This government is slowly managing to piss off too many people from all sides of the spectrum through its inaction on anything substantially positive. Things like mineral exploitation of our reserves will take decades and are going to get a lot of opposition. They’ve pissed of a *lot* of people with vindictive basic cuts like cutting the ACE program, the training allowance on the DPB, the primary remedial reading, etc. Those cost peanuts, but a lot of people hauled themselves out of the poverty trap with them.

I’m expecting that the unemployment on the benefit rate will continue to rise, and that really constrains their freedom of movement. I’m pretty sure that the political analysis will be starting to look back to the early 90′s at present.

This is all starting to feel like deja-vu to me.

It’s Vincent Price who is dead. I keep getting the two mixed up.

You decide, Pencarrow Head, Sand Fly Point,

(Sir) Roger Douglas will be rolling in his grave.

I’d be ecstatic is Labour led in the next poll. However I also wouldn’t believe it until I’d seen at least 3 polls from the same company that there was in fact a trend. I also would regard the actual values as being of little importance – ie not the actual result we’d see if an election was held during the polling period.

In this particular case, you’re looking at a number that went up by 6 points after having a decline in each successive poll from Morgan for the last 5 polls. It happened to coincide with a period when a lot if not a majority of the possible population would have been unable to be contacted by pollsters.

I’d personally expect that we’ll go back to a decline in the next couple of polls.

But there seemed to be a lot of posts in wingnut blogs….. Well maybe Camerons attempt to see if he could get contempt of court charges added probably pushed those up a bit.