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• General election to coincide with unemployment peak in middle of 2010

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Darling forecasts that unemployment will reach 1.75 million Next years general election will coincide with the peak in unemployment as the economy recovers from its worst year since 1945, according to Treasury forecasts published today. Alistair Darlings pre-budget report forecast that the claimant count measure of ...
  7 hours ago

• Pre-budget report: Alistair Darling has been politically clever

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The chancellor has announced a lot of pain under Labour but made it very difficult for Conservatives to deny that it would be a whole lot worse under them If you think that was painful then it is nothing to what you would get under the Tories. That in a nutshell was the politics of todays pre-budget report. That is ...
  7 hours ago

• Class back on the agenda?

  
  Welsh Ramblings — Authority: 463
  Old school "bread and butter" issues seem to be back on the agenda for the upcoming Westminster election. Todays expected announcement by Alistair Darling of a one-off tax on bankers bonuses is something Plaid Cymru, the trade unions, the SNP, the Greens, some Liberal Democrats and some Labour backbenchers have been ...
  11 hours ago

• Pre-budget report – live

  
  Politics: Politics blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 123
  Minute-by-minute coverage of Alistair Darlings statement to parliament today, perhaps the biggest political event left before the next general election 9.38am: David Cameron has told Sky he thinks the chancellor will deliver a "pre-election" report, rather than a pre-budget one. The central fact of this ...
  13 hours ago

• Michael Whites political briefing: The outcome of this election is as uncertain as any since 1974

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  After eight recent opinion polls have shown him closing the gap on David Cameron (38% to 30%), the PM is looking forward to a jollier festive season Rory Bremner was around Westminster today, joking that the newly-green Gordon Brown is the kind of politician who goes about switching off Christmas lights. Not at ...
  23 hours ago

• South West Plans General Election Campaign

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 610
  The South West Region of the British National Party has laid impressive plans to fight as many seats as possible in the forthcoming General Election, Regional Organiser Mike Howson reports. At the latest Regional Council Meeting, Mr Howson announced that a detailed timetable for the whole region had been drawn up and ...
  1 day ago

• Ban on prisoner votes at next election could breach human rights

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  European court warns ministers that delay in enfranchising convicts risks UK election not complying with current law Next years general election in Britain may not comply with human rights laws because ministers have dragged their feet over giving convicted prisoners the right to vote, the Council of Europe warned ...
  1 day ago

• Tory tax policy seeks to nourish society, unlike Toynbees short-termist alternative.

  
  Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness — Authority: 498
  Polly Toynbees latest ‘class war’ piece is a conceptually threadbare piece of writing. I get the impression that whilst she still feels compelled to bang the tribal political drum she is now barely convinced by her own arguments. Despite what Toynbee might contend, the Cameron Conservative message that a ...
  1 day ago

• Book review: Total Politics Guide to the 2010 General Election

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 175
  One of the first publications from Iain Dales new Biteback publishing imprint dedicated to political books, The Total Politics Guide to the 2010 General Election (Eds, Greg Callus and Iain Dale) weighs in at just under 300 pages divided into two (unequal) sections: the first is a series of 14 articles examining ...
  1 day ago

• Shock selection of Julien Parrott to stand for UKIP in Torbay – oh, wait, he was the only candidate!

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 143
  Julien Parrott, independent councillor of Ellacombe, Torquay, was a bit of a lonely boy when he stood to be selected by UKIP as their candidate in Torbay – he was the only one up for the role, and he shook off his independence to do it. He told thisissouthdevon : “I am standing for something I believe in. I ...
  1 day ago

• The Church Of Obama Is Losing Members

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 547
  ^ ^ ^ Bumped up ^ ^ ^ This is perfect Sunday fare, and rich coming from someone who routinely appeared with Keith Olbermann on Countdown ( until they broke up back in August last year ). That would be Dana Milbank. Oh, yes, this is priceless: Obama The Mortal Some parishioners in the Church of Obama discovered ...
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• Milton Keynes

  
  Washminster — Authority: 129
  It’s not by design – but I have always lived in key marginal seats. I spent my teenage years in Aldridge- Brownhills, a seat that was held by Labour with a tiny majority. As an adult I have lived in Northampton North (whichever party won that seat formed the government) and Rugby (the 15th most vulnerable ...
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• Can Cameron lead them to victory?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  It was all looking so good for the Tories: an assured leader taunting a government in tatters. But recently, criticisms of David Camerons background and his partys political inconsistency have hit home. Now the prospect of a Conservative landslide seems to have disappeared Seventeen miles south of Bath and a ...
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• Populus Tory lead moves into single figures

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 139
  CON 38%(39) LAB 30%(29) LD 20%(18) OTHERS % 11(14) This really is hung parliament territory As predicted in the previous thread this evening Populus poll for the Times has some good news for Brown Central following the party’s relatively good week - even though it is all well within the margin of error ...
  2 days ago

• The Church Of Obama Is Losing Members

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 547
  This is perfect Sunday fare, and rich coming from someone who routinely appeared with Keith Olbermann on Countdown ( until they broke up back in August last year ). That would be Dana Milbank. Oh, yes, this is priceless: Obama The Mortal Some parishioners in the Church of Obama discovered last week that their ...
  2 days ago

• Will Gord get a Populus bonus after his PMQ success?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 419
  Could another firm have the lead down to single figures? I’ve had it confirmed that the Populus December survey for the Times did take place over the weekend and if things are following their normal pattern we should find out about it tonight. This will be the first public poll to have been carried out wholly ...
  2 days ago

• Times: Tories "give up" on Cheadle with Lib Dems digging in for victory

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 175
  Mark Hunter, Lib Dem MP for the Cheshire seat of Cheadle since 2005, could be forgiven for smiling like his countys proverbial cat this morning. Todays Times reports that the Tories are scaling back their expectations of election victory in the light of a slew of polls showing the partys support dipping: The ...
  2 days ago

• BBC prepares for longest election night

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  BBC gets ready for an election programme running from 10pm to the following afternoon, as some councils delay count Generations of bleary-eyed voters have watched the outcome of successive general elections take shape in the early hours of the morning, often slumped on sofas with a glass of wine or a mug of cocoa in ...
  2 days ago

• How are “others” likely to split at the race gets tighter?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 139
  YouGov for Channel 4 June 2009 Can Labour really expect to benefit most? The above is from the massive 32,268 sample YouGov poll taken just before the Euro Election last June and is just about the best resource we’ve got on the attitudes and backgrounds of those who, in that election at least, supported the ...
  2 days ago

• Rochford and Southend East Announces Its BNP Parliamentary Candidate

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 610
  Well known Eastern Region activist Geoff Strobridge has been officially confirmed as the British National Party’s prospective parliamentary candidate for the Essex seat of Rochford and Southend East. Mr Strobridge is a BNP super activist from Southend and is organiser of Rochford and District BNP. He is also the ...
  3 days ago

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