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Dave Attacks Gordon’s Borrowed Slogans
Dave touched on something today that (surprisingly) he hasn’t used before. Brown’s borrowing of an old NF/BNP slogan to blow a dog-whistle to Dagenham voters “Take the slogan the Prime Minister wheels...
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OLR Win 90% of Government Contracts
OLR has become the Halliburton of British politics. Whereas Dick Cheney’s old firm was suspiciously successful in winning war profiteering contracts, Gordon’s crony pollster Deborah Mattinson’s OLR...
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Northern Rock CEO Sold Millions in Shares Before Collapse
Adam Applegarth did pretty well out of Northern Rock shares in the year before it collapsed. He has trousered many millions over the years, allowing him to enjoy an Aston Martin with a Ferrari for his...
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Brown : "I Don’t Look at Polls"
Brown has just told Sky’s Adam Boulton that he doesn’t look at opinion polls. An absolutely blatant lie. He even has a personal pollster – Deborah Mattinson – who must now dread telling him the bad...
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Tories Call for an Inquiry into Balls’ Bung
The Tories are calling for a Civil Service inquiry into the circumstances surrounding a 2005 payment of nearly £100,000 to Ed Balls from the already under statutory investigation Smith Institute. The...
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Gordon’s Pollster Deborah Mattinson Slammed for Dodgy Polling
Guido has banged on for a long time about Deborah Mattinson’s dodgy polling. Her firm’s “free” polling for Gordon Brown’s Smith Institute seemed to correlate with their ability to win 90% of government...
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Quote of the Day
Deborah Mattinson, Gordon Brown’s former pollster, tweets… “A month on and when Radio 4 says ‘the PM’ I still have the wrong guy in mind. Help! I’m in denial…” Tagged: Deborah Mattinson
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Deborah Mattinson Says Guido Drove Gordon Mad
Deborah Mattinson was Gordon Brown’s personal pollster and part of the bunker / Smith Institute inner circle around Brown. In her new book ”Talking To A Brick Wall‘ she has revealed something that...
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Prize Competition: Explain Labour’s Record in a Tweet
Deborah Mattinson, formerly the Brown bunker’s favourite pollster*, was wailing last night to a Mirror hack and the evil Fabian’s Sunda Katawala that “I’m still worried ‘Labour wrecked economy’ is now...
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Tweet Competition Winner
Ever generous, Guido gave valuable blog space to assist Deborah Mattinson with her challenge to define Labour’s economic record with a Tweetable message. Amongst the usual dross there were a few...
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Has Bright Joined the Dark Side?
Guido has long respected the New Statesman’s Martin Bright as an investigative journalist, but his extended and continuing proximity to the Smith Institute seems to be compromising his objectivity. He...
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Slippery as a Silverfish
Dizzy got a nice scoop* yesterday. Basically Silverfish TV have bought up gordonbrown4leader.com and similar sites. So what? Well Gordon doesn’t officially have a campaign and when he does he will be...
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Sith Pollster Believed UnderProfessional Standards Investigation
As if Gordon’s Sith allies didn’t have enough problems with the Charity Commission investigation, it appears that the Market Research Standards Board is to investigate Opinion Leader Research, Gordon...
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How Much Does Gordon’s Pollster Charge for a 1-Day Seminar?
Guido has said it before and he’ll say it again, the way Gordon Brown’s pollster, Deborah Mattinson at Opinion Leader Research, gets contracts is not right. Hidden away in an announcement made quietly...
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Harman Was Backed by the Sith
Guido has only just found out that Harman was advised by Deborah Mattinson, the high-priestess of the Sith, Gordon’s personal pollster, Smith Institute board member and recipient of many juicy...
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Coincidence or Corruption?
Gordon’s pollster Deborah Mattinson sits on the board of Gordon’s think-tank, the Smith Institute. Her relationship with Gordon has been very profitable for her firm, OLR. According to today’s Sunday...
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Citizen’s Consultants
Organising “Citizen’s Juries” has made Gordon’s pollster, Deborah Mattinson, a lot of money over the years. Amazingly they have now become a key Gordon Brown government policy. Who, Guido wonders,...
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Green Groups Accuse OLR of PR Stitch-Up
According to the front page of the Guardian Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and the Green Alliance are claiming that the government is using Deborah Mattinson’s Opinion Leader Research to distort...
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Sith’s Deborah Mattinson is Advisor to Northern rock
Gordon Brown’s personal pollster, Deborah Mattinson, advises Northern Rock on corporate responsibility programmes. Presumably it was she who advised giving circa half-a-million quid to New Labour’s...
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