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Oct 9, 2020 19:20:35 GMT
Post by finsobruce on Oct 9, 2020 19:20:35 GMT
Don't forget the new Pineapple version. Which no-one seems to buy - if my jaffa cake experience earlier today was anything to go by. The aisle* was full of boxes of the pineapple version, but I got the last proper jaffas. * incidentally, the biscuit aisle, not the cake aisle Apparently there is also a strawberry version which I've never seen anywhere.
Jaffa cake bars are in the cake aisle.
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middyman
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Oct 9, 2020 19:26:03 GMT
Post by middyman on Oct 9, 2020 19:26:03 GMT
I couldn't remember what the oddity was with the decision. It is that they are cakes but sold with the biscuits and consumed as if they were. You do not, after all, have a slice of Jaffa Cake.
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Oct 9, 2020 19:32:10 GMT
I couldn't remember what the oddity was with the decision. It is that they are cakes but sold with the biscuits and consumed as if they were. You do not, after all, have a slice of Jaffa Cake. You do not have a slice of Madeleine (and not just because they are dreary things). Cakes go hard when they get stale, biscuits go soft.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Oct 9, 2020 20:11:41 GMT
They remain Stockport's sole notable contribution to World cuisine. Apart from Robinson's "Old Tom" which has been anaesthetising people for over a century now. Ah, "Old Tom". Once went to a cycling group meeting in a Robinsons pub some years ago. Had a half. Took me about a week to recover (I've never been much of a drinker). Two of my colleagues were rather more seasoned drinkers, had a pint each and would have got away with it. If they hadn't come on a tandem! Watching their departure was amusing.
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Post by finsobruce on Oct 9, 2020 20:15:02 GMT
Apart from Robinson's "Old Tom" which has been anaesthetising people for over a century now. Ah, "Old Tom". Once went to a cycling group meeting in a Robinsons pub some years ago. Had a half. Took me about a week to recover (I've never been much of a drinker). Two of my colleagues were rather more seasoned drinkers, had a pint each and would have got away with it. If they hadn't come on a tandem! Watching their departure was amusing. some time ago, the brewery came across the original recipe for it, which revealed it was brewed to something like 9 per cent - on draught
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Post by hengo on Oct 9, 2020 21:41:07 GMT
They now describe it as a craft beer! It’s ironic that in recent years a request in a pub for a “winter ale” or “old ale” or “strong ale” or “barley wine“ (pretty much every brewery once produced one under one of those names), usually met with blank looks while new and fashionable beers became heavily marketed, often on the basis of their strength.
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Oct 9, 2020 22:02:17 GMT
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 9, 2020 22:02:17 GMT
They now describe it as a craft beer! It’s ironic that in recent years a request in a pub for a “winter ale” or “old ale” or “strong ale” or “barley wine“ (pretty much every brewery once produced one under one of those names), usually met with blank looks while new and fashionable beers became heavily marketed, often on the basis of their strength. Winter Ale still exists in Belgium, where they consider it an English tradition. Fullers used to do autumn and winter beers. Old Tom is great on a cold winter night. Holts is the superior brewery but Robbie's Old Tom is the... well, cat's whiskers when it is cold.
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Oct 9, 2020 22:03:07 GMT
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 9, 2020 22:03:07 GMT
Not sure why they didn't report the facts that the Greens are on 6% and the SNP on 5%. Looks like my cross over prediction has come true :-) Is this the Greens polling over the Lib Dems?
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Oct 10, 2020 10:19:28 GMT
Post by greenchristian on Oct 10, 2020 10:19:28 GMT
Almost a year late but saw on Twitter a YouGov crosstab which had 39% of Unite members voting Conservative in 2019 vs 42% for Labour. Does put Len’s “our members are unhappy at the Labour Party moving rightwards, they want us to fund ‘grassroots’ far left campaigns” into perspective... Paying the political levy is optional Unite don't generally tell their members that, though. Not sure why they didn't report the facts that the Greens are on 6% and the SNP on 5%. Looks like my cross over prediction has come true :-) Is this the Greens polling over the Lib Dems? I can't see any other way we'd be a whole point higher than they are in the published results. Though it could be a single respondent or a bit of weighting that makes the difference between us being above 5.5 and them being below 5.5.
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 10, 2020 12:02:21 GMT
Apparently the first survey by any pollster to show the Greens ahead of the LibDems since the former's "surge" in early 2015.
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Post by hullenedge on Oct 16, 2020 8:26:24 GMT
Today's Redbox, YouGov:-
Con 39 (-2) Lab 38 LD 6 (+1)
Best PM
SKS 35 (+3) BJ 29
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YouGov
Oct 16, 2020 20:04:59 GMT
Post by Andrew_S on Oct 16, 2020 20:04:59 GMT
The minor party figures are interesting. Four of them on 5% or 6%.
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Post by hullenedge on Oct 17, 2020 11:48:14 GMT
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Oct 21, 2020 16:07:33 GMT
Post by hullenedge on Oct 21, 2020 16:07:33 GMT
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Oct 21, 2020 16:11:05 GMT
Post by Merseymike on Oct 21, 2020 16:11:05 GMT
There seems to be a settling of very little difference between the two main parties. I wonder how long that will be maintained for. ? I'm assuming continuing BP support is unlikely to transfer to either main party.
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Post by CatholicLeft on Oct 22, 2020 10:06:28 GMT
There seems to be a settling of very little difference between the two main parties. I wonder how long that will be maintained for. ? I'm assuming continuing BP support is unlikely to transfer to either main party. Not so sure about that, Merseymike.I think we will have to see if Nigel Farage's founding of the Reform Party ever actually takes place, which I seriously doubt. Without a strong figurehead, the UKIP/Brexit types are either likely to not bother voting or mostly revert to traditional voting patterns, though some former Labour voters are likely to shift to the Tories for the long-term. I would guess some are likely to be attracted to any anti-Establishment party or candidate, irrespective of the likelihood that they would be on different parts of the ideological spectrum.
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Post by pragmaticidealist on Oct 22, 2020 10:10:02 GMT
Lots of people will soon be looking for a protest party. The Lib Dems and their predecessors used to fill that role, and later UKIP and to a lesser extent the BNP and the Greens.
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Oct 22, 2020 10:32:15 GMT
Post by MeirionGwril on Oct 22, 2020 10:32:15 GMT
NIP - the Northern Independence Party (Reviving the Tripartite Indenture of 1405)
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Post by hullenedge on Oct 23, 2020 7:45:21 GMT
Latest YouGov via Redbox:-
Con 40 (+1) Lab 39 (+1) LD 7 (+1)
MoE!
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Oct 23, 2020 12:14:38 GMT
Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 23, 2020 12:14:38 GMT
Lots of people will soon be looking for a protest party. The Lib Dems and their predecessors used to fill that role, and later UKIP and to a lesser extent the BNP and the Greens. Any sensible independent would have a good chance if they went for it at the next local elections. Then again, "sensible" is the problem.
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