Apparently they have form for producing mental polls before elections. In 1987 they produced the infamous maggie wobble poll. It happens quite regularly.
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Apparently they have form for producing mental polls before elections. In 1987 they produced the infamous maggie wobble poll. It happens quite regularly.
Ben Page is a bit of publicity junkie, his last "corker" was a poll in March putting Labour 2pts up.
jamieson87
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Scottish Sun backing The SNP.
jimbobsmells
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Jesus like I would ever vote Lib Dem again.
CyclopsRock
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I'm on my phone so I can't link but tomorrows The Sun front page is pretty funny for a few reasons, and terrifying for another reason.
I read that as well. Given the marginals polls earlier on I still think its dead even. The marginals point to it.
CyclopsRock
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This?
That's the one! The image is terrifying and the idea that tomorrow is the day that The Suns verdict is born is pretty funny.
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Scottish Sun backing The SNP.
so bad its good
ComRes seems to agree with you.
ComRes / Mail:
Con 35 (-1)
Lab 35 (+3)
Ukip 11 (+1)
LD 7 (-1)
Green 6 (+1)
Other 6 (-3)
IdreamofHIME
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What a schizophrenic publication.
You should see the Daily Mail and the Daily Mail in Scotland on any given day, talk about confuzzled.
CyclopsRock
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Its probably worth reminding everyone that they are different newspapers...
Still mental though. And they are Murdock papers.
SymbiantXenos
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Haha! Have just read somebody's tirade against immigrants stealing "our" jobs in England. Where is she going at the start of June? To magaluf to work in a bar for the season.
Oooh, Lib Dems have leaked details of £8 Billion of Benefit cuts the Tories are planning to make to the Guardian. Cameron will be pressed to confirm or deny tomorrow night.
It really is like watching a messy break up on facebook.
ferrasvansen
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Oooh, Lib Dems have leaked details of £8 Billion of Benefit cuts the Tories are planning to make to the Guardian. Cameron will be pressed to confirm or deny tomorrow night.
Jeez if that is true they just shot themselves in the foot, no way they can stay in power if those cuts to working families are true. They will get slaughtered in Midlands marginals, I think they will deny this or its curtains.
JonathanEx
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Closeup of that front story.
Oooh, Lib Dems have leaked details of £8 Billion of Benefit cuts the Tories are planning to make to the Guardian. Cameron will be pressed to confirm or deny tomorrow night.
Should make for a juicy read. Definitely interested to see where the cuts will lie.
Closeup of that front story.
Ooh deary me. Danny Alexander better watch out for falling pianos for the next few days.
JonathanEx
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Ooh, forget the closeup, here's the full story.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...-welfare-cuts-child-benefits?CMP=share_btn_tw
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...-welfare-cuts-child-benefits?CMP=share_btn_tw
CyclopsRock
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Rahhh
".@ComResPolls: 41% of those likely to vote either still undecided or may change their minds before next Thursday #GE2015"
".@ComResPolls: 41% of those likely to vote either still undecided or may change their minds before next Thursday #GE2015"
Closeup of that front story.
Great contrast with the Sun headline but it's pretty easy for the Conservatives to shoot down - "things always change in government; no plans have been made". Also for some reason this story rings a bell, I don't think it's as "exclusive" as the Guardian claim.
Psychotext
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Seems to be a hell of a lot of cuts to child benefit. I thought the Conservatives were the party of working families? Are they running out of things to fuck the disabled over?
Wouldn't some of these cuts essentially cripple so many families, especially those from poorer socio economic backgrounds? I mean, if they cut the first child benefit bonus, and limit child benefit to two children, that means a poorer family with say, four children, would have only £26 a week to support all of their kids? How is that humane, or viable for the family to survive on?
Those number never really mean much especially on phone polls. Most people want to sound like they're fair and openminded (will consider all arguments until the last minute) especially when they're talking to someone. Online and paper polling consistently returns far lower scores about undecided or may change their mind.
That factor is one of the big limitations in phone polling. Phone polls usually contact far less people than an online poll and it's typically far harder to pin a respondent down especially in multiparty elections.
Cutting other people's benefits is music to Tory voters ears. This is working age benefits which almost every family in the country gets.
frankie_baby
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When many Tory voters may themselves be reliant on the benefits that are being cut this will cause them problems, any working parent that votes for them is gonna be a turkey voting for Christmas
IdreamofHIME
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They share a ton of content daily. Politics and Sport are the real differences, but but the rest of the shite they fill it with is the same across the board.
JonathanEx
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frankie_baby
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Maybe not (depends what the limits are set at), but the other cuts/limits are ridiculous
Oh and being from 2012 doesn't make it Not relevant, it's what they wanted to do and being in a coalition stopped them, on their own they would have been truely evil
Mama Robotnik
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Bigger copy of The Sun's front page, in case anyone wanted to read the small text:
CyclopsRock
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Won't this get the usual "they were proposals, no decision were/have been made, it's an old document" etc response? Which, actually, isn't that unreasonable.
Murdoch machinations to the same end. Helps the Tories since they're nothing in Scotland.
JonathanEx
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eeeeyup.
Danny Alexander must have just decided "FUCK IT" knowing his chances, then forgot no-one told him anything of note
Perhaps, but it'll make Cameron wriggle when its brought up tomorrow night. He's ruled out X,Y and Z on taxation and some other spending cuts, so Dimbleby should get him to rule out changes to Child Benefit or explain what he's going to do.
Bigger copy of The Sun's front page, in case anyone wanted to read the small text:
The "SNP saboteurs"! As already discussed above, Murdoch empire unsurprisingly tactically playing the political field.
Jezbollah
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Indeed - he's only lifting the lid on what was planned back then - it only goes to speculate on what they might do in the future.
Cameron will do well though to diffuse this pretty quickly tomorrow though.
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