Opinion Polls

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• Two Thirds of Imams in France on Welfare, says Author

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 584
  Two-thirds of all Muslim Imams in France are on welfare which means that the French taxpayers are effectively subsidising the propagation of Islam in that country, author Christopher Caldwell has said. In an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel, Mr Caldwell, a Financial Times journalist and author of the ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Tories slump to, er, 13-point lead

  
  John Rentoul — Authority: 526
  I saw Iain Dale had a taxi-driver moment when Ipsos-MORI reported a 17-point Conservative lead rather than the three-point gap that was rumoured: How can you take seriously a polling organisation which shows such huge monthly fluctuations? The last three months have shown the Tory lead go from 17% down to 6% ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• ComRes has Tories ahead by 38% to 29%

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 630
  Within the poll there is evidence that the Conservatives still have work to do.  By 49% to 45% voters disagree with the statement that “the Conservative Party offers an appealing alternative to the Labour Party.” There may also be a little mileage in the Labour attack that the Tories are the party of the ...
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• Why Cameron has not sealed the deal

  
  Today in Politics — Authority: 502
  Fascinating ComRes poll in The Independent tomorrow. The Tory lead is down one point since last month to nine points and the figures still point to a hung parliament. More significant are the questions we asked about perceptions of the Tories. ComRes found that a majority of people think that a Conservative ...
  5 days ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  6 days ago

• Tory surge deflates Labour comeback

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  David Cameron lead revives after pre-budget report At all levels of the Labour party, optimism was in generous supply before the Christmas break. During their rounds of parties up and down Whitehall, cabinet ministers have raised their glasses to renewed hope, while being careful not to get carried away. Rather than ...
  6 days ago

• Cameron plans to start election campaign in January

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  David Cameron is ready to launch a long and fierce general election campaign early in the new year after a new poll today shows the Tories opening up a commanding 17-point lead over Labour. The Conservatives are said to be preparing a nationwide poster campaign costing some £500,000, to be unveiled on 4 January, ...
  6 days ago

• Pre-election poll findings are all a matter of opinion

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Conflicting results fail to keep us accurately informed Newspapers tend to believe their own public opinion polls more implicitly than rival polls. They are, in newsroom jargon, "the ones you can trust". But a blizzard of poll findings sets such faith wobbling . Is the gap narrowing? Are all the articles examining a ...
  6 days ago

• Tories heading for landslide victory according to updated ConHome Poll of Polls

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 630
  Less than a month ago Ipsos MORI had the Tory lead down to 6% . The ConHome Poll of Polls is now suggesting a Tory majority of over 80. Most commentators expect a much closer election, however. On Radio 4s Week in Westminster Jackey Ashley, Benedict Brogan, Peter Oborne, Peter Riddell and Steve Richards all ...
  6 days ago

• Tories 12% ahead in YouGov poll

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 630
  The Tory lead was 9% last Sunday according to YouGov.  An Angus-Reid poll yesterday had the Tories 16% ahead . The Peoples Nigel Nelson tweets that the poll for his paper has the Tories on 40%, Labour on 28% and the LibDems on just 18%. Graphic later.
  1 week ago

• Peggy Noonans Adam Lambert problem

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 440
  Peggy Noonan, Washington Post op-ed contributor, takes the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll as her starting point.  The poll included the "right track/wrong track" question, generally used as a bellwether of the mood of the country.  Not surprisingly, the numbers have been pretty dismal since 2006 or ...
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• Tories 16% ahead in new Angus-Reid/ PoliticalBetting survey

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 630
  The numbers in the Angus-Reid poll for PoliticalBetting.com are the Conservatives unchanged at 40%; Labour up 1% on 24% and the Liberal Democrats up 1% on 20%.
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• Not even Cameron can control the politics of anger | Martin Kettle

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The next election will take place amid a mood of public hostility to government that is near revolutionary in its force The polls are narrowing and the game is afoot. We cant wait for the election, say Labour MPs, suddenly and in numbers. Except that the polls arent narrowing much or enough, and it isnt yet game on ...
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• The Goring opinion poll predictions for Christmas 2010

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 630
  The ConHome/ ConIntelligence team has just finished a very long (and quite liquid) Christmas lunch at one of Londons greatest hotels ( The Goring ). As the Port was passed around the table we made predictions as to where the two main parties might be by the next time we have Christmas lunch this time next year. These ...
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• David Cameron: I dont relish cuts, but weve got to reduce budget deficit

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Amid sliding poll ratings, the Tory leader is adamant he will stick to his guns on tackling truly dreadful scale of problem David Cameron rolls back in his large green sofa and bursts out laughing as he recalls the Tories less than glorious performance in the last three general elections. "We did a core strategy for ...
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• Three in four voters believe climate change important

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  New Guardian/ICM survey shows Britons overwhelmingly reject view that Copenhagen conference is panicking about an exaggerated threat Three in four British voters believe Gordon Brown and world leaders are on an important mission at the climate change conference in Copenhagen , according to a new Guardian/ICM poll. ...
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• Latest Forecast – 15th December 2009

  
  Forecast UK — Authority: 106
  As we approach the General Election Forecast UK will be stepping up its predictions leading to, we hope, a daily forecast during the election itself. Our latest forecast uses data from the past few weeks. In line with figures seen in recent opinion polls in the past month, we are seeing a slow reduction in support ...
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• Tories slump to 12-point lead

  
  John Rentoul — Authority: 526
  Havent had time to comment on the ICM poll in The Guardian this morning. It has a nine-point Tory lead. So did YouGov in The Sunday Times at the weekend. ComRes had 17 points in The Independent on Sunday . UK Polling report put the average lead at 12 points . If anyone thinks this looks hopeful for Labour, ...
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