Tag: Tory Sleaze

From HoT to HaH: A Pair of Utterly Meaningless By-Elections

ChrisPaul Sat Jun 28, 2008 at 09:09:57 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Mark Twain once remarked that the wonderful thing about science was the remarkable return of conjecture from a small investment of fact. The same goes for this pair of meaningless by-elections with pundits great and small allowing their analysis to run rings around the limited facts to hand. Actually it's simple. Our vote stayed at home.
 



Tories 20 points ahead in Times Populus poll

George08 Mon Jun 09, 2008 at 09:29:22 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

See here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4100100.ece

Conservatives: 45%
Labour: 25%
Liberal Democrats: 20%

The two most worrying things for Labour are that, firstly, this poll was taken over the weekend - i.e. during the Tory sleaze allegations, and secondly, Labour is regularly polling only 5% ahead of the Lib Dems. We're in danger of falling into third place, as with the local elections in May...





Who is the Tory frontbencher who pays his family?

howard Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 02:39:49 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

David Davies' outburst today against Gordon Brown is a smokescreen to hide the Tories hurried scrabble to get out of the Derek Conway row.

Look at this: last week Cameron announced his FRONT BENCH would have until April to declare if they employed family members - ie: were guilty of the same misappropriation of taxpayers money as Derek Conway. That gave them two months to stop doing it and put their houses in order.

Today he changed his mind and said they would have until JULY to do it. Remember this is front benchers not back benchers, he isn't asking them to declare anything at all.

It looks to me like one of the Tory Front Bench is being protected from having to delcare something embarrassing - let's see if we can find out who it is.