Old Holborn Between 1983 and 2015, the Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras was northerner Frank Dobson. A railwayman’s son from York, Dobson was a grammar school boy and economics graduate. After leaving the [more…]
The wheels are coming off the Bodybags bandwagon already; they may actually be off already and if not, probably will be by the time this gets published. In a mere couple of weeks our Andeh [more…]
Earlier this week, to lob a grenade at his successor Andy Burnham’s first day in the House of Commons after the recess, Keir Starmer announced his resignation from Parliament. Speaking via his local newspaper, the [more…]
The previous piece on opinion polls looked at who commissions opinion polls and what might be their motivations. This second piece is about how opinion polls are conducted and how reliable they are. Let us [more…]
I’m sure that most readers are shocked when they learn that a known criminal has been elected to an office of trust in some level of government. (I saw just the other day that a [more…]
In 1992, every opinion poll and market research organization predicted a Labour victory at the general election. The BBC exit poll as the polls closed at 10pm on 9 April 1992 suggested that the Conservatives [more…]
Our Markerfield correspondent has been in touch again, this time regarding the Manchester mayoral election which took place yesterday. However, the count doesn’t take place until today. Based on previous Greater Manchester mayoral elections and [more…]
After a week of the Andy Burnham show what have we let ourselves in for or to be more precise what has the Labour Party let us in for. True to form Labour has done [more…]
It’s all over then, Spanner has done the off, or will have in a week’s time, and the Knob o’t North will be taking over. From what I can see very little will change, it [more…]
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