Comments on: Populus show Tories dropping below 40%

By: Paul Smith

Paul Smith — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:55:06 +0000

As someone who runs a charity the VAT reduction has reduced the cost of buying services – which will be true for all businesses

By: TONY JONES

TONY JONES — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:30:35 +0000

“this peculiar little closing of the gap in the POLLS is going to be a very short lived episode”.

“Hello is that John McCain, what is it like to be president”

“What do you mean you are not president The Oracle said you where going to win and he never gets his predic tions wrong,he told us dozens of times”

By: TONY JONES

TONY JONES — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:21:51 +0000

Mark – Nice to see you enjoyed the interview of Osbourne as well. Anyone can answer questions by saying that what the government is doing is wrong.

You look a complete fool when asked what he would do to reply…”I don’t know”.

Cameron wants his mate to become chancellor, no wonder the polls are pointing to an increase in the Brown/Darling,Cameron/Osbourne lead on the current economy.

On a personal note I wish Osbourne could be interviewed every day.

By: thomas

thomas — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:21:49 +0000

The general rule of the economist is to disbelieve the prediction until you have understood the explanation, and even then remain sceptical.

I believe that is remarkably similar to the general rule of the psephologist.

…something called the scientific method, I daresay.

By: john tt

john tt — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:17:21 +0000

The treasury people know that a 2.5% cut wouldn’t bring people out to the shops as a headline, but the effect of the measure is to put £18bn into the economy. That will have its own effect, not entirely related to the rather simplistic “it’s only 13p off” analysis.