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Lib Dem President and Life Peer. Author, "Polling UnPacked" / http://www.theweekinpolls.co.uk / https://libdemnewswire.substack.com / imprint + privacy http://markpack.org.uk/legal-privacy / he/him
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The problem with citing polling like this is that it's as if you'd polled people to ask (a) would you like to eat some lovely chocolate cake, and (b) would you like to eat healthily: it's no surprise that people give 'contradictory' answers as that's what the questions lead them to do. It's why...

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Donations to Candidates at Election Time: A Hidden Source of Mass Party Funding?

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Most puzzling moment of the day: walking past two people who were saying "Sandi Toksvig, Chris Smith, Muhammad Ali".

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Reform accused of ‘paralysing’ Kent Council amid spate of cancelled meetings

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Shrinkflation: Supermarkets could be forced to tell customers if they are paying more for less

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The strengths and weaknesses of Reform's standing in the polls buff.ly/zCfXLYE

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Really interesting article from @markpackuk.bsky.social about how Reform’s current lead in the polls might not be as straightforward as it seems. Well worth a read. theweekinpolls.substack.com/p/strengths-...

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A further twist: www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...

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A monster that disguises itself as a pothole on a dark country road and eats people who pass over it? Now you're talking.

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MP falsely accused of calling Farage a 'c***' in AI-edited video shared by Reform

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Thinking of standing for election or re-election next year? Helpful questions to consider

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I wonder if we're living through a big political experiment, where many politicians take as their key metric of success not their standing in the polls, or election results, or fundraising totals, or membership figures but social media engagement statistics?

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Once again, John Profumo rises a little more in my estimation.

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Sneak footnote preview from this evening's The Week in Polls. Sign up here for all the goldfish news: theweekinpolls.substack.com

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Update: in just the month since the local elections, the Conservatives have lost 44 more councillors, and gained 4, for a net loss of 40, more than one a day.

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Today marks the beginning of Pride Month - now more than ever, we must stand with the LGBTQ+ community. I want to make clear that our party will keep fighting - until we can finally build a society where everyone is free to be who they are. www.libdems.org.uk/news/article/pride-month-2025

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Public opinion in turbulent times: Neville Chamberlain's approval ratings

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Always fun when something you've been doing for decades turns up as an innovation for someone else!

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Read an exclusive extract from Ed Davey's new book:

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I think I will enjoy this piece of cycling commentary from The Guardian for quite a while :) (Simon Yates wasn't out of it. He went off to pull of an amazing win on the final proper racing day of a a three week race, at the very place where he imploded to lose spectacularly many years ago.)

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Could it be you? New vacancy listed on Lib Dem website: Campaigns Organiser (Thornbury & Yate)

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Very tempted to stay here just so I can sit in the lobby every evening to see what happens.

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