A Tale of Two Cities: great opening line, great opening paragraph
May 31, 2012 · A Tale of Two Cities: not just a great opening line, also a great opening paragraph. Even people with only the most cursory knowledge of the writings of Charles Dickens usually know about the fantastic start to A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Never having read the book, I recently decided to put ...
Local council by-election results: see them in full - Mark Pack
Council by-election results. Here’s my coverage of all the local council by-election results in Britain, updated each week as the results come in. You can track the running tally of seats changing hands in my scorecard here. I include all principal authority by-elections (i.e. borough, district, county and unitary – plus the City of London ...
Latest voting intention and leadership ratings opinion polls - Mark …
4 days ago · November 1, 2024 - 6:37 pm. Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention polls for the next general election, along with party leadership ratings. If you’d like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of ...
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A local Lib Dem press release brings the news of more additions to the Lib Dem councillor ranks in Shropshire:. David Minnery, Shropshire Councillor for Market Drayton West, has announced he has joined the Liberal Democrat group at Shirehall, taking his seat with the Lib Dems at the last Full Council meeting.
Latest PollBase is out, with all the British voting intention polls ...
Oct 12, 2024 · With the end of another, rather interesting, quarter, another update to PollBase, my database of British voting intention opinion polls since 1943 is now up.
What do the Liberal Democrats believe? - Mark Pack
Like all political philosophies, ours is based on a view of human nature. The Liberal Democrat view is an optimistic one. We believe in the essential goodness and improvability of humankind – that, given the opportunity, in most circumstances most people will choose to do good rather than harm. Liberal Democrats trust individuals to make ...
Mark Pack's post about politics, polling and related matters
Mark. 1 Hello to my long-running Amstrad E-mailer reader. Do let me know if you are still using it! 2 Sure, a new member on their first day in the party can register for Federal Conference and, under the party’s rules, have one vote in a key policy debate, just the same as the one vote the party leader gets.
Liberal landslide: the 1906 election - Mark Pack
Apr 14, 2020 · The scale of the 1906 landslide – in which all but three of the previous Tory Cabinet were defeated – was rather exaggerated by the vagaries of Britain’s first past the post electoral system. Although it was a landslide in terms of seats, the Liberals only polled 300,000 votes (6%) more than the Conservatives.
Council by-election results scorecard 2024-2025 - Mark Pack
6 days ago · Council by-election results scorecard 2024-2025. November 7, 2024 - 11:45 pm. Here’s the tally of seats changing hands in principal authority council by-elections held between the May 2024 and the May 2025 local elections, including those held at the same time as the 2024 general election: Con. Lab.
Opinion polls: national voting intentions and more - Mark Pack
Opinion polls. Read below my posts about UK political opinion polls and related matters, especially how the different parties are doing in voting intention surveys. You can sign up for my email digests of political polling news here or for my weekly round-up, The Week in Polls, here. To find out more about how political polls work, check out my ...