DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 30, 2024 RIP, Lonnie George:  I’ll leave it to others to examine the Del-Tech aspect of the story.  For me, Lonnie was the Speaker of the House during my first two years working for the Delaware General Assembly.  Much to everyone’s surprise, likely including Lonnie and Bob Gilligan, the Democrats won control of the House in 1982.  […]
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Latest general election voting intention opinion polls Here are the latest general election voting intention figures from each of the polling firms currently running national surveys.
https://www.markpack.org.uk/15....5623/voting-intentio

Unusual poll finding: young people most hopeful about Conservative chances Curious age breaks on this new poll from Deltapoll: the younger a voter is, the more likely they are to say that...
https://www.markpack.org.uk/17....2988/unusual-poll-fi

Scrap Ofwat and change the water companies Tim Farron on Radio 4 explaining the Liberal Democrat solution to the mess that is the water industry, and how we'd get sewage out of our rivers and off our beaches.
https://www.markpack.org.uk/17....2992/scrap-ofwat-and

How an alternative to the polls did in 1997 From the Daily Telegraph, 1 May 1997: John Major has got Tony Blair licked, according to Thorntons. The chocolate company yesterday revealed that lollipops of Major’s head had topped their polls. He seized 38pc of the 100,000 novelties sold, beating Blair on 31pc. Screaming Lord Sutch got 17pc, rather better than Paddy Ashdown‘s 13pc. The […]
https://www.markpack.org.uk/17....2994/how-an-alternat