Tele reporting the Conservatives lead is down to 1 point, 41 to 40.
This can't be happening. Shirley. :-(
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Tele reporting the Conservatives lead is down to 1 point, 41 to 40.
This can't be happening. Shirley. :-(
Given that Corbyn has only been campaigning in Labour safe seats and May has been highly visible in places Labour have a small majority, I'm guessing that the parties' own polling is much nearer to the truth.
Corbyn knows they're going to lose badly and is cementing his position amongst the faithful, while May knows those labour seats are very much up for grabs.
I read this morning that the polls showing it to be very close are assuming a 90% turnout amongst 18-24s. Which ain't going to happen.
For some of them, YouGov, for example, you have to register with them first, which means they're only asking the more politically engaged sort of people who would bother to register.
None of it really explains a 20 point swing in a month, though. It's still weird.
That is an absolutely shît poll with little or no credibility and which is dominated by online social media users (i.e. heavily biased towards 18-25 year-olds).
There have been a couple of very dodgy outlier polls. YouGov, which started all this crap, has form for this and is rapidly losing credibility.
On Friday, there are going to be a lot of awkward questions being asked of certain polling companies.
If you seek reassurance, this is what is taking place on the doorsteps.
http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2017/06/05...s-got-to-give/
In one sense, the tories will be delighted, as nothing is better calculated to get the tory vote out than the terrifying perception that a Corbyn-led Labour Party will actually be running the country. A lot of waverers or people who've threatened to abstain or make a protest vote will come back into the fold on that basis alone.
Here ya go clowns
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...-polls-skewed/
Because we acknowledge the French influence on our language and don't struggle to spell words whose spelling includes French forms. You had Noah Webster and his weird hang-ups to make your spelling simpler for you, thus suggesting he didn't rate his countrymen's intelligence all that highly.
Well there hasn't been a campaign - that's the problem. May has been so obsessed with it being seen as her victory that she's basically gagged the rest of the cabinet. Boris - who, whatever you think about him is the most effective cross-party vote-winners in UK politics - is only just being allowed out now.
The manifesto was and is appalling. It basically stuck two fingers up to traditional tory voters and did nothing to win over any floating voters. It was hubristic in the extreme. For the first time in living memory, a sitting tory party has run an election without basing their campaign on being the best custodians of the economy. The suggestion this time is that May hasn't wanted to do that on the basis that saying the economy is doing well would be to give credit to Cameron and Osbourne.
Basically, Theresa has not impressed at this election. She's been shown to be more interested in her status than that of the party. That won't be forgotten or forgiven.
To be fair, being a good campaigner doesn't make you a good Prime Minister or vice versa. She's likely to be a one-issue PM and that issue will be Brexit. Once that's done, it'll be all change.
Besides, one side effect of this vote being less than a massacre may well be that Corbyn remains in charge of the Labour Party. Long term, that may actually be the worst possible thing for them.
These days it's impossible for anyone to accurately predict these votes....it's a recent development...like in the last 3 years.
All I've seen is one upset after another.
Even our last election was an upset because the sizeable losses Labour took which no one predicted.
If someone is predicting the tories are one clear then they're most likely miles clear of Labour
Lol Burney...I was referring to the usual media outlets and companies who do these predictions before hand.
Yes. I'd have thought the fact that Corbyn appears to have attracted j back to the Labour party is surely reason enough not to vote for them? After all, lest we forget, amid all the Jaguar-driving hipster stuff, j does actually claim to be a revolutionary Marxist.