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13 March 2010 0 Comments
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 [...]
Tagged in Chief Culprit, Clock News, Daily Basis, General Election, Inevitable Outcome, Ladbrokes, Methodologies, Mike Smithson, O Clock, Opinion Polls, Oppotunities, Political Observers, Political Significance, Pollsters, Punditry, Pusher, Rumour Mill, Sheer Number, Sunday Times, Yougov
Election 2010, politics
11 March 2010 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tagged in Benefit, Blog, Budget, Conservatives, Crowd, General Election, Government Information Service, Ground War, Job, Outsourcing, Rebuttal, Wisdom Of Crowds
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23 February 2010 0 Comments
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 [...]
Tagged in Constituency, Dreadful, General Election, Geraldine, Labour Member, Member Of Parliament, Mp, Own Website, Parliament, Sickle And Hammer
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19 February 2010 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tagged in Eccles, Future Fair, General Election, Hat Tip, Humour, Labour, Ppc, Scope, Slogan, Worsley
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17 February 2010 0 Comments
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 [...]
Tagged in Angels, Archbishop Cranmer, Curate, England, General Election, Independence Party Candidate, Labour, Marginal Seats, Page Photo, Penistone, Photos Of People, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Public Comments, Publicity, Rape, South Yorkshire, Stockbridge, Uk Independence Party, Uk Polling Report, Ukip, Vote, Yorkshire
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21 January 2010 0 Comments
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 [...]
Tagged in Anoraks, Blogspot, Constituencies, Count Staff, Election Night, Fatigue, General Election, Iain Dale, Iaindale, Intention, Jack Straw, Legislation, Market Turmoil, Political Spectrum, Political Tradition, Principle, Returning Officers, Risk, Speaker Of The House
Hoons, politics
6 January 2010 4 Comments
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 [...]
Tagged in Bollocks, Caption, Clue, Cowards, Dear Colleague, Election Campaign, Frustration, General Election, Geoff Hoon, gordon brown, Hewitt, Minimum Disruption, Mps, Nick Brown, Parliamentary Labour Party, Political Performance, prime-minister, Retribution, Secret Ballot, Tea Room
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26 July 2009 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tagged in Alphabet, Cameron, Conservative Edge, Dorries, General Election, Nadine, Objective, Online Resource, Paying Attention, Political Blogs, Politics Directory, Total Politics
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2 July 2009 1 Comment
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.
Tagged in Allegation, Apologised, Assertions, Ben Bradshaw, Benches, Chris Bryant, conservative party, Conservatives, david cameron, General Election, Homophobia, Homosexuality In Schools, New Britain, Old School, Pride Event, Rainbow Banner, Section 28, Striking Example, Throwback, Tories
Hoons, politics
24 April 2009 0 Comments
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 [...]
Tagged in Affirmation, Bone Of Contention, Borough Councils, Constituencies, Constituency, Constituents, Disgrace, Explanatory Notes, Favour, General Election, Halls Of Residence, House Of Commons, Houses Of Parliament, John Lewis, Mandate, Members Of The House Of Commons, Monarch, Mps, Northern Ireland, Public Representatives, Republican Friends, Salaries, Shortcomings, Sinn FéIn, Taxation Without Representation