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Tory Cabinet Thread


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Can you really take these polls that seriously , in reality do people's prospective election picks change this often ?

 

Just picking one strand from the above poll you have to believe that in a quiet week for the Lib Dems and on the surface a tough week for the Tories , nearly 10% of the electorate decided to ditch their previous LD preference or change their previously stated preference to the Tories.

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3 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Can you really take these polls that seriously , in reality do people's prospective election picks change this often ?

 

Just picking one strand from the above poll you have to believe that in a quiet week for the Lib Dems and on the surface a tough week for the Tories , nearly 10% of the electorate decided to ditch their previous LD preference or change their previously stated preference to the Tories.

To be fair when the whole party ditched their (relatively decent) ideology and went Tory it comes as no surprise that their voters are now essentially tory. 

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8 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Can you really take these polls that seriously , in reality do people's prospective election picks change this often ?

 

Just picking one strand from the above poll you have to believe that in a quiet week for the Lib Dems and on the surface a tough week for the Tories , nearly 10% of the electorate decided to ditch their previous LD preference or change their previously stated preference to the Tories.

 

The best one to look out for is Politico's 'Poll of Polls' which aggregates all of the polls and gives a much more realistic picture, though of course polls are not exacy sciences.

 

https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/

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Alex said this at the first cabinet meeting, in his head I genuinely believe that he believes he has done both of these things and can now move on such is the level of his narcissism.

 

'He set out that this government has a record of getting things done, including delivering on Brexit and taking on one of the most difficult questions that has bedevilled British governments for decades through the health and care levy which will fix the social care system and enable our NHS to bounce back from the pandemic.'

 

Neither are in anyway done, or fixed, far, far fucking from it yet he cheers them as if they are and his cabinet of seals are too scared to point of he isn't wearing any clothes.

 

He needs to go as soon as possible the damage he is doing, and is yet to do, will set us back generations.

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10 hours ago, sir roger said:

As you know I am no Lib Dem advocate , but the general point was that the polls seem far too erratic over a short period for me to give them much credence.

The main problem with them is the margin of error- for a poll of a thousand or so people, there's a 95% chance that they're within plus or minus 3% of the actual parties' voting intention. It's good enough to get a rough guide as to whether a party has dropped or gained over 5 or 10 polls, but any individual one is pretty much meaningless, especially with all the fudge factors thrown in. Even a poll of polls is liable to be way off if one or two of them have been 'badly' done.

 

That anyone pays even the remotest attention to them several years out from a General Election is a real triumph for the polling companies.

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6 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Some laugh out loud stuff in here.

 

Therese Coffey - ' Carl Beech in a nice chiffon scarf '

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/17/herpes-boris-johnson-ministers-cabinet-reshuffle

I love the sub-headline- "Some of the most enduring quarterwits have gone. So who’s been added to the bestiary?"

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