A message from OGH – “Our Genial Host” Just to say happy Christmas to the entire PB community and thank you for all your support during the year. It’s been the positive responses from everybody and the continued enthusiasm for PB that has made it a pleasure to run. Thanks also to my son Robert for maintaining the technical infrastructure and enabling the changes that we found we needed last June when traffic shot through the roof at the time…
Guardian Is this going to keep Iraq in the news? The main story in the Guardian is about a private letter that the then Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, wrote to the Tony Blair just before the invasion of Iraq suggesting, amongst other things, that Britain should offer the Americans “political and moral support” in their campaign against Saddam Hussein, but not military backing. According to the paper Straw “reportedly urged Blair to tell George Bush that British troops would help…
Note – You can vote for as many on the list as you wish Choose the short-list for the PB Poster of the Year. Vote for as many of these as you wish and the top four will go into a FPTP final ballot Wibbler Richard Nabavi Yellow Submarine Bunnco AntiFrank Nick Palmer Jonathan runnymede Tim alex Stodge Ted Mark Senior David Herdson Easterross Stuart Dickson Andy Cooke marcia ChristinaD The Screaming Eagles Roger Coldstone Scott P Another Richard Peter…
Your chance to submit a nomination It’s Christmas and time for our annual election for who has been the PB Poster of the Year. Please note that there will be a separate election next week for the PB betting tipster of the year – this first election is about politics purely and simple. The selection process is in two parts: this thread when nominations are invited and then the online election itself. Who has contributed most to your understanding of…
Could April 8th be the day? The veteran FT political columnist, Sue Cameron, has what could be a shrewd point this morning on the election date. She writes:- “Tory leader David Cameron talks of March 25 as polling day, which would save Labour having an austerity Budget. Others suggest May 6 to coincide with the local elections. Labour, they say, cannot afford to fund two elections and its core vote will only turn out once. I hear the shrewd money…
Listen to the John Hutton interview Is this a foretaste of what’s to come? If you have not caught up yet with the John Hutton interview on this evening’s PM programme then listen to to it now. The headline story of Hutton’s admission to being the cabinet members expressing serious doubts about Gordon Brown in September 2006 is only part of it – although the way that comes out in the discourse is of itself quite dramatic. Eddie Mair’s quiet…
Could he take over if it goes pear-shaped for Dave? I’ve just listened on catch-up to last Friday’s edition of Radio 4’s Any Questions when the newly-selected Tory PPC for Penrith, Rory Stewart, had to stand in at the last minute. We’ve featured the multi-talented Mr. Stewart before and even though he’s not yet an MP he’s listed by both PaddyPower and Ladbrokes in their markets for next Tory leader. The former has him as fourth favourite at a pretty…
Isn’t it all about how the questions are framed? The above clip always makes me chuckle and although it’s from a comedy show and is perhaps a bit over the top it’s a useful reminder about the hazards of non-standard polling questions. So what are we too make of the poll findings from the ComRes survey that the Indy is leading on this morning. The first non-voting related question asked whether respondees agreed that “A Conservative Government would mainly represent…