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Intensive Vote Farming in Barnet
The spread of foot-and-mouth disease through the rural areas has brought the rural vote back to the top of the election agenda - although, at the same time, it has thrown into some doubt whether there will be an election at all when we have all been confidently expecting it, on 3 May. I have already written [Rural Voters - 20 October 2000] about how much smaller and less influential the rural vote is than almost everybody supposes. But even some of those rural areas are simply rural in the sense of not being urban; they are not full of farmers. The genuinely agricultural vote is smaller still.
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Fastest Growing E-Commerce Business In US History Launches In The UK With keen.co.uk
MORI survey shows nearly nine in ten of the British would rather talk to a person than turn to the Internet for advice and information
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MORI Finds BBC Public Consultation "Not A Reliable Guide To Public Opinion"
A MORI report commissioned by major UK commercial broadcasters has shown today that the BBC's public consultation on its proposed new digital services is "clearly not representative of the public in any meaningful sense and cannot be considered a reliable measurement of public opinion."
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Low Awareness of Government's Stakeholder Pension Initiative
A new MORI poll released today by Accenture reveals public awareness of the government's nationwide stakeholder pension initiative to be extremely low - just weeks before its launch.
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Regional Patterns Of Swing
A few weeks ago I wrote here about how many seats each of the parties could hope to win in the election, assuming various levels of swing from the 1997 result; but I entered a caveat that this assumed uniform national swing, which in practice is unlikely.
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Political Attitudes in Great Britain for February 2001
Q1 How would you vote if there were a General Election tomorrow?
[If undecided or refused at Q1]
Q2 Which party are you most inclined to support?
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Spinning Out Of Control
The mightiest spin doctor of our time has now spun out of control. Peter Mandelson's lost the plot, and is now doing himself more damage than he is his party, his colleagues, his Prime Minister. A tragedy of our time.
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Scientists Believe Public Needs To Know About What Their Research Means For Society
Nine in ten scientists believe that the public needs to know about the social and ethical implications of scientific research, according to a new study from biomedical research charity the Wellcome Trust.