Unpaid Yorkshire Post. The column they can't afford even though it's free Election 05 Written by Austin Mitchell    20 April 2005 Two features make this election more difficult to predict than any predecessor. The polls are usually pretty good predictors but got a bloody nose last time. So they’ve changed their methods. MORI continues with good old interviews, others have switched to cheaper phone surveys. A couple have gone to even cheaper email polling which is better at displaying trends rather than predicting results. So there are wide variations from a l0% Labour lead to a l%. The old trick of averaging them out won`t work because you can`t average different methods. Read more...   Election Campaign Launch - Text of Austin's speech, from Grimsby Town Hall, Tuesday April 12th Election 05 Written by Austin Mitchell    18 April 2005 Thank you for adopting me as your Labour candidate. I’m delighted to fight this election. We fight to win. I’m sorry though to present myself with a missing front tooth as if I was a National Front Candidate or had just had an argument with John Prescott. I was listening to World at One yesterday where Michael Howard was promising more police, cleaner hospitals, lower taxes, school discipline and controlled immigration. I don’t know if you were thinking what was thinking, which was why the hell didn’t he do all this in eighteen years in power? But it was such a mean, malevolent, nasty collection of policies that I was grinding my teeth in anger. One broke and fell out. Read more...   Grimsby Telegraph questions and Election 05 Written by Austin Mitchell    15 April 2005 Question 1 List six SPECIFIC things that you, not the Government, have done for Grimsby since elected.   Read more...   ELECTION BLOG!!! Election 05 Written by Austin Mitchell    04 April 2005 Bored of the election campaign already? Never mind, Austins Election Blog will provides an antidote to a boring national campaign. Read more...   Austins Election No Spin Zone Election 05 Written by Austin Mitchell    22 March 2005 Welcome to my little election site. Not the most glittering but it will include verbs. Plus my my own views rather than Party line porridge. You`re electing an MP who should think for himself, not a parrot. Read more...