Tweetminster Daily - February 8 2010

The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around the main parties. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data.

Issue 20 - 08/02/2010 - 17:00

Conservatives

Volume of stories & conversations: 285

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Telegraph - The Conservatives continue to emphasise a new ‘special relationship’ with India
2. Evening Standard - Petition power
3. Independent - Clegg hints Tories may make better coalition partner
4. Public Service - Tories are ‘back-pedalling on localism’
5. Independent Minds - Amol Rajan: The silence of British conservatives on Sarah Palin

Party sentiment score: -5 (Variation in the past 24 hours: -2)
Leader sentiment score: +4 (Variation in the past 24 hours: +4)

Labour

Volume of stories & conversations: 179

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Conservative Home - Gordon Brown’s electoral reforms would increase Labour’s advantage
2. House of Twits - Can Labour win back women voters?
3. Guardian - Gordon Brown declares: ‘Labour can still win: I’m absolutely sure of it’
4. Guardian - Gordon Brown attacks ‘scandal’ of Lord Ashcroft donations
5. The Way We Are - Shouldn’t Gordon Brown be much more unpopular than this?

Party sentiment score: -5 (24 hour variation: -2)
Leader sentiment score: +8 (24 hour variation: +8)

Liberal Democrats

Volume of stories & conversations: 69

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Electoral Calculus
2. Spectator - Clegg must resist Brown’s sweet nothings
3. BBC News - Paramedic claims Lib Dem AM Mick Bates assaulted him
4. David Cornock - Lib Dems turn drama into a story
5. Independent - Clegg hints Tories may make better coalition partner

Party sentiment score: +1 (24 hour variation: -8)
Leader sentiment score: +23 (24 hour variation: +23)

New MPs/PPCs on Twitter:

@Jeremy_Hunt - Conservative MP for South West Surrey

@KevinSWard - Liberal Democrat PPC for Glasgow East

@Freeman_George - Conservative PPC for Mid Norfolk

@greglovelluk Labour PPC for Chippenham (also standing in Chippenham: @duncanhames and @wilfred4change)

@denishealy Lib Dem PPC for Hull North (also standing in Hull North: @dianajohnsonmp)

Posted at Mon, Feb 8th 2010, 17:37
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Tweetminster Daily - February 5 2010

The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around the main parties. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data.

Issue 19 - 05/02/2010 - 18:00

Conservatives

Volume of stories & conversations: 117

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. BBC News - Chris Grayling use of crime statistics ‘mislead’ public
2. Telegraph - David Cameron’s Health Supremo has some embarrassing questions to answer
3. Guardian - David Cameron hosted freemasons event at Westminster
4. Telegraph - Tories should stop opposing cuts
5. The Economist - How broken is Britain?

Party sentiment score: +2 (Variation in the past 24 hours: +2)
Leader sentiment score: 0 (Variation in the past 24 hours: +1)

Labour

Volume of stories & conversations: 120

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Brand Republic - Labour follows Tory plan to cut adspend
2. Guardian - Crime figures row over ‘damaging, misleading’ Tory leaflets
3. Guardian - MPs claim £95.6m in expenses for 2008-09
4. Conservatives News - Labour’s legacy of debt
5. Independent - Two Labour gains and UKIP second place surge

Party sentiment score: +3 (24 hour variation: -4)
Leader sentiment score: +12 (24 hour variation: +12)

Liberal Democrats

Volume of stories & conversations: 34

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. BBC News - Lib Dem’s Nick Clegg pledges more police on beat
2. Telegraph - MPs’ expenses: Brown, Cameron and Clegg ordered to repay money
3. Nick Clegg - Liberal Democrats launch General Election plans on policing
4. Independent - Steve Richards: Liberal Democrats’ hour has come round at last
5. BBC News - Lib Dems promise ‘fairness’ for taxpayers and schools

Party sentiment score: +22 (24 hour variation: +8)
Leader sentiment score: 0 (24 hour variation: NC)

New MPs/PPCs on Twitter:

@TMcNMP (Tony McNulty) - Labour MP for Harrow East

Posted at Fri, Feb 5th 2010, 19:45
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Who wants to represent you?

We’ve just released a new feature on Tweetminster - you can now search by constituency or post code and find out if your MP or PPC is using Twitter.

To use the tool, simply go to our homepage and scroll down - you’ll find the Find Your MP/PPC module to your right.

Posted at Fri, Feb 5th 2010, 17:07
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Tweetminster Daily - February 4 2010

The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around the main parties. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data.

Issue 18 - 4/02/2010 - 16:30 - Special focus on the Legg Report and MP Expenses

Volume of stories & conversations: 174
Sentiment score: -30

Total claimed by MPs in expenses 2008-2009: £95,576,589

Total claimed by Conservative MPs: £27.3M
Average claimed by Conservative MPs: £139,286

Total claimed by Labour MPs: £53.1M
Average claimed by Labour MPs: £151,282

Total claimed by Liberal Democrat MPs: £9.95M
Average claimed by Liberal Democrat MPs: £157,937

Total to be paid back by 392 MPs: £1.12M
Update - party data on amounts to be paid backThanks @MarkReckons

Source: Guardian Data Blog

Most shared links:

1. The Legg Report (pdf)
2. Legg probe: love cheat Iris Robinson claimed £1,600 for bed on expenses
3. Sky
4. Cost of Legg review is greater than all repayments combined
5. Guardian Live Blog

Posted at Thu, Feb 4th 2010, 17:30
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