Welsh Labour’s Sweet Spot

Posted on 28 February 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  The BBC are now publishing findings from their annual political poll (always done around about St David’s Day). The survey was conducted by ICM via telephone; results are being released by the BBC over the next few days. One interesting feature of the poll is that, for the first time since the last King
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Council Reform: as if it wasn’t difficult enough…

Posted on 26 February 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  Readers of the Blog will doubtless be familiar with the main elements of the recent Williams Commission report, and the debates about local council reform that the report has prompted. As various people have commented, local government reform is a potentially difficult issue for the Labour party. As the governing party in the Assembly,
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Ernie Wise and Welsh Politics

Posted on 24 February 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  The memoirs of Barry Cryer at one point recall his experiences co-writing a Morecambe and Wise TV special, at the height of the legendary duo’s popularity (when their Christmas show was typically watched by more than half the UK’s population.) This particular show was a rare flop – so Cryer and fellow writer John
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Wales Political Barometer, new poll!

Posted on 17 February 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

The latest results from the second Welsh Political Barometer poll have now been released! You can find the main results of the poll here; and a slightly lengthier discussion of the voting intention figures by me, on the ITV Wales website here. Much more later in the week! Up-date, 19/02/14: The detailed cross-tabs of the
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Constitutional Reform, Irish Style

Posted on 10 February 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  One common frustration of political debate and commentary in the UK is its often highly insular nature. Relevant experience from elsewhere in the world, even on many occasions the experiences of near neighbours, seem to be almost wilfully ignored. Indeed, we are not even that good at learning lessons from within our own country!
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1859 and all that

Posted on 4 February 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

My friends and colleagues Philip Cowley (University of Nottingham) and Rob Ford (University of Manchester; and definitely NOT the Mayor of Toronto) are putting together a book comprised of short articles by various election experts, to be published in the lead-up to the next UK general election. The basic idea is to explore major features
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