British Parents May be Prosecuted for Protesting 'Gay Week' in Children's School

The children are only 10 and 9 years old...

Britain Works Hard to Crush Free Speech

Britain's politicians care so much about constitutional protections for human rights that they have two sets of them--the centuries-old traditions laid out by parliament and precedent and the newfangled European Convention on Human Rights, written into British law in 1998. Neither of these stopped Britain from becoming the first European Union country to bar an elected European legislator from its territory for his political opinions on February 12.
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Dutch Anti-Terrorist Kicked Out of Politically Correct Britain

Britain: Tories Increase Lead

If there were a general election tomorrow, which party would you vote for?

	Jan. 16	Jan. 8	Dec. 18
Conservative	45%	41%	42%
Labour	32%	34%	35%
Liberal Democrats	13%	15%	14%
Other	10%	10%	9%

Source: YouGov
Methodology: Online interviews with 2,000 British voters, conducted on Jan. 15 and Jan. 16, 2009. No margin of error was provided.

British Against Euro

Would you vote in favour or against Britain joining the euro if it were put to a referendum?

In favour	23%
Against	71%
Not sure	6%

Source: ICM Research / BBC Radio
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,000 British adults, conducted from Dec. 19 to Dec. 21, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

UK: Conservatives Lead by 7

If there were a general election tomorrow, which party would you vote for?

	Dec. 18	Dec. 12	Nov. 25
Conservative	42%	41%	40%
Labour	35%	35%	36%
Liberal Democrats	14%	15%	14%
Other	9%	10%	10%

Source: YouGov
Methodology: Online interviews with 2,241 British voters, conducted from Dec. 16 to Dec. 18, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

Britain: Conservatives Lead by 11

If there were a general election tomorrow, which party would you vote for?

	Nov. 28	Nov. 16	Oct. 2008
Conservative	43%	40%	45%
Labour	32%	37%	30%
Liberal Democrats	15%	12%	14%
Other	10%	11%	11%

Source: Ipsos MORI / The Observer
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,002 British adults, conducted on Nov. 27 and Nov. 28, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

Britain: Conservatives Lead by 11

If there were to be a general election tomorrow, which party do you think you would vote for?

	Nov. 20	Nov. 6	Oct. 19
Conservative	42%	43%	42%
Labour	31%	30%	30%
Liberal Democrat	19%	18%	21%
Other	8%	9%	7%

Source: ICM Research / Sunday Mirror
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,010 British adults, conducted on Nov. 19 and Nov. 20, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

Britain: Conservatives Have 12 pt Lead

If there were to be a general election tomorrow, which party do you think you would vote for?

	Oct. 19	Oct. 2	Aug. 17
Conservative	42%	42%	44%
Labour	30%	30%	29%
Liberal Democrat	21%	17%	19%
Other	7%	11%	9%

Source: ICM Research / The Guardian
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,007 British adults, conducted from Oct. 17 to Oct. 19, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

Conservatives Increase Lead in UK

If there were a general election tomorrow, which party would you vote for?

	Oct. 3	Sept. 24	Sept. 19
Conservative	45%	41%	44%
Labour	31%	31%	24%
Liberal Democrats	15%	16%	20%
Other	9%	12%	12%

Source: YouGov / Daily Telegraph
Methodology: Online interviews with 2,048 British voters, conducted from Oct. 1 to Oct. 3, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

Financial War Between Iceland & Britain

'We are freezing the assets of Icelandic companies in the UK where we can. We will take further action against Icelandic authorities wherever necessary to recover the money.'

Daily Mail

Half of the British Want Gordon Brown to Quit

In your view, should Gordon Brown stay on as prime minister or should the Labour Party replace him with someone else?

	Sept. 24	Sept. 19
Mr. Brown should stay on	39%	29%
He should be replaced	49%	54%
Don’t know	12%	17%

Who would make the best prime minister?

	Sept. 2008	Aug. 2008
David Cameron	32%	37%
Gordon Brown	24%	19%
Nick Clegg	7%	6%
Don’t know	37%	37%

Source: YouGov / The Sun
Methodology: Online interviews with 1,536 British voters, conducted on Sept. 23 and Sept. 24, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

UK: Conservatives Lead by 12

However, this is down a bit from the last poll.

What party would you vote for in the next general election?

	Sept. 18	Sept. 4	Aug. 21
Conservative	39%	44%	46%
Labour	27%	25%	25%
Liberal Democrat	21%	17%	16%
Other	13%	14%	13%

Source: Communicate Research / The Independent
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,010 British adults, conducted on Sept. 17 and Sept. 18, 2008. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

British Fear Russia

From what you know about events in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia in recent days, do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

	Agree	Disagree	Neither	Unsure
Gordon Brown and other Western leaders should have done more to help the Georgians	32%	27%	15%	26%
Britain and other Western governments were caught napping by Russia’s actions in Georgia	57%	11%	9%	23%
Russia is trying to re-create the old, cold war Soviet Union	37%	24%	9%	30%
The West should fear the military power of Russia	48%	24%	11%	17%

Source: YouGov
Methodology: Online interviews with 1,745 British voters, conducted on Aug. 14 and Aug. 15, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

British Blame Government for High Oil Prices

Which of the following do you think is primarily responsible for the current high price of fuel? (Two answers allowed)

The government	45%
Oil producing countries	22%
Oil companies	20%
Stock market traders	11%
Consumers	2%
Petrol stations	1%
None of these	2%
Don’t know	4%

Source: ICM Research
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,021 British voters, conducted on Jul. 23 and Jul. 24, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

Britain: Conservatives Have 22 pt Lead

What party would you vote for in the next general election?

	Jul. 23	Jul. 17	Jun 26
Conservative	46%	45%	46%
Labour	24%	24%	25%
Liberal Democrat	18%	16%	18%
Other	10%	15%	9%

Source: Communicate Research / The Independent
Methodology: Interviews with 1,021 British adults, conducted on Jul. 22 and Jul. 23, 2008. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

Britain: Conservatives Enjoy 21 pt Lead

What party would you vote for in the next general election?

	Jul. 17	Jun 26	Jun. 12
Conservative	45%	46%	44%
Labour	24%	25%	26%
Liberal Democrat	16%	18%	17%
Other	15%	9%	13%

Source: Communicate Research / The Independent
Methodology: Interviews with 1,016 British adults, conducted on Jul. 16 and Jul. 17, 2008. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

British Believe EVERYTHING Worse Under Gordon Brown

It is now just over a year since Gordon Brown took over as prime minister from Tony Blair. Do you think that the following things have changed for the better, changed for the worse, or not really changed at all, compared with how they were before Gordon Brown became prime minister?

	Better	Worse	No change
The state of the economy	3%	82%	12%
The situation in Iraq	11%	33%	51%
The National Health Service	12%	26%	59%
Standards in schools	11%	23%	51%
Relations with America	8%	21%	62%
Standards in public life	4%	56%	36%
Tackling crime and anti-social behaviour	6%	57%	35%
The level of taxes	4%	69%	24%

Source: Populus / The Times
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,507 British adults, conducted from Jul. 4 to Jul. 6, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

Britain: Conservatives Lead by 13

If the general election was tomorrow, which party would you vote for?

	Jul. 6	Jun. 8	May 4
Conservative	41%	45%	40%
Labour	28%	25%	29%
Liberal Democrats	19%	20%	19%
Other	12%	10%	12%

Source: Populus / The Times
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,507 British adults, conducted from Jul. 4 to Jul. 6, 2008. No margin of error was provided.

Helen Mirren in a Bikini!

Woohoo! Not bad for 63.