While You Were Sleeping
We're the Tories. Perhaps you've heard of us.
- Well folks, the Guardian/ICM poll is out, and it shows that the Tories and Labour are neck and neck at 38%. Cameron's ratings are the best they've been since March. Ruh-roh! Excellent analysis, as always, from the UK Polling Report.
- Alistair Darling on the predicted economic downturn: "this town, is coming like a ghost town."
- Former leadership candidate John McDonnell with an account of how the willy-waving initiated by Brown over the summer and early autumn allowed rumours of a snap poll to take on their own momentum. There's always someone who goes too far, eh?
- The EU whistleblower reveals his politics. Quelle surprise.
- The Telegraph on the 100 seats that will win or lose the election. According to Westmonster's calculations, when you take boundary changes into account Labour only needs to lose twenty seats to be in hung Parliament territory.
- John Wood tries to get his head around the BNP's education policy. Or, as they spell it, "edyoocayshun."
- Chris Paul neatly summarises the key points of the Tory Conference.
- Guido stops ringing up the Treasury to demand answers over their paperclip budget to turn his eye once more onto Yvette Cooper.
- John's Labour blog explains to Tony Benn about how being a self-serving egotist who refuses to sacrifice any lofty principle to actually help the working man he is so keen on making speeches about, putting personal ambition before the collective, being partially responsible for Thatch's long years in office, and wanting to get in on a general election now to rock the boat and get his face on the telly are not reasons that should recommend him as a prospect to anyone with an above room temperature IQ.
