Comments on: More from the Sunday Times YouGov poll

By: John T

John T — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:13:00 +0000

How about, “You don’t always get what you want”?

By: Mike Richardson

Mike Richardson — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:49:23 +0000

All the current POLLS and the share of them that are going to Labour and the Tories are straight off the back of the Liberals – something has to give shortly . Many of those Liberal %’s will drift back and forward – meaning very little till an actual election .

If I was either main party i would’nt pay too much attention to them until you see the changes coming directly from one to the other – which has’nt happened yet – it’s all off the back of the Liberals

By: Mike Richardson

Mike Richardson — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:44:32 +0000

GARY GATTER :-

I am not a naughty boy at all – just a minor adjustment 2 weeks ago to include the 1st week of October / but i still maintained over the whole 3 months that there would be no election before 2010 .

I think your prediction skills are not as good as mine Gary with all due respect – if you think that the POLLS will shift back to 33% Tory and 39% Labour / I predict very similar POLLING for both parties around the high 30′s for a couple of weeks – by Christmas Labour will be flagging as the media lay into them on every policy they come up with . NOTE MY PREDICTIONS .

You have to take into consideration the underlying question from the last POLL – where it gave the Tories 45% to Labour’s 36% of those who will actually vote / there is a growing tide of people who really do think it’s time for a change .

The Labour pop song “Things Can Only Get Better” certainl was’nt true – let’s see how realistic the Conservative pop song becomes over the next 2 years – “You Can Get It , If You Really Want”

By: Luke Blaxill (Lukw)

Luke Blaxill (Lukw) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:15:31 +0000

I agree, but the one thing we can conclude with certainty is that public opinion is extremely voliile at the moment and is apt to large sea changes when someone has a good stint in front of the camera. It is when the polls stabilise- if they stabilise – that we get an idea of the new political landscape- although we have already learned that an erratic and volitile public opinion will probably form a backdrop to it.

By: T Jones

T Jones — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:46:34 +0000

Luke W – As I said just after the Labour Conference, if there weren’t to be an election,(admittedly I thought it was nailed on)the polls that matter will be the ones that appear after the conference season. Namely the next two weekends. By which time there is no chance of an election anyway.

The big winners amongst all of this are the Pollsters who currently are being inundated by the different papers for their fieldwork.