Martin Boon

“Battle hardened veteran of the polling industry”.

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

Your app today @SW_Help is brilliant. Payment failed three times so I gave up. Then I receive three emails confirming payment in one go. So I e paid three times for my ticket.

[Tom Ough @tomough]

Nicholas Boys Smith has done as much as any living Englishman to make our towns and cities beautiful. We talked about:
- The importance of local stone to the cities of the future, even those that are offworld or on Antarctica
- The Death Star as the apotheosis of functionalist modernism
- Architecture schools becoming so hostile to traditional tastes that they threw plaster casts, previously used fror sketching, in the skip
- Why the restoration of the Palace of Westminster is to cost £39bn
- NBS' co-chairing of an architectural beauty commission with a dying Roger Scruton

[Deltapoll @DeltapollUK]

Reform UK currently lead by 8 points, but when asking about a hypothetical Burnham leadership, Labour pull ahead of Reform to lead by 1 point.
Lab 28% (+8)
Reform 27% (-1)
Con 15% (-2)
Green 10% (-3)
Lib Dem 9% (-2)
Fieldwork: 15th - 18th May 2026
Sample: 1,921 GB adults

[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

Delighted & proud that our work on the Trams Taskforce with @BritainRemade & @CBTransport is bearing fruit & that my marvellous & wise colleague @djjmilner has been appointed the new Mass Transit Taskforce by @Heidi_Labour

[Deltapoll @DeltapollUK]

Reform lead by 8 points in our latest poll for the Mirror
Con 19%
Lab 21%
Lib Dem 9%
Reform 29%
Green 12%
Other 10%
Fieldwork: 26th April to 1st May 2026
Sample: 3,353 GB adults

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

Hi @ryanair i have to use your verification app as extraordinarily booking on your app via Apple Pay is deemed 2 to be a 3rd party purchase.

Your app does not work - i have taken a photo of my card 50 times and it rejects it for blur etc when none is present. Suggestions?

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

@createstreets Incredible. I thought it impossible to disagree with @createstreets on anything, but here we are with the cute dog in the office thing.

[Bombe @Bombeplatform]

We’ve had a lot of interest in our pioneering election model last few weeks.

Thank you.

The most important point to stress is that this is based on party support and not candidates.

We will be updating the model on the 15th April with the candidate list, to simulate the election more accurately.

Our model is a powerful machine learning model that updates and is not a static MRP model. It’s powered by our Results Based Prediction by GBRM tech.

We are not claiming it is 100 percent accurate - we know it’s wrong and why it’s wrong in places - but we are confident the model is at least 80 percent accurate against real world by-election results.

If you want more info or to purchase a license to our election service you can do so here:

https://t.co/sbjACZUH5X

[Bombe @Bombeplatform]

Very pleased that our pioneering model has been featured in the Guardian today.

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

@gilescoren @Perth1969 @TheMiddleStump Sadly most bodily parts no longer function well enough to permit it, but I would have liked to have kept wicket to you.

[createstreets @createstreets]

Let's make the future better than the past. Do get in touch if you would like us to help you create Gentle Density new places and steward old ones to be happier, healthier, more prosperous and more beautiful...

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

@gilescoren @Perth1969 @TheMiddleStump Avid reader of your work but I’ll respectfully disagree with you on this one. I love cricket in all its forms. Neither the OP nor you need watch it if it offends your eyes, and the idea it isn’t exciting is just mad to me.

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

@gilescoren @Perth1969 @TheMiddleStump You must have missed the Bumrah part of yesterday.

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

Highly educated people calling others ‘stupid’ is about the worst look imaginable.

[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

Only if they're stupid. Student loans are such a good deal that any sane rich person has their kids take the maximum amount they're eligible for.

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

This is completely right. Having conducted focus groups in Croydon - about something else - the despair and despondency over how development (and non-development) has wrecked the nature of the borough was the main takeaway.

[createstreets @createstreets]

Yes but no.
👍Croydon’s clear rules DID lead to a doubling of small site development by de-risking planning (v good)
👎BUT by having no rules on popular design the changed policies were unpopular locally, led to some real horrors & meant that NIMBYs were fundamentally correct in their complaints that the suburb was losing its nature. The policy was reversed after 3 years, indeed we understand the policy helped lead to the defeat of the Labour Council against the London-wide political swing.

Any policy, which is that unpopular & politically unsustainable is clearly not working. One of the officials responsible for the scheme (in our hearing at a public meeting) was openly dismissive of public design preferences. Whoops!

Far better is to create a sustainable policy. Fortunately, this is possible. Here’s how …

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

143 sample size. Assuming everything else is equal, that a margin of error of +/-8%.

The lead on this poll is 3%.

Has political polling really come to this?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The first by-election poll from Gorton and Denton shows Reform UK winning the seat

➡️ REF - 30%
🔴 LAB - 27%
🟢 GRN - 17%
🔵 CON - 6%
🔶 LD - 2%

Don't knows - 18%

Via @FindoutnowUK, 143 sample size, January 26-27

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

Goodness me. The politics of this is shambolic. I can’t quite believe they are doing this.

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

Quite a big correction by the OBR here.
Reeves has nuked schools budget, but somehow forgot to mention it.

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

Something quite nauseous about a leader immediately throwing a minion under the bus.

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

Pollster here with some experience of such matters. OBR needs to check their time zone on auto publishing to the website. 😂

[Martin Boon @martinboon]

I had no idea @DeltapollUK work was being used in this way, but I absolutely love that it is.

Another magnificent thread/work from @createstreets @boys_nicholas

[createstreets @createstreets]

For years, critics mocked King’s insistence that buildings should be humane with legible streets, rhythm, depth & materials encouraging care, not contempt. New study co-authored by our founder @boys_nicholas with Prof Nikos Salingaros put the common-sense view to a simple test..