{"id":881,"date":"2010-03-21T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=881"},"modified":"2010-03-21T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T15:17:10","slug":"881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Latest Polls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There seems to be something of a stalemate. Labour holds \u00a0its own in the low thirties.\u00a0The Tories\u00a0 in the upper thirties are ahead, but not far enough to break clear and win a majority. The average position is very similar to the beginning of March. It looks as if noises off,\u00a0 Ashcroft, Unite etc, can have a short blip effect, but have little lasting impact. There is still a feeling around that nobody is sure what the Tories would actually do if they won. Few people trust Labour to tell the whole truth in next week&#8217;s Budget.<\/p>\n<p>This makes one set of figures rather interesting. In job approval ratings, Brown is at -28, Cameron is at +10, but, and this could a big but and get bigger, Nick Clegg is at + 20. Coming on top of a report that Vince Cable has had a briefing with the Treasury mandarins about his economic policy, it is clear that a Hung Parliament is being prepared for. It may very well be that Nick and Vince\u00a0 will have a bigger part to play than people expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest Polls There seems to be something of a stalemate. Labour holds \u00a0its own in the low thirties.\u00a0The Tories\u00a0 in the upper thirties are ahead, but not far enough to break clear and win a majority. The average position is very similar to the beginning of March. It looks as if noises off,\u00a0 Ashcroft, Unite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}