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Is Brian Coleman losing it? Tory cllr “goes mad” at shopkeepers

9:05pm Tue May 1st

Tory councillor Brian Coleman has been accused of “going mad” after storming into high street stores and screaming at staff.

According to shop-owners on High Barnet’s high street, Coleman demanded that staff remove posters campaigning against his re-election. Anna Constantiou, owner of a hair salon on the street, explained how she felt forced to take down her poster:

“He was going mad and shouting. He was right in my face and wouldn’t leave when I asked him. He was intimidating.”

High Barnet’s shop-workers launched a poster campaign against Coleman after Barnet Council hiked car parking permit prices up from £42 to £100 per year and increased the price of visitors’ parking passes by 300%.

The posters featured slogans encouraging residents not to vote for Brian, including “Sack Brian”, “Anyone But Coleman” and Scrapbook’s personal favourite:

“Brian Coleman: Wanted for the murder of Barnet’s High Street”

Costing the taxpayer £120,000 per year, Coleman is one of the UK’s highest-paid councillors. Our post caused a storm on Twitter last week after he was caught calling a nurse “a twat”, then telling residents to “clear off”.

We trust the voters of London to will be giving Brian a (permanent) holiday on Thursday.

YouGov: Goat more popular than Lib Dems

8:33am Sat July 24th

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It’s the goat story that shows no signs of slowing down! This week, Scrapbook reported that after showing up the Treasury’s “Spending Challenge” site, many were wondering how long it would be until the goat* became more popular than the Liberal Democrats.

Well, it appears we need ponder no longer. A YouGov poll, released this week, puts the Liberal Democrats on a lowly 13%. As this is an evidence-based gossip blog, Scrapbook set about poring over the figures and discovered something explosive: the goat already has more followers than the Lib Dems.

In a poll of over 2000 people, just 243 said they would vote for the junior coalition partners if there was an election tomorrow.

Meanwhile, over 900 people have been swept up in Goatmania**.

*As co-owners, Scrapbook would rather not be involved in the factionalism that threatens to tear the left apart over the issue of naming the goat.

**If you’re still unsure why you should #VoteGoat, read this.

Anxious Tory sweat part deux

12:42am Wed March 24th

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Poll watching is done better and more quickly by other blogs but, while not wishing to tempt fate, tomorrow’s Mirror front page is a corker for its playground cheek:

Labour may breathe a sigh of relief with polls showing a “conspicuous lack of impact” from the fake lobbyists sting and no boost for “Sam Cam the Mam”. LabourList calculates that both return Labour as the biggest party on a uniform swing.

Is that the smell of anxious sweat again?

Times/Populus poll puts Labour and Tories "neck and neck" in crucial marginal seats

6:30am Tue March 9th

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A Populus survey for The Times has Labour level pegging with the Tories in the crucial seats that will decide the next election.

The Times’ Peter Riddel writes: “The poll suggests that recent talk of a Tory “wobble” has affected voters’ expectations” with “a swing of about 6.7 per cent to the Tories from Labour since 2005 in those seats”.
Anthony Wells at UK Polling Report calculates that “the swing this poll suggests in the marginals is the equivalent of a 10 point lead nationally, a larger lead than most polls from other companies have been showing in recent weeks”.

In YouGov’s daily poll the Tories maintain their slender five point gap over Labour with both parties up 1 against the Lib Dems.

Curioser and curioser.

Labour leap to 29-point lead in shock new poll

8:48pm Tue January 12th

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Rather than a poll of Joe Public, however, politicos will be unsurprised to discover that this was a survey of voluntary sector workers asked which party would be best for charities and other non-profits.

Still, the third sector is central to current Conservative thinking and yet charity staff collectively retch at the prospect of Cameron in Number 10.

Long memories, eh?

Hat-tip: LabourList

Populus poll would leave Cameron 20 short of majority

8:39pm Mon December 7th

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Peter Riddell reports that the latest Populus poll for The Times shows the Conservative lead cut to single digits for the first time this year. If this was replicated nationally on election day, running these through Electoral Calculus shows that the outcome would be a hung parliament with David Cameron 20 seats short of a majority.

As rumours of the figures spread across the twittersphere, one leading Tory blogger poured cold water on this filip to Labour activists:

As his friends will testify, Scrapbook is always up for a bit of nonsense and wouldn’t want to disappoint the bear.

Game on!

Political Betting poll brings Labour supporters back to earth with a bump

7:43pm Mon November 23rd

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A day after many Labourites cracked a smile at MORI polling showing a dramatically reduced lead for the Conservatives, a Political Betting poll with fieldwork finishing today shows, erm, well…

Observer poll slashes Tory lead to six points

2:28pm Sun November 22nd

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As Kevin Maguire tweeted, “one poll doesn’t make a Labour Spring”, but the latest Ipsos MORI poll certainly does make a very welcome Sunday morning tonic for Labour supporters (god knows Scrapbook needed one).

Reaction:

The Observer front page article
Bob Worcester of Ipsos MORI: Why the Tories are worried and the Lib Dems are hopeful
Political Betting: Has Labour got a by-election poll boost from MORI?
A word of warning from Alex Smith over at LabourList

As Labour’s newest MP said nine days ago, “game on”!

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