@measlewolf A lot of it conducted over the phone or possibly by app now, whereas in years gone by it was people with clipboards outside of polling booths
@measlewolf You actually need a far smaller sample than you’d think to draw out some very good conclusions from the overall population. But I think I did read somewhere exactly that, they will have a certain set of go to people who have provided their voting intention/result before
To all the @WestHam out there, Lop is a good manager but he’s also a bit of a snake. Hung around Birmingham after he left so maybe wasn’t just a cash cow but also Ballague does his dirty work in the press and don’t be surprised if he tries to use #WHUFC as another stepping stone
@realDrBrendan Westpac’s whole mortgage strategy has been originate to distribute for some time now, the more mortgages you have sitting on your own balance sheet the higher the risk charge and capital required to sit behind it. This way they take advantage of their oligopoly and take no risk
@Mendelpol@Oliver___Brett I met Monty in a bar in what was exchange square 2 years ago, he was by himself and then spent 2 hours chatting and drinking with us after we said hello. He was both charming, eccentric but also vulnerable, from my limited interactions, your assessment seems quite accurate
@Peston Robert, the pension funds were hedging their liabilities, exactly as they’d been instructed to. The real question is whether you can maintain an orderly market where there is only a relatively small number of holders who are all the same direction