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WEBA local Lib Dem press release brings the news of more additions to the Lib Dem councillor ranks in Shropshire:. David Minnery, Shropshire Councillor for Market Drayton West, has announced he has joined the Liberal Democrat group at Shirehall, taking his seat with the Lib Dems at the last Full Council meeting.
Latest voting intention and leadership ratings opinion polls - Mark …
WEB6 days ago · Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention polls for the next general election, along with party leadership ratings. If you’d like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email, The Week in Polls:
PollBase: British voting intention opinion polls since 1943 - Mark …
WEBPollBase Pro. Jack Bailey and Luke Mansillo have taken this data and turned it into PollBase Pro, daily estimates of aggregate voting intention in Great Britain from 1955.Details here.. Background to PollBase. For years I have been accumulating data about national voting intention opinion polls in the UK and have records of various sorts stretching back to 1943.
Local council by-election results: see them in full - Mark Pack
WEBHere’s my coverage of all the local council by-election results in Britain, updated each week as the results come in. You can track the running tally of seats changing hands in my scorecard here. I include all principal authority by-elections (i.e. …
From no candidate to nearly winning: council by-election results
WEBAug 30, 2024 · Thank you to Riad Mannan for having been the Liberal Democrat candidate. For what all this means for the running total of council by-election results since the last May elections, see my council by-elections scorecard here. These by-election results round-ups cover principal authority by-elections as it’s only those for …
How Margaret Thatcher really won the 1979 general election
WEBJan 26, 2020 · The 1979 general election is now a long time ago. But like 1945 its political lessons – or supposed lessons (including for the Liberal Democrats) – still echo, feeling relevant to very contemporary questions.. Myths about how the Conservatives won in 1979. At first glance, the lesson of 1979 is that Jeremy Corbyn‘s approach to being leader of the Labour Party could have worked.
Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidates, 2024 general election
WEBJun 6, 2024 · Before an election, candidates are often called Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) rather than just simple candidates. Here’s why… Way back, the law around election expenses made it very advantageous to avoid officially declaring someone to be your candidate until a few weeks out from polling day.
Operation Amsterdam: a daring true story from 1940 - Mark Pack
WEBJan 13, 2016 · This dramatic tale in Operation Amsterdam – made all the better by the knowledge that it is based on real events – follows two Dutchmen and a British spy as they try to stop Holland’s store of industrial diamonds from falling into the hands of the Nazis in 1940.. Dispatched from Britain shortly after the German invasion of Holland, they get to the Amsterdam diamond market just ahead of ...
Paddy Ashdown’s eight steps to winning a Parliamentary …
WEBOct 4, 2021 · Good old pavement politics and paper leaflets. In 2010, we won 2 seats in Carshalton Central (in the London Borough of Sutton) ward back from the Tories by seemingly endless deliveries of our local leaflets (street letters) over a four year period… and a hefty 4-5% swing to Lib Dems.
Help! I've been selected for Parliament. What do I do next? - Mark …
WEBSep 22, 2019 · There’s a whole set of advice, support and training available for any Liberal Democrat member who wants to become a Parliamentary candidate.Once you are selected as a Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC – a piece of jargon explained here), however, it all rather drops away unless you are in a target seat. So here are my nine tips (updated from an earlier list of eight) on what to do ...