Joining online polling panels would seem one obvious way in for the Russians.
GCHQ boasts of being able to manipulate online polls, but I assume they mean defeating the basic checks that some voodoo polls use (rate limiting, IP checks and so on), not filling panels with puppets. I wouldn't say it is impossible unless a pollster has some thorough verification, not that I think that's happening here.
Is there a link to this particular boast?
UNDERPASS: Change outcome of online polls (previously known as NUBILO).
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go, I wanna be sedated..... Nothing to do, no where to go oh, I wanna be sedated
Just get me to the airport, put me on a plane Hurry hurry hurry, before I go insane I can't control my fingers, I can't control my brain Oh no oh no oh no.....
Just had two e mails from CCHQ including one from Boris with lots of material to send out on social media
It has been non stop from them the last few days - is this the new way of targetting the messages
But only if it gets sent out. I have had all the same guff and whilst I am very happy to leaflet and door-knock for the Conservative Party, no way in Hell am I going to post that stuff on my social media!
My FB feed is filled with pro-Labour posts. Some of it fairly ridiculous. There's one LD, and he last Tory thing was a few days ago.
If May gets a landslide there's going to be some very pi**ed off people.
2 amusing anecdotal stories that mean feck all but made me laugh
Facebook post going around Colchester that we got from a Lib Dem activist / councillor - allegedly Labour are ahead in this region - snigger - If true Jezza on for a landslide
Teacher at my sons school (female) tells my 14 year old sons class that Corbyn is "utterly crap"
Strangely enough, parents of pupils at Ydoethur's school are reporting a similar phenomenon. Are there any in between?
Across the region, 34% of people said they are planning to vote Labour later this week, compared to 25% who said that was their planned vote at the start of the election campaign. The proportion of respondents backing the Tories is at 26%, compared to 32% backing the party at the start of the campaign.
David Herdson has confirmed to me that he did post that comment at 8.43pm
Is he OK? Really didn't sound like him.
No, he's pissed off. In fact, he's fuming.
He might be wrong as well but the response on the doorstep this evening was not healthy (from a Con viewpoint). Maybe I was just unlucky with who I spoke to (or who spoke to me) but it's a week since I've done serious canvassing as I've been delivering for most of the interim and the mood was definitely changed.
Sorry for posting that and then buggering off. Dinner and baby duties.
2 amusing anecdotal stories that mean feck all but made me laugh
Facebook post going around Colchester that we got from a Lib Dem activist / councillor - allegedly Labour are ahead in this region - snigger - If true Jezza on for a landslide
Teacher at my sons school (female) tells my 14 year old sons class that Corbyn is "utterly crap"
Strangely enough, parents of pupils at Ydoethur's school are reporting a similar phenomenon. Are there any in between?
You will withdraw that defamatory remark. I do not swear in front of the children nor do I discuss my political views with them.
2 amusing anecdotal stories that mean feck all but made me laugh
Facebook post going around Colchester that we got from a Lib Dem activist / councillor - allegedly Labour are ahead in this region - snigger - If true Jezza on for a landslide
Teacher at my sons school (female) tells my 14 year old sons class that Corbyn is "utterly crap"
Strangely enough, parents of pupils at Ydoethur's school are reporting a similar phenomenon. Are there any in between?
You will withdraw that defamatory remark. I do not swear in front of the children nor do I discuss my political views with them.
OK. But they would benefit from your political views.
Oh, and if the Tories do win a clear majority I predict riots on friday night. And quite a few of them I'm afraid.
Me too. McDonnell is on record as calling the rioters 'the best of our movement' and advocating street politics rather than the parliamentary sort, the latter being inefficient and of limited value in his view.
David Herdson has confirmed to me that he did post that comment at 8.43pm
Is he OK? Really didn't sound like him.
No, he's pissed off. In fact, he's fuming.
He might be wrong as well but the response on the doorstep this evening was not healthy (from a Con viewpoint). Maybe I was just unlucky with who I spoke to (or who spoke to me) but it's a week since I've done serious canvassing as I've been delivering for most of the interim and the mood was definitely changed.
Sorry for posting that and then buggering off. Dinner and baby duties.
It does seem that David has taken an uncharacteristic position based on just one evening's canvassing ..... I for one am surprised.
2 amusing anecdotal stories that mean feck all but made me laugh
Facebook post going around Colchester that we got from a Lib Dem activist / councillor - allegedly Labour are ahead in this region - snigger - If true Jezza on for a landslide
Teacher at my sons school (female) tells my 14 year old sons class that Corbyn is "utterly crap"
Strangely enough, parents of pupils at Ydoethur's school are reporting a similar phenomenon. Are there any in between?
You will withdraw that defamatory remark. I do not swear in front of the children nor do I discuss my political views with them.
OK. But they would benefit from your political views.
Who do you think I am, a Corbynista? I deal in facts, not opinions. It is for them to decide for themselves. You have effectively accused me of professional misconduct (and incidentally there is a school in Tamworth whose head of History should be sacked for such professional misconduct throughout the last year by forcing pro-Corbyn propaganda on them) and you have still not apologised. Even if you meant it as a joke it was a seriously unfunny one.
2 amusing anecdotal stories that mean feck all but made me laugh
Facebook post going around Colchester that we got from a Lib Dem activist / councillor - allegedly Labour are ahead in this region - snigger - If true Jezza on for a landslide
Teacher at my sons school (female) tells my 14 year old sons class that Corbyn is "utterly crap"
Strangely enough, parents of pupils at Ydoethur's school are reporting a similar phenomenon. Are there any in between?
You will withdraw that defamatory remark. I do not swear in front of the children nor do I discuss my political views with them.
OK. But they would benefit from your political views.
Who do you think I am, a Corbynista? I deal in facts, not opinions. It is for them to decide for themselves. You have effectively accused me of professional misconduct (and incidentally there is a school in Tamworth whose head of History should be sacked for such professional misconduct throughout the last year by forcing pro-Corbyn propaganda on them) and you have still not apologised. Even if you meant it as a joke it was a seriously unfunny one.
I apologise. It was intended as a light-hearted, indirect compliment. Clearly in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Going for the 'he's clueless' approach rather than 'he's a terrorist(apologist)' approach I see (yes they mention it, but it's one of many points, and the image is about him being a fool, not dangerous).
Terrible headline though. They can do better.
Shades of 1997 when CCHQ could not quite decide how to attack Tony Blair: demon eyes or Bambi.
Should of gone for Bambi in 1997 and demon eyes in 2005.
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Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go,
I wanna be sedated.....
Nothing to do, no where to go oh,
I wanna be sedated
Just get me to the airport, put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry, before I go insane
I can't control my fingers, I can't control my brain
Oh no oh no oh no.....
If May gets a landslide there's going to be some very pi**ed off people.
Ok - it leads to this
http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/15331840.REVEALED__Survey_shows_Labour_may_have_won_enough_support_to_overtake_Conservatives_in_our_region/
Across the region, 34% of people said they are planning to vote Labour later this week, compared to 25% who said that was their planned vote at the start of the election campaign. The proportion of respondents backing the Tories is at 26%, compared to 32% backing the party at the start of the campaign.
I call bollocks
NorthEast
Cons 44
Lab 41
LD 9
Swing 12.5% Labour to Cons
NorthWest
Cons 42
Lab 45
LD 6
Swing 5.5% Labour to Cons
Yorkshire and Humber
Cons 46
Lab 41
LD 7
Swing 5.5% Labour to Cons
West Midlands
Cons 46
Lab 34
LD 10
Swing 1.5% Labour to Cons
East Midlands
Cons 51
Lab 35
LD 3
Swing 2% Labour to Cons
Wales
Cons 40
Lab 38
LD 5
Swing 6% Labour to Cons
East
Cons 51
Lab 30
LD 12
Swing 3% Cons to Labour
London
Cons 42
Lab 41
LD 11
Swing 4.5% Labour to Cons
South East
Cons 47
Lab 29
LD 13
Swing 7.5% Cons to Labour
South West
Cons 49
Lab 29
LD 12
Swing 4.5% Cons to Labour
Scotland
Cons 27
Lab 16
SNP 45
LD 9
Swing 8.5% SNP to Tory
http://www.comresglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Independent_FINAL-VI-and-Political-Poll_7th-June-2017_130392.pdf
He might be wrong as well but the response on the doorstep this evening was not healthy (from a Con viewpoint). Maybe I was just unlucky with who I spoke to (or who spoke to me) but it's a week since I've done serious canvassing as I've been delivering for most of the interim and the mood was definitely changed.
Sorry for posting that and then buggering off. Dinner and baby duties.
I think the possibility of a conservative landslide, whilst unlikely, is seriously underestimated and these odds are good value.
https://twitter.com/stephentall/status/872555460930535425
Former FBI director James Comey has just found a hammer and a nail.
22 Lib Dem
10 Tory
2 Labour
2 Green
1 Kipper
Leaflets through their door in the last 10 days.