Analysis Topic: Election Oracle
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Gordon Brown and Senior Labour Officials Promote Tactical Voting to Keep Conservatives Out / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Senior Labour party officials including Tessa Jowell, Peter Hain and Edd Balls called on Liberal Democrat and Labour voters to vote tactically to keep the Conservatives out.
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Monday, May 03, 2010
Sheffield Constituencies MP Candidates For May 6th 2010 General Election / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: N_Walayat
This article lists Sheffield's current sitting MP's, the results of the 2005 general election, candidates for the forthcoming General Election to be held on 6th May 2010, and the percentage swing that would be result in a change.
Monday, May 03, 2010
Nick Clegg on Sheffield Life Expectancy Disparity Between Rich and Poor Areas of the City / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: N_Walayat
During last Thursdays Priministerial debate, Nick Clegg the Liberal Democrat leader and MP for Sheffield Hallam constituency introduced into the debate the wide disparity in the life expectancy in Sheffield between affluent and deprived area's of the city by stating :
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Britain's Election, Welcome to No Choice Democracy / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Global_Research
Finian Cunningham writes: British voters go to the polls on Thursday in a general election that promises to be historic – for all the wrong reasons.
Sunday, May 02, 2010
British Parliamentary Democracy A Triumph of Victorian Engineering / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: William_Bowles
To understand what's going on with Britain today we have to look back to the 19th century and the rise of industrial/mercantile capitalism, for it was during that period that the Victorians got into the business of myth-making in a big way, rewriting our history almost completely. Truly a triumph of Victorian engineering.
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Sheffield Darnall Local Election 2010 Health Issues Debate / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: N_Walayat
All of the candidates of the main parties standing for the Darnall Local Election and the Parliamentary election for the Sheffield South East constituency which includes Darnall were invited to comment on the poor quality of local health service delivery for the people of Darnall as evidenced by the Department of Health funded UK GP Patient Survey that firmly ranks Darnall GP Surgery at the bottom of Sheffield's 91 GP Surgeries as illustrated by the below table that measures overall patient satisfaction:
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Bigot Gate, Does Gordon Brown Despise Labour Voters In Private? / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
UK General Election Tipping Point Against Labour - After an 10 minute exchange with a Gillian Duffy a 66 year old life long Labour voter concerning issues such as the National Debt and Immigration, Gordon Brown when getting into his car left his radio microphone on and referred to the Labour voter as a bigot.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Sheffield Darnall Ward May 2010 Local Election Candidates / ElectionOracle / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Local elections to elect Sheffield city councillors take place on May 6th, on the same day as the General Election when voters will be given two ballot papers to mark an X on (one for local and one for the General election).
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Sheffield City Council Local Election Candidates May 6th 2010 / ElectionOracle / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The following is a list of all of the candidates standing for the 29 Sheffield City Council local election seats on May 6th 2010.
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Incentive to Work and Pay Taxes, a Radical UK Electoral System Reform Idea / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Taxes, Electoral reform and immigration are all political hot potatoes during the general election campaign as the country is trending towards a hung parliament that gives a once in a life time opportunity for the Liberal Democrats to CHANGE the electoral system.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Short Sterling and the U.K. General Election / ElectionOracle / UK Interest Rates
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
The Macro Trader’s view:
How will the election affect the Short Sterling market?
Until recently it was widely assumed in the market that UK interest rates were on hold for the rest of 2010. The Bank of England suggested that a spike in inflation would soon resolve to below-target CPI for much of the two-year forecast period.
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
UK General Election Forecast 2010 Hung Parliament and Lib-Lab Pact Probable / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The clear winner in the first Prime Ministerial debate was Nick Clegg, the primary reasons for this were:
a. David Cameron had been coached by tory strategists into NOT attacking his opponents and to try portray the Conservative party as the friendly party which did not work.
b. Gordon Brown embarrassingly trying to ingratiate himself with the Lib Dem leader. How many times did he say "I agree with Nick", only to be immediately rebuffed by Nick Clegg.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Labours Election Manifesto Full of Promises But Missing Spending Cuts or Tax Rises / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Labour party launched its election manifesto today that in great detail listed a string of promises to increase spending and not to increase income tax.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Voting for Gold vs Voting for Gordon Brown / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Adrian_Ash
Dave Cameron is no Margaret Thatcher, but Gordon Brown is very much a friend to gold...
SOCIALIST GOLD-OWNERS are rarer than Tory foxes. But should British gold investors, one month from now, vote against the man who ignored the Bank of England's best advice – and sold over half of the UK's gold reserves at the very lowest prices a decade ago?
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
UK General Election to be Decided by 20% of Voters in Marginal Constituencies / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The mainstream press obsess over opinion polls to predominantly determine the average swing from Labour to Conservative (currently 5%). However these general opinion polls are pretty much useless as 80% of voters will have no say in the outcome of the election which will be decided in just 120 marginal seats out of the total of 650.
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Friday, April 09, 2010
The UK Stocks, Bonds and British Pound Elections and Volatility Analysis / ElectionOracle / Financial Markets 2010
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
With volatility across all asset classes globally at or near recent lows the question is: where is volatility going now? Normally, an options trader uses low volatility to build up long positions ( going ‘long premium’) in the options market as increasing volatility drags up option prices. However, since the start of 2010 options traders who have used any sell-off in volatility to buy options have lost out in most cases as volatility has just fallen further.
Friday, April 09, 2010
German Bankster's Back Conservative Party in UK General Election / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank has thrown its weight behind the Conservative party in an 82 page report "UK Election what if? " stating that a Conservative win would boost the stock market.
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Friday, April 09, 2010
Sheffield UK General Election 2010 Candidates and Forecast / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: N_Walayat
This article lists Sheffield's current sitting MP's, the results of the 2005 general election, candidates for the forthcoming General Election to be held on 6th May 2010, and the percentage swing needed to replace the sitting MP.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Labour Conservative Election N.I. Tax Smoke and Mirrors Debate Facts / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
On face value It appears that Labour have gone wrong right at the very beginning of the general election campaign by attempting to fight against an avalanche of heads of British Industry who are coming out and stating that the rise in NI is wrong as it is a tax on jobs.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Gordon Brown GOLD Sale Could Cost Labour the Election / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Shaily
The decision to sell Gold in 1999/2000 at rock bottom prices, was probably one of the worst mistakes by a supposedly sophisticated treasury, the Treasury team of UK. Mr Gordon Brown was the chancellor as he almost single handedly pummeeled his decision to sell Gold even with all the dissenting voice, almost giving an impression if there were other motives.