Wednesday, January 02, 2008

End of Year Awards: Think Tank/Campaigner/ Pressure Group

Here's the penultimate tranche of results from the End of Year Awards poll which 2,300 of you took part in...

POLITICAL COMMUNICATOR OF 2007

1. David Cameron 51%
2. Alex Salmond 28%
3. Shami Chakrabarti 13%
4. Nick Clegg 4%
5. Alan Johnson 4%

POLITICAL CAMPAIGNER OF 2007

1. Shami Chakrabarti 35%
2. Angus MacNeil 25%
3. Norman Baker MP 15%
4. Peter Tatchell 11%
5. Matthew Elliott 6%
6. Rachel North 5%
7. Adam Price MP 3%

POLITICAL SPEECH OF 2007

1. Cameron's Blackpool speech 55%
2. Tony Blair's Farewell at Sedgefield 17%
3. William Hague on Wilberforce 15%
4. George Osborne's Conference Speech 13%

PRESSURE GROUP OF 2007

1. NO2ID 21%
2. Liberty 20%
3. Taxpayers' Alliance 17%
4. Migration Watch 13%
5. I Want a Referendum 12%
6. Electoral Reform Society 7%
7. Centre for Social Justice 6%
8. Stonewall 4%

THINK TANK OF 2007

1. Centre for Social Justice 21%
2. Policy Exchange 15%
3. IPPR 14%
4. Centre for Policy Studies 12%
5. Smith Institute 9%
6. Open Europe 8%
7. Reform 6%
8. Centre Forum 5%
Others 10%

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Centre for Social Justice 6%

That's one reason why IDS is not Sir IDS.

Anonymous said...

There is an interesting take on this at TheBlog. Because groups like No2ID came top of the poll, they are wondering if the liberal vote is shifting to the Tories. This would be a big threat to Labour because they depend on liberal middle class votes.