In recent polls (if we can trust those anymore..) the Labour party have been shown to be more popular than the Tories - despite the Tories’ election win. 

In fact, the Labour Party have come out best - the only party, along with the Greens, to get a positive score…

Good news for Labour? Perhaps not - the same study asked about preferences for the leader and chancellor, in which David Cameron got a net approval of 15 - not amazing, but better than Ed Miliband’s -32.  

Similarly, 41% percent of people considered George Obsorne ‘more capable’ with the economy compared to just 30% for Ed Balls. 

It looks like personality politics still reign on election day - a shame for the good and passionate but perhaps a bit funny looking like Ed. This also calls further into question how far newspapers should go with personal attacks on leaders - perhaps Murdoch really does call the election.

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Do they mean this one? Every Geordie’s favourite super-cheesy gay-bar, Powerhouse.

See you in there Saturday, boys.

In the run up to the election, UKIP were anything but universally popular in Farage’s would-be constituency of South Thanet. Pressure group Stand Up To UKIP were perhaps at the heart of the anti-UKIP movement, often staging demonstrations and handing out leaflets to the public. This apparently didn’t go unnoticed by Farage, who reportedly sent a spy into their ranks.. a spy who didn’t seem to last very long..

‘Edward Johnson’ infiltrated the pressure group - but not content with watching their actions, attempted to encourage vandalism and abuse, presumably in order to discredit the group. 

But, not convinced by ‘Edward’, campaigners googled the mobile number they were given - and found the Twitter and then LinkedIn account of one John Hutchins, an employee of Secura Associates hired by - you guessed it - UKIP.

UKIP have admitted to this, claiming that it was justified in order to ‘protect the safety and well being of a targeted individual.’ This should be no surprise - UKIP’s chairman in Scotland had as recently as December boasted about their ‘very good intelligence service.’

Criticisms abound that, though hiding behind the veneer of a legitimate party, UKIP still act like little more than a splinter group of the National Front. Bad week to be a racist…

Pro-tip: if you’re spying on an anti-UKIP group, perhaps don’t have a photograph of you standing next to the leader of UKIP. If you’re defeated by a quick google, your future probably doesn’t lie in espionage.

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