Month: June 2009
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…they’d be pretty sucky. My roundup of polls on Wednesday turned out to be pretty flaky. I’d like to use the excuse that I was only reporting them, not endorsing them, but that’s for the birds. First of all, turnout: Mat B correctly predicted that YouGov were probably over-estimating and he was spot on. This…
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Rob Parsons commented: OK, I have a nice letter from the Telegraph. What now? It looks as if Rob got the same letter I did, which read as follows: Thank you for your email of 27 May 2009, which was addressed to telegrapheditorial. While we note your comments, we believe that the above article was…
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I wrote a short piece on the local elections on CiF yesterday, which is now live. At the time I was struggling to come up with a proper assessment of how the Lib Dems had done in the local elections so mostly concentrated on the departure of Lord Rennard, but I did write this: The…
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I’ve just got back from an hour’s stint on LBC talking about Yurp. Myself and fellow guest Hugo Brady from the Centre of European Reform were both under the impression we were there to discuss how the European Parliament works and the elections themselves. Instead we found ourselves being asked to mount a full frontal…