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Sorted by Month: April 2010
Communication Lessons from the General Election: Part 2
The pack mentality of the media is a wonderfully powerful thing. To be observed and appreciated at a respectful distance – a bit like a killer whale. This was witnessed by us all who sat enthralled watching Sky News through …Read Post
Final Leaders Debate Analysis
Post Debate polls: Lazarus/Channel 4 News: Brown 44%, Clegg: 42% Cameron 13% YouGov/Sun: Cameron 41%, Clegg 32%, Brown 25% ComRes/ITV News: Cameron 35%, Clegg 33%, Brown 26% Populus/Times: Cameron 38%, Clegg 38%, Brown 25% ICM/Guardian: Cameron 35%, Brown 29%, Clegg …Read Post
Campaign Latest April 29
So now we have the defining image of the election campaign: Brown, head in hands, sinking into his seat. It was taken half an hour after he insulted a lifelong Labour voter, and presumably minutes after he realised he had …Read Post
‘Thick of It’ Update
Gordon Brown this afternoon beat a path to ‘insulted voter’ Gillian Duffy’s home in Rochdale as part of a hastily cobbled together damage limitation exercise after this morning’s unfortunate incident with a microphone. Needless to say, it was a debacle. …Read Post
Brown’s ‘Thick of It’ Moment
When Gillian Duffy got up this morning, the last thing she thought would happen would be to get called a ‘bigot’ by the Prime Minister, leaving her humiliated and upset in front of the nation live on Sky News. Insulting …Read Post
Communication Lessons From the General Election: Part 1
Many businesses we talk to on a day-to-day basis, much like the vast majority of the rest of the country, fail to take much notice of the General Election campaign. Most will have an appreciation of a few key issues …Read Post
Campaign Latest April 28
A flurry of polls this morning have shown some consensus: the Conservatives have slightly increased their lead, at the expense of the Liberal Democrats and Labour, who are more or less neck and neck. None of the polls point to …Read Post
The Winners and Losers of the Airline Volcano Fiasco
Perhaps a bit like people knowing where they were when JFK died (or in my case Kurt Cobain), we will all remember the strange time when all air traffic was grounded for days on end. Not since the dawn of …Read Post
Campaign Latest
Nick Clegg continues to call the shots as the General Election campaign becomes more and more about the Liberal Democrats, electoral reform and now, ‘anyone but Gordon’. The destiny of the United Kingdom seems to change every day as Clegg …Read Post
Labour Publish Health Manifesto
Labour have today published a manifesto specific to health. As would be expected, there are major similarities between the Health Manifesto published today and the main Labour Manifesto published earlier this month. The main differences are set out below.
