Tag: elections
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Potential good new for the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. According to Ipsos-Mori, they are up to 9% in the polls. Even with a large margin of error, that is good news for a party which languished on 3.7% last time, although they managed to hold onto their 6 seats. Also interesting is the sudden…
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If UKIP are now in favour of “Independence” in the broadest sense is it safe to assume they want independence FROM the UK, along with everything else? After all, this is going to be a pretty big theme in the 2007 elections, at least if you are in Scotland or Wales (and Northern Ireland for…
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Some good poacher-turned-gamekeeper advice from Mike Smithson on how to stop a Lib Dem by-election onslaught can be found on politicalbetting.com today. The only thing I would take issue with here is that Mike buys into the myth that Hodge Hill was a successful defence on the part of Labour. Actually, Leicester South, called on…