The Guardian reports from Mid Bedfordshire: Labour activists campaigning before a byelection in a safe Conservative seat have been told to leave if they feel unable to be respectful to Tory voters, as the party attempts to tackle the assumption that it cannot compete in true blue heartlands. That's what happens when attitudes nurtured on social media collide with the real world. On Twitter at least, your political opponents are all stupid and wicked, and the left has a particular fondness for lecturing them about that r wickedness. I can't see that going down really well on the doorstep. I'd ...
The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: Despite YouGov's reputable track record, as with any other pollster its findings shouldn't simply be taken at face value as there any many ways that reasonably worded questions from high quality pollsters can fail to tell us the full story. So it is with this week's release of a poll of MPs carried out by YouGov. It found that a quarter of Conservative MPs (24%) expect the general election to result in a hung Parliament in which their party successfully forms a ...
Thanks to the Shropshire Star, we have our Headline of the Day. The judges did point out that if the teenager is sufficiently chubby then he will need a large van, which perhaps makes it less suspicious.
My big Christmas present in 1973 was a cassette recorder, and I remember taping a run down of the best-selling singles of the year. I can remember stopping the recording when Welcome Home by Peters and Lee came on because I hated it so much. But Lennie Peters turns out to have been a more interesting figure than he had become by 1973. Blinded in two separate accidents by the time he was 16, Peters still built a career as a singer and pianist. By 1960 he was a member of the Migil Five - some sources even describe them ...
The House of Commons Library – an excellent source of reliable compilation of facts – has put together a handy new website mapping the new Parliamentary constituency boundaries. You can see all the new constituency boundaries in an area, or compare current and old boundaries seat-by-seat. Idle away your time, sorry I mean carry out vital geospatial research, here. Sign up to get the latest news and analysis
Residents will be aware that the last two Highland Cattle at Riverside Nature Park sadly passed away last year. As reported in the Evening Telegraph and the Courier last week, we recently asked both the council and Leisure & Culture Dundee for an update on their position about having new Highland Cattle at Riverside. The responses are below : 1 - From the Head of Environment, Dundee City Council : 'I can advise that Neighbourhood Services does not have an available budget to source or manage Highland Cattle on an ongoing basis at Riverside. I have asked a colleague to ...
