digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/03/13/polls-for-breakfast-polls-for-dinner/’;
digg_title = ‘Polls for breakfast, polls for dinner’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Opinion polls are the methodone fix for unreconstructed politics addicts between elections.  Our resident pusher is Mike Smithson, the genial and analytically astute host of http://politicalbetting.com, a site which pulls together the rumour-mill, the important political; stories of the day and opinion polls, for [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/03/11/outsourcing-the-budget/’;
digg_title = ‘Outsourcing the budget’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Dizzy, on his as-usual spot-on blog, has made a case for conservatives to prepare for the ground-war that will accompany the budget on March 24.   His reasoning is impeccable; March 25th is the last practicable date for an announcement of a May 6th General Election.  Controlling [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/02/23/geraldine-dreadful-mp-wants-her-own-website/’;
digg_title = ‘Geraldine Dreadful MP wants her own website’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Geraldine Dreadful MP, Labour member of Parliament for the midlands constituency of Sickle and Hammer East is demanding her own Constituency Website. Is this a development you’d welcome as we enter the General Election?
Let me know at ben@nabidana.com
Related Posts:Polls for breakfast, polls [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/02/19/a-future-free-for-all/’;
digg_title = ‘A future free-for-all’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Labour seems to be about to announce the general election date, so let’s prepare by doing a number on their new election slogan ‘A future fair for all’.
Hat tip to Iain Lindley, the excellent young Conservative PPC for Eccles and Worsley South for pointing out the scope [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/02/17/grant-french-ukip-prospective-parliamentary-candidate-for-stockbridge-and-penistone/’;
digg_title = ‘Grant French, UKIP Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Penistone and Stockbridge’;
digg_bodytext = ‘I’ve decided to kick off my run-up to the General Election by covering the public comments on the subject of rape of one Grant French, the UK Independence Party Candidate for Penistone and Stockbridge in South Yorkshire.
I have edited the [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/21/save-general-election-night/’;
digg_title = ‘Save General Election Night’;
digg_bodytext = ‘The government really needs to step in with a piece of legislation to ensure that the next General Election is counted on the night of the election. It’s disgraceful that 275 constituencies still haven’t certified their intention to count on the night.
The possibility of market [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/06/the-letter-from-hoon-and-hewitt-translated-from-labourspeak-to-english/’;
digg_title = ‘The letter from Hoon and Hewitt, translated from Labourspeak to English’;
digg_bodytext = ‘
Dear Colleague,
Fellow cowards,
As we move towards a General Election it remains the case that the Parliamentary Labour Party is deeply divided over the question of the leadership.
Like you, Patricia and I don’t much like Gordon Brown, but most [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/07/26/now-listed-and-legal/’;
digg_title = ‘Now listed and legal…’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Nábídána.com is now listed with the Total Politics directory of political blogs, under ‘Conservative’. Perhaps the most amusing thing about it is that, due to the alphabet, we’re listed exactly beside Nadine Dorries, whom I may have been a little bold about before…
Seriously though, we’re [...]

Labour is getting desperate to portray the Conservatives as inherently nasty, deeply worrying and a danger to the UK. This is dangerously out of step with the general public’s thinking on the parties, and is a throwback to the time before the 1997 General Election.

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/04/24/ni-mp-expenses/’;
digg_title = ‘NI MP expenses’;
digg_bodytext = ‘UnionistLite comments on his excellent blog that one solution to the troughing of Northern Ireland MPs might be, in part at least, the end of multiple mandate. He’s right, of course; I would extend that one person one mandate principle all the way down to district and [...]