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More Bad News For The Tories
More bad news for the Conservatives in the latest polls. NOP is the only major polling company reported in papers today — as both the Observer (ICM) and the Sunday Telegraph (MORI) take a break in mid-campaign from spending the money to find out that the Labour Party is still flat-lining in the polls.
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Petrol Buyers Would Boycott Esso
A newly published MORI poll for the Stop Esso Campaign shows 53 percent of petrol buyers would boycott Esso because of the company's attempts to block action on global warming. Figures for Esso's existing customers are virtually identical. A telephone survey by Greenpeace of leading supermarkets revealed that ASDA, Tesco and Morrisons do not supply Esso fuels, Safeway's does supply Esso fuels and Sainsbury's refuse to reveal its suppliers.
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Research Shows That Small Companies Need To Invest More In Their People
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) claim that staff are their most important asset but this is not reflected in their actions, according to a new research report to be launched on May 16, 2001 by businesshr, a specialist human resources advisory service for SMEs.
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Issues Don't Count (As Much As They Should)
Politicians and pundits alike decry that 'this election should be about the issues'. Yet personalities intrude. In the four-sided tetrahedron that drives my model of voting behaviour, 'values' count for most, as roughly 80% of the public have their mind made up before any election is called, and most of them don't change the habits of a lifetime, in the aggregate.
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Stirring Up Apathy
This is the most boring election in this century/decade/since the war/lately/whatever. How many elections is it that I've been hearing that? Nine is it? Every election news editors send some tyro journo out to stir up apathy, and prove once again that this is the most boring election since the year dot.
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General Election 2001 - Election Digest
Three polls in the Sunday newspapers show Labour going into the second week of the campaign with a commanding lead. They also provide insights into the public's views on the key issues in the election.