Polls apart

It’s interesting, but not all that surprising how Peter Black prefers Ian Dale’s assessment of electoral outcomes rather than the gloomier projections on sites elsewhere. It makes a change to have someone else other than the Lib Dems talking up their chances but that doesn’t make them any more credible.

Bizarrely however, ICM reports little change in the polls arising from the Hoon-Hewitt internecine debacle other than a slight discernable shift in favour of Labour (margins of error permitting and all that).

This could well change following Cameron’s sturdy performance with Andrew Marr this morning in which he showed no intention of getting wrong-footed by Labour’s sudden shift towards upfront austerity rather than delayed pain.

Another factor might be the book which Mr Dale’s company is publishing on the memoirs of embittered ex-New Labour apparatchik Peter Watt who found himself caught out as the sacrificial meat in the donor-kebab scandal of few years back. Based on the teaser extracts printed in the Daily Mail (where else?) it promises to be a bit repetitive in scope. We quite like the title though.

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(CS)