The Sun newspaper isn’t a friend of the Lib Dems. So they will be shocked that their latest opinion poll puts the Lib Dems clearly in the lead:
What does this mean in Essex?
Well if you use these figures on a election prediction website like this one and then assume we can get 3 percent of Labour supporters to vote for us tactically, we get:
– Stephen Robinson winning for us in Chelmsford.
– Peter Welch only 1,900 votes behind in Southend West against David Amess!
And Castle Point is completely unpredictable, with the possibility of Bob Spink and the Conservatives splitting the right-of-centre vote down the middle, giving our Brendan D’Cruz a chance…
It’s only an opinion poll, but it’s food for thought.