Poll skulduggery
Peter Hoskin 6:02pm
If Mike Smithson over at Political Betting is right (and he usually is), then there was a spot of Team Livingstone skulduggery behind yesterday's tit-for-tat poll exchange.
That "new" MORI poll which gives the Mayor a 2 per cent lead over Boris Johnson? Well, it turns out that it's not new at all. MORI actually conducted their research some three weeks ago. Crucially, that's before Lee Jasper was suspended.
By contrast, the YouGov poll which gave Johnson a 5 percent lead was conducted last week; after Jasper's suspension.
Smithson indicates that Livingstone purposely held back on the MORI results:
"My understanding is that Labour and Ken knew about the MORI poll almost as soon as it had been completed but it was deemed to be a deadly secret because of the closeness of the finding."
If so, it's a totemic sign of just how desperate the incumbent Mayor's become.
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David
February 28th, 2008 7:40am Report this commentNot only that, but Mike has obtained the data, and it shows that Boris is leading the second preferences, no matter how MORI asked the question.
gogo
March 28th, 2008 11:46pm Report this commentIn 20 years' time Lib/Lab/Con will be an irrelevance. 2028 will see the indidenous people vs foreigners vs muslims. You may not agree with the BNP but today, in 2008 with the door ajar for eleven years, they are the only party which opposes further immigration. For that reason alone, please give them your vote. If you think immigration isn't a problem, come to London, and experience it; walk Oxford Circus to Tottenham Court Rd; walk West Ham to Stratford; Camberell to Peckham; Penge to Crystal Palace; go to satellites like Croydon, Harrow, Slough... The three major parties are all in favour of more immigration and do not include it in their manifestos. We need to stop, breathe, and take stock.
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