Monday, November 08, 2004

The academics got it wrong as well...

...but when you check out their funding and connections it is all part of the great deception and political con trick. We had Professor Jefferey sussed last year. BBC are complicit in the deception. Thing is tho' the public are streets ahead of the game and the chances of anything other than the same landslide in a referendum on the European Constitution are nil.
More on that score shortly. Meanwhile...
Post below from Peter.

" A major academic study was published on 2nd July 2003 finding that all English regions could win a referendum on elected regional government. The study completed by Pro. Charlie Jeffery, Director of ERSC's Devolution and Constitutional Change programme anayses the reponses to the Government's soundings process conducted to assess the level of interest in holding referendums in the regions.Speaking on behalf of the Campaign for the English Regions Chair George Morran said that this news is a terrific boost for the Campaign. The report finds that the majority of people that intend to vote in the three northern referendums will vote Yes." ,,, and more.

I have quickly gone through Jeffery's report and find that it is not really as Morran would have it. Whilst it found that there was interest across the country in having referendums, it cautiously notes that this fact does not express voting intentions. Nevertheless of various polls mentioned all of them had more in favour than against elected assemblies.
But mostly less than 50% said they'd vote Yes.
Fewer said they'd vote no.
The rest were undecided.
Interestingly the BBC poll was the exception and had 73% in favour. The BBC needs to be hammered on this.Jeffery was not able to equate the ODPM's actions to the soundings. He seems to have sensed a reluctance to look too closely at them. He recognised that the Yes vote was vulnerable to "Talking Shop" etc arguments. He opined that the turn out was likely to be low.Undoubtedly Jeffery will have been disappointed in the NE result.
He is heavily wrapped up in euroconnections.One of the questions now is: will UNISON, Rowntree, Wainwright & Co continue to fund CFER? The LibDem regionalists are now talking of a Northern "Convention" to figure out the way forward.
Peter

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The lib/Dem regionalists are merely searching for a way to keep Kennedy and others of that ilk, voting on English affairs. Don't they know the game is up?

Anonymous said...

Yes, I remember Kennedy on 'Question Time', saying that he would continue to vote on English-only matters until there was English 'devolution'. I even wrote to the Daily Torygraph about it, but at that time they saw no political mileage in it and they weren't interested.

Anonymous said...

Prescott may be an idiot, but whatever we think of Blair, he's one smart political mover. Never once does he end up with egg on his face. He is already moving the blocks around for the constitution vote.

Look at the aftermath of this vote, he's not even took a scratch, but he'll be a harder nut to crack over the constitution, if he's still here of course.

He is cleverly putting off our constitution vote for what I believe is two good reasons for him personally.

1. If another country votes against the constitution, then he's free, we'll not have to vote.

2. If we are delayed until last and all the others vote "Yes" to the constitution, then Blair will lay on the charm thicker than dripping on uncut bread, you know what it'll be like, they'll throw the whole machine at it.

Just my view, but Blair is positioning himself already.
How do we force such a man to bring the vote forward?

Anonymous said...

Oh no, the later the referendum happens the better - provided that we make good use of the time. But with the constraints (general election, six months when UK will be holding EU presidency, but a two year deadline for ratification) some say it must be spring 2006.

Anonymous said...

Would be nice ( or perhaps not ) to know what the Bilderbergers are doing to this...

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