The LibDems are very much predictable in the vicious and negative style of campaigning - the sort which led their former Leader Hereward Cooke, a decent man, to apologise to council for it (background here). Yet amazingly, despite poll after poll saying people don't like negative campaigning it seems to work. I wonder, however, if they can both be negative and mislead at the same time and sti...

Here's what Iain has to say, so far:So far, more than fifty blogs from all over the political spectrum have encouraged their readers to vote. They have voted for 443 different blogs. The top 100 is broken down as follows...Conservative blogs 20Right Wing blogs 9Libertarian blogs 6Labour blogs 16Left Wing blogs 13Lib Dem blogs 8Media blogs 11Non Aligned blogs 11Green blogs 2Humour blogs 1Plaid Cymr...

What a bolt from the blue! The Greek referendum promises to be a historic, whatever the outcome. Open Europe cleverly headline their piece Democracy Is Coming Home. As we know, a recent poll showed that 59% of Greeks think the new package is “negative” or “probably negative” for Greece. But the same poll also found that 72.5% of Greeks want to stay in the eurozone. So the f...

The Guardian is running the latest ICM poll today. The overall story is good for the Lib Dems – up three points to 19% (both Labour and the Tories are slightly down against the last ICM poll), and the Coalition remains stubbornly popular, still in the 55-60% range. But this is just one poll (and

FROM IAIN DALE More than 1,140 of you voted in the Total Politics blog poll and more than 75 blogs encouraged their readers to take part. This is not a scientific poll, and has never pretended to be, but because of the number of people taking part and the number of blogs promoting it, it is certainly more representative this year than in 2007 and 2006. The voting system used to compile this list w...

You will be relieved to hear that this is the final blogging list. More than 1,140 of you voted in the poll and more than 75 blogs encouraged their readers to take part. This is not a scientific poll, and has never pretended to be, but because of the number of people taking part and the number of blogs promoting it, it is certainly more representative this year than in 2007 and 2006. The voting sy...

This blog seems to contain far too much negative commentary. Perhaps this is because Labour has nothing positive to say now. The stream of abuse directed at my resignation post was so obnoxious it was funny. But it was sad to see members of this once great party reduced to such a level. I can confirm that debate and discussion in the Liberal Democrats is far more mature and civilised. Perhaps read...

It's a little disturbing that Labour, the third party in Israeli politics, is seeing a poll boost due to the Gaza bombings. Labour Leader Ehud Barack, Israel's Defence Minister in the coalition government, has seen a marked rise in his own personal popularity.

Huhne warns that public spending cuts will make the coalition even more unpopular next year, as an opinion poll showed support for the coalition party at just 12%

The combined force of Labour and the Liberal Democrats party would prove to be a strong force against the Conservative party in number of supporters. If they were to announce a coalition, or the creation of a new hybrid party - would you support their efforts? A just for fun poll to see what feelings are towards this kind of possibility if it ever came to it.