Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - One-third of Americans reject the idea of evolution and Republicans have grown more skeptical about it, according to a poll released on Monday.

Sixty percent of Americans say that "humans and other living things have evolved over time," the telephone survey by the Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project showed.

But 33 percent reject the idea of evolution, saying that "humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time," Pew said in a statement.

MailOnline - news,politics.. Saturday, Dec 28 2013 3AM

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An Updated look at European Parliament Voting Intention – Labour maintain their polling lead in 2013
December 26th, 2013
Survation conducted a poll for The Daily Star with fieldwork 21st-22nd of November who have published the Westminster voting intention aspect of that work today. As part of the requirements of our membership of the British Polling Council we are providing the data tables for the voting intention aspect of the survey.

What may be interesting is that as part of this poll, we also updated European Parliament election voting intention which had a separate likelihood to vote adjustment. This will likely be the last published UK EP election poll of 2013.

There have been strangely few EP election polls this year – despite huge interest in the results, usually with a media focus on UKIP “likely topping the poll”. Polling so far does not show UKIP yet poised to win at this stage (we believe the ComRes/Open Europe figures showing UKIP 4% ahead of Labour in May was due to something like a poll scripting error).

Our latest figures are as follows:

CON 24% LAB 32% LD 8% UKIP 25% GRE 6% Others 6%

These figures are not strictly comparable to our previous EP election poll as it did not include a separate likelihood to vote turnout weight.

Data tables for the voting intention part of this poll can be viewed here:

We hope you are having a Happy Christmas period and we look forward to what should be a very exciting political 2014.

All the best,

Damian Lyons Lowe.

Chief Exec, Survation.

- See more at: http://survation.com/2013/12/an-updated-look-at-european-parliament-voting-intention-labour-maintain-their-polling-lead-in-2013/#sthash.K8nT44nj.dpuf

No point in trying to engage H/S Max, as he's remains in his own little propaganda world.

goldfinger

You have finally found a poll that Edd Ball's comes top in , i know its very rare but don't go on posting it every day.

Stan

You and Fred know all about that. Ask comrade Fred to answer cynic's question. BTW do you bother to vote ? if yes do you approve of a person who doesn't vote , but hates the party who is in power but didn't do anything to stop them being elected

A poll has revealed Britons would rather share their Christmas Day with David Cameron than Ed Miliband.

In a scenario that would make it tricky to stick to the old adage to avoid talking about politics, religion or money around the dinner table, respondents picked out the prime minister as their favoured man from the leaders of the country’s main political parties

Worryingly for Mr Miliband however is that Mr Cameron came out as the favourite choice to run the country despite the Labour party being more popular overall.

MailOnline - news,politics.. Saturday, Dec 28 2013 3AM

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Denis Skinner ‏@BolsoverBeast 35s
What they don't tell you, one Iain Duncan-Smith does more damage to our well being and economy than a bus load of Bulgarians and Romanians.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2013/dec/30/ben-jennings-plans-charge-health-tourism

goldfinger

You have finally found a poll that Edd Ball's comes top in , i know its very rare but don't go on posting it every day.

Dennis Skinner is a clown , he as no answer's to today's problems just ranting at PMQ a class war outdated diatribe and his joke's are not has good as William Hague's

Alders think again.....LOOK HERE....... just out on twitter..........

Only one in 50 says economic recovery is making things better as living standards crisis continues
Dec 31, 2013 00:00 By Mark Ellis

According to a YouGov poll, just one in eight expect their pay to keep up with living costs and only one in five reckon their living standards will actually rise in 2014

George Osborne: Some services have been 'savagely hit' by the Chancellor's austerity cuts

Britain's skewed economic recovery has left hardly any ordinary workers better off.

In a new blow to the Tory-led Coalition, a YouGov poll shows most expect the living standards crisis to continue – with just one in 50 saying things are getting better.

Just one in eight expect their pay to keep up with living costs and only one in five reckon their living standards will actually rise in 2014.

More than half want services savagely hit by Chancellor Osborne’s “austerity” cuts restored as the economy grows.

Just 29% quizzed in the survey for the TUC wanted cutbacks retained as the economy grew.

In another key finding, the poll showed 58% of the 1,666 quizzed “expect gains of a recovery to go mainly to the types of people and parts of the country already doing well”.

The TUC blames the lack of a “feel-good factor” on the Government’s failure to deliver a growth strategy based on rebalancing the economy.

It warns too many of the new jobs being created combine the “three lows” - low skill, low productivity and low pay.

Frances O'Grady
Poll: Frances O'Grady says the findings are bad news for the Government

Frances O’Grady, TUC general secretary, said that the big political question in 2014 will be “whose growth?” and it reflects the big divide about the Britain of the future.

She explained: “Our poll is bad news for the Government . Voters do not expect it to spread the benefits of recovery fairly. Above all they do not share the Chancellor’s ambition to permanently shrink the state.

“By more than two to one they want services restored when the economy grows. Voters accepted austerity but now they are realising that what they thought were unpleasant side-effects, the Chancellor sees as a cure.

“Recovery seems to mean food banks, zero hours and pay cuts for the many; tax cuts and pay growth for the few at the top.”

She says we could go back to pre-crash times of housing bubbles, overmighty banks and inequality or enjoy a future of “high-skill, high-pay, high-productivity” that “shares prosperity.”

In a new blow to the Tory-led Coalition, a YouGov poll shows most expect the living standards crisis to continue – with just one in 50 saying things are getting better.


Hays and Alders in DENIAL.

ohhhhhhhhhhh dear.

Hays,

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"A poll has revealed Britons would rather share their Christmas Day with David Cameron than Ed Miliband."


Quite possible, that 4 out of the 5 who would like to share Christmas Day with Wavey Dave would have seen it as a possibility to poison him!

aldo - no, your eyes do not deceive you ......

fossy continues to post his usual repetitive ad nauseam nonsenses and of course - why on earth would you expect otherwise? - refuses to answer questions directed at him, specifically about francois hollande and the efficacy or otherwise of his left-socialist policies

sticky - survey for the TUC rather diminishes the credibility of the result .... imagine how TUC would have reacted had the survey concluded that the austerity measures were exactly what the country needed!

that said, it comes as no surprise that the overall feeling (forget the %) is that living standards are not improving ..... it is inevitable that this aspect will lag behind industrial (economic) recovery

honours list
i'm wrily amused that there has been no rant from the usual suspects about those so honoured and the elitist air surrounding them

Cyners what on earth are you talking about ?, its a YOUGOV poll.

The TUC have commented on it.

Obviously the Tories darent go near it.

unequivocally the survey was instructed and sponsored by TUC - it states so in black and white (well black anyway) - so my observation remains valid