This may surprise you, but the Tories are delighted with how the campaign is going
Politics is a simple game in which people run around the country for five weeks. Then the Tories win
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general ... going.html

Danny boy's an arsehole's arsehole, and I have nothing but contempt for him. I just wish he'd do the obvious and come out as a full on Tory - as we know he is. His man love for David is painful to watch. He needs help.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:17 pm

Lord Ashcroft ‏@LordAshcroft 8 mins8 minutes ago

Parties can’t change in four weeks what they’ve failed to change in five years - my latest national polling analysis:

http://lordashcroftpolls.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Post by **letsskiptotheleft** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:27 pm

I am at a loss to understand how Karren Brady supposedly carries so much clout?

A porn peddlers side kick, that's all she is.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ky-economy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:28 pm

ErnstRemarx wrote:
danesclose wrote:The Hampstead Village idiot has come close to outdoing himself:

This may surprise you, but the Tories are delighted with how the campaign is going
Politics is a simple game in which people run around the country for five weeks. Then the Tories win
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general ... going.html

Danny boy's an arsehole's arsehole, and I have nothing but contempt for him. I just wish he'd do the obvious and come out as a full on Tory - as we know he is. His man love for David is painful to watch. He needs help.

I think David Cameron only caught him on the rebound from David Miliband, to be honest. I don't think Dippy J Hodges really knows what he wants any more. He probably does need help, though.

Post by **letsskiptotheleft** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:33 pm

Hodges is a **** ******.

And that's me very polite.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:33 pm

Labour calls for public apology after senior SNP politicians 'encourage abuse' of TV debate youngster

http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/ ... .122836546

It's getting pretty nasty in Scotland.
One elderly lady who Tweets said her daughter and son in law have stopped saying they're voting Labour because of the abuse.

It's not right!

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:34 pm

ohsocynical wrote:
citizenJA wrote:
ohsocynical wrote:Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 4 mins4 minutes ago

If YouGov polling is correct stopping the SNP in Scotland could lead to tactical voting on a scale never seen before...

http://bit.ly/1CCu58f" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Holy mackerel.
I don't know if that's a good thing to do at all.
I think it's best to vote your party.
I'll have to ponder it.

Scotland though is the decider and the danger to us getting the Tories right out. I have vowed I'd stick to my party of choice regardless from now on, but after watching the Scottish debates, I'm suddenly hoping the Scots vote tactically. I hear they're going to suffer financially [badly] if they allow Sturgeon free rein and she gets any sort of hold over English Labour. And seeing as they lost the Indy vote, it's sort of weird that SNP now have so much power over Scotland's fate and want to catapult them into all sorts of change that the ones that won the Indy vote didn't necessarily want.

I understand better now. Thank you, Ohso.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:35 pm

Cuddly hedge funder, Crispin Odey, back to Tories from UKIP. And helping Rees Mogg.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/crispin-odey-ukip" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Crispin Odey who part-owns Circle.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:37 pm

More brilliance in Academiesville.

http://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/troubled_ ... _1_4026676" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Is this a deficit for one year?!

They've come out of special measures. Did they overspend on that account?

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:41 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Cuddly hedge funder, Crispin Odey, back to Tories from UKIP. And helping Rees Mogg.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/crispin-odey-ukip" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Crispin Odey who part-owns Circle.

I'm going to be very happy to see Rees-Mogg lose his seat.

danesclose · Post by **danesclose** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:41 pm

letsskiptotheleft wrote:I am at a loss to understand how Karren Brady supposedly carries so much clout?

A porn peddlers side kick, that's all she is.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ky-economy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There is a story that soon after she was appointed Chair of Birmingham City she met Ron Atkinson (who was Aston Villa manager at the time) and asked him if Dalian Atkinson was his son.

Post by **letsskiptotheleft** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:44 pm

danesclose wrote:
letsskiptotheleft wrote:I am at a loss to understand how Karren Brady supposedly carries so much clout?

A porn peddlers side kick, that's all she is.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ky-economy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There is a story that soon after she was appointed Chair of Birmingham City she met Ron Atkinson (who was Aston Villa manager at the time) and asked him if Dalian Atkinson was his son.

And Rowan is his first cousin!

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 5:47 pm

Lynton Crosby ‏@LyntonSpins 16 mins16 minutes ago

Fuck

"@BBCMarkEaston: How much will paid volunteer leave cost? Tories tell me they've no specific numbers but confident it'll pay for itself

frightful_oik · Post by **frightful_oik** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 6:18 pm

Quick response from the Beeb to my complaint the other day. It seems they're in the right and I'm in the wrong as usual:

Thanks for contacting us about our coverage of the letter from senior health professionals to the Guardian.

We reported on the letter in question during BBC News Health Editor Hugh Pym’s report for the ‘News at Ten’ on 7 April, and on the BBC News website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32206814" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

On the day the letter was published, BBC News widely reported on criticisms of the government’s management of the health service over the past 5 years – which was the crux of the letter. Our main BBC One bulletins looked at recent figures which showed that A&E waiting times in England are the worst since a four hour target was introduced. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was challenged directly on this point, on the government’s overall management of the NHS and on future spending commitments should the Conservatives win the election during the Radio 4’s ‘The World at One’. The programme also heard from Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham. He was given time to echo the concerns outlined by the doctors in their letter and put forward the Labour Party’s future vision for the NHS.

We believe we have reported on the Coalition’s legacy on health in an impartial and accurate manner. We have reflected the wide of range of opinion and allowed our audience to make up their own minds in their own time.

Thanks again for contacting us.

In other words it got nothing like the coverage that the businessmen's letter did. She's mostly talking about another subject, A&E waiting times, not the letter. Shame I can't get back at them.

yahyah · Post by **yahyah** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 6:20 pm

rebeccariots2 wrote:
yahyah wrote:Plaid have dug up something our Labour candidate said about English football fans when he was 20.

This is in an attempt to try and hit back after at their recent embarrassment when their candidate had headlines nationally about past scribblings about 'nazi' BNP English incomers.

Interesting though that Plaid have time to take a swipe at Huw Thomas, makes me wonder if they may be getting some positive feedback about Labour on the doorsteps.

Are Plaid still convinced Labour was somehow responsible for the emergence of the story about their candidate calling incomers right wingers etc? Have they produced any evidence - or are they just spending their time looking for dirt to throw?

I think the Plaid dirt digging on Huw is because he & Peter Hain were so publicly critical of Mike Parker.
They found the dirt in the form of the online post on a Welsh speaking forum that is years old, and written when Huw was a student.

Cui bono ? The Lib Dems benefit as both Plaid [the original story about Parker was published by a Lib Dem leaning local paper] & now Labour get negative headlines & Welsh TV reports.
Huw is, I believe filming a response and wholehearted apology for TV.

If I were Miss Marple I'd be suspecting a trail directly from the Libs to the Cambrian News, the editor is widely regarded locally as being a Mark Williams fan. He is desperate to win.

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 6:20 pm

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 6:27 pm

Explained on Twitter so much better than I could have done.

So public services will pay for workers to volunteer to do jobs the public sector used to do?

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 6:28 pm

yahyah wrote:
rebeccariots2 wrote:
yahyah wrote:Plaid have dug up something our Labour candidate said about English football fans when he was 20.

This is in an attempt to try and hit back after at their recent embarrassment when their candidate had headlines nationally about past scribblings about 'nazi' BNP English incomers.

Interesting though that Plaid have time to take a swipe at Huw Thomas, makes me wonder if they may be getting some positive feedback about Labour on the doorsteps.

Are Plaid still convinced Labour was somehow responsible for the emergence of the story about their candidate calling incomers right wingers etc? Have they produced any evidence - or are they just spending their time looking for dirt to throw?

Apparently the reason one of the Plaid nats spent hours scouring online for dirt on Huw is because they were angry that Huw [& Peter Hain] were so publicly critical of Mike Parker.
They found the dirt in the form of the online post on a Welsh speaking forum that is years old, and written when Huw was a student.

Cui bono ? The Lib Dems benefit as both Plaid [the original story about Parker was published by a Lib Dem leaning local paper] & now Labour get negative headlines & Welsh TV reports.
Huw is, I believe filming a response and wholehearted apology for TV.

If I were Miss Marple I'd be suspecting a trail directly from the Libs to the Cambrian News, the editor is widely regarded locally as being a Mark Williams fan. He is desperate to win.

Your suspicions seem fairly sound to me yahyah. Thanks for filling in the gaps. As you say - this only helps the Lib Dems. I wish we could get away from stuff like this. Sadly the incomer and nationalist narratives still seem to surface here at fairly regular intervals - often when there is a contentious or important issue at stake. Our local paper printed letters from people telling the anti badger cull campaigners to go back over the Severn bridge ... regardless of there being solid support for and participation in the campaign by born and bred locals. I was surprised that a local paper would print that kind of stuff ... but then I'd fairly recently arrived from lefty London.

yahyah · Post by **yahyah** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 6:35 pm

Just to add Rebecca, someone I know who attended the hustings said both Williams and Parker spent more time attacking Huw than each other, which is surprising unless they both see Labour as a threat.

Last year's European elections had the Lib Dems only about 220 votes less than the Labour here, whereas in 2009 the Libs got 3642 and Labour got 1329, not sure if that would get replicated for Westminster though.

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 6:48 pm

yahyah wrote:Just to add Rebecca, someone I know who attended the hustings said both Williams and Parker spent more time attacking Huw than each other, which is surprising unless they both see Labour as a threat.

Last year's European elections had the Lib Dems only about 220 votes less than the Labour here, whereas in 2009 the Libs got 3642 and Labour got 1329, not sure if that would get replicated for Westminster though.

That seems to be the pattern here so far - Plaid, Green and Lib Dems targeting Labour in the hustings. Whilst it can be frustrating (because it lets the Tories mostly off the hook) and boring (if you go to several hustings as we do) - it does mean a good candidate can get in a lot of practice at rebuttal and constructively addressing negative points so they become an even better candidate. That's my positive take on it anyway.

pk1 · Post by **pk1** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 6:48 pm

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Here's the rest of those letters on the same subject plus the ones on health:

frightful_oik · Post by **frightful_oik** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 6:51 pm

I went back to the Beeb, you can if you quote your case number it seems. My reply:

I complained that you gave MASSIVE coverage to a letter from businessmen supporting Tory economic policy, (which is NOT a subject in which they are experts), and then giving no coverage to a letter from senior health professionals expressing concern about the effects of Coalition policy on the NHS, (a subject in which they ARE experts).

Your reply, (which was very swift in fairness), notes that it was mentioned by Hugh Pym in the ten o' clock news and there was an item on your website, (yes, tucked away in Health not Politics). The rest of your reply is utterly irrelevant as it concerns other matters that I did not complain about.

So, that's a 'hidden' website mention and a passing reference on the ten pm news. In other words you are admitting that you scarcely covered it at all. But should you have? That is the crux of my complaint. The three most important topics for voters as evidenced by many opinion polls are NHS, Economy and Immigration. So a letter from 100 businessmen gets massive coverage and leads the bulletins for over 24 hours. Meanwhile, a letter on the NHS from leading healthcare professionals gets virtually NO coverage. What strange logic makes you think that your completely different treatment of these two important issues is unbiased, impartial or in any way acceptable? The simple fact of the matter is that it is completely unacceptable and you should be ashamed of yourselves for allowing a once great institution to plumb such depths!

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 6:53 pm

Mark Ferguson @Markfergusonuk · 2h 2 hours ago
Very best of luck to @Mike_Fabricant on battling skin cancer. Differences aside, he is one of the real vibrant characters of our politics

I'll second that. I had no idea he was ill.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 6:58 pm

Peter A. Russell ‏@Planet_Pedro 23 hrs23 hours ago Glasgow, Scotland

YouGov says 33 SNP/@scottishlabour battleground seats now "too close to call" (their description)

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/04/09/nu ... wly-ahead/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 7:02 pm

The Daily Rupert ‏@TheMurdochTimes 20 mins20 minutes ago

So Cameron's @Conservatives need to stage the best Tory recovery in 60 years now to keep Miliband out of No 10? Is that true?

Is it? Anatoly. Help

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 7:03 pm

Over at the Guardian's Election Blog (time 18.16) there's a link to a short interview with David Cameron (interviewed by Michael Crick). Brief though it was, I found it quite revealing and, in one respect, very cheering (although the bit which cheered me was no great surprise).

Warning: this film contains a hi-viz jacket

TechnicalEphemera · Post by **TechnicalEphemera** » Fri 10 Apr, 2015 7:07 pm

ohsocynical wrote:Peter A. Russell ‏@Planet_Pedro 23 hrs23 hours ago Glasgow, Scotland

YouGov says 33 SNP/@scottishlabour battleground seats now "too close to call" (their description)

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/04/09/nu ... wly-ahead/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

Can't be if their previous poll is correct. Murphy is running a good campaign, he has to keep at it. It may not work but the nastier the Nats get the more they will lose voters.