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Post by froome on May 5, 2024 9:59:55 GMT
The Guardian provided some decent coverage for local by-election results back in the early 80s (plus the articles in The Observer dating back to the 60s). We had a copy in the Common Room so easy to monitor on a weekly basis. Two 1982 clippings pre-Falklands:-  Ah, the days when Bishopsworth was a safe Labour seat. |
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Post by The Bishop on May 5, 2024 10:21:08 GMT
Though not so much so on those figures!
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Post by andrewp on May 18, 2024 19:24:02 GMT
Westminster Voting Intention:
LAB: 43% (+3)
CON: 25% (+1)
RFM: 10% (-2)
LDM: 9% (-2)
GRN: 7% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @opiniumresearch, 15-17 May.
Changes w/ 1-3 May.
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Post by hullenedge on May 25, 2024 18:54:03 GMT
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Post by stodge on May 25, 2024 19:45:39 GMT
Apparently the raw numbers are very similar to the last poll and the four point drop in the Labour lead relates to how the Don't Knows are re-allocated.
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Post by cogload on May 31, 2024 15:32:41 GMT
Poll due tomorrow night. The ramping has already started.."Jesus Wept" is one comment.
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Post by greenhert on May 31, 2024 20:28:28 GMT
The Guardian provided some decent coverage for local by-election results back in the early 80s (plus the articles in The Observer dating back to the 60s). We had a copy in the Common Room so easy to monitor on a weekly basis. Two 1982 clippings pre-Falklands:-  The Vale of White Horse is in Oxfordshire, not Wiltshire -surely the journalist writing this article should have known that, especially since the ward in question is also the name of a notable private school in Oxfordshire! |
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Post by batman on May 31, 2024 21:42:58 GMT
Poll due tomorrow night. The ramping has already started.."Jesus Wept" is one comment. one newspaper has the headline "new poll gives Tories hope". Without having the final figures presumably |
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Post by The Bishop on Jun 1, 2024 9:19:12 GMT
Poll due tomorrow night. The ramping has already started.."Jesus Wept" is one comment. one newspaper has the headline "new poll gives Tories hope". Without having the final figures presumably That's not a reference to a still unpublished (or even unleaked) survey surely? Have to say, juvenile poll ramping is something I can do without in election campaigns. |
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Post by batman on Jun 1, 2024 10:36:12 GMT
I'm sure it must be. The other polls which appeared yesterday have nothing whatsoever to comfort the Conservatives.
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Post by The Bishop on Jun 1, 2024 10:52:22 GMT
Well which paper was it, the Express carried a poll showing the Labour lead unchanged - even if that was actually unchanged on 20 points, they could spin it easily enough.
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Post by batman on Jun 1, 2024 11:02:48 GMT
My wife thinks it was the Express. Perhaps it just was spin. They are not noted for their realism.
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Post by hullenedge on Jun 1, 2024 18:51:16 GMT
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Post by batman on Jun 1, 2024 19:09:05 GMT
oh boy. Definitely not what some might have thought. And the week has not even been a particularly good one for Labour. This is very definitely on the high side for Opinium, especially this close to a general election. I see that the Tories are trying to keep their spirits up, and dampen ours, but there is a limit to how wrong the polls can be, taken as a whole (of course the odd one can be completely wrong, but the average much less so).
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Jun 1, 2024 19:17:04 GMT
oh boy. Definitely not what some might have thought. And the week has not even been a particularly good one for Labour. This is very definitely on the high side for Opinium, especially this close to a general election. I see that the Tories are trying to keep their spirits up, and dampen ours, but there is a limit to how wrong the polls can be, taken as a whole (of course the odd one can be completely wrong, but the average much less so). the next 4.5 weeks will seem so long for you! |
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Post by Sibboleth on Jun 1, 2024 19:21:01 GMT
The general tone of the briefing was very much 'Stop! He's already dead!' so some of the ramping elsewhere was... peculiar.
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Post by batman on Jun 1, 2024 19:43:03 GMT
oh boy. Definitely not what some might have thought. And the week has not even been a particularly good one for Labour. This is very definitely on the high side for Opinium, especially this close to a general election. I see that the Tories are trying to keep their spirits up, and dampen ours, but there is a limit to how wrong the polls can be, taken as a whole (of course the odd one can be completely wrong, but the average much less so). the next 4.5 weeks will seem so long for you! you're right but it will seem better what with beer & cricket |
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Jun 1, 2024 19:43:55 GMT
the next 4.5 weeks will seem so long for you! you're right but it will seem better what with beer & cricketthrow in some sandwiches  |
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Post by batman on Jun 1, 2024 19:57:39 GMT
I do indeed take a sandwich with me when I am playing Sunday cricket. And normally a small sweet thing like a millionaire's shortbread. Beer afterwards. Funnily enough I do not play for the TUC's cricket team. Next match for me is tomorrow week, have to work tomorrow.
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Post by redtony on Jun 1, 2024 20:44:45 GMT
people start voting in just over 2 weeks time
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