Will a third of Lib Dems vote Labour?

It’s another one for John Rentoul’s “Questions to which the answer is no”. An article by Sam Coates in the Times says that “Labour’s election planners believe an 8-point gap between the current party of Government and the Tories can be closed. They say that a third of Lib Dem voters have suggested that [...]

Nice party…for a protest vote

Populus’s annual conference poll, in which they include questions they can publish before each of the three conferences, is one of the few times we can guarantee to get some questions asked about the Liberal Democrats. This year is no different.
On one front the poll has good news for them. It reveals a very positive [...]

The Lib Dems in a hung Parliament

On his blog Iain Dale has a presentation from a Lib Dem conference last spring that included some polling on attitudes towards coalitions. As the third party the media don’t often commission interesting polling stuff about the Lib Dems, so it’s nice to have some. Sadly he only has the presentation from a discussion session [...]

While the Lib Dems’ MORI poll shows that, offered the choice, people prefer a referendum on EU membership to one just the Treaty, Iwantareferendum have in turn released an ICM poll of people who voted Lib Dem at the last election suggesting they’d prefer to be asked about both.
In ICM’s poll support for a referendum [...]

…but they’d prefer one on the EU as a whole

The Liberal Democrats have commissioned a poll to defend their policy on the referendum issue. The Ipsos MORI poll found 54% of people supported a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, with 27% opposed.
Asked if people would prefer a referendum on the current EU treaty or membership as a whole, people much prefered [...]

New Year round-up: Liberal Democrats

So to the last of my three start of the year posts (sorry for those you wanted an SNP one, I really don’t want to parade my ignorance of Scottish politics!). What do the polls say about the Lib Dems? Well, the brutal answer is not a lot. To an extent that’s because no one [...]