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The Guardian continues to tease us

July 26th, 2006
    The wait for the July ICM poll continues

sophia loren.jpgIt’s now just on 2am and I am off to bed. There is no sign on the Guardian’s web pages of the July ICM survey even though they must have had the data for a couple of days.

After suggesting yesterday that the paper was playing a form of striptease this appeared in our comments thread at 5.19pm yesterday evening - “Sorry to keep you waiting for the rest of the poll. It will be out soon. The results are interesting for all three parties, I promise…”. The writer was Julian Glover who usually covers polls for the paper. He is clearly taking his inspiration from Sophia Loren - seen here in a 1963 shot.

Please use this thread to discuss it when it does come out.

Mike Smithson



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17 comments to “The Guardian continues to tease us”

  1. Most tenuous picture ever :-)

         by book value July 26th, 2006 at 6:07 am

  2. “Boccaccio 70″-Sophia Loren?

         by Roger July 26th, 2006 at 9:05 am

  3. Roger, I think it’s “”Ieri, oggi e domani”.

         by Andrea July 26th, 2006 at 9:10 am

  4. I’m not sure why we are all so excited about the poll. I am sure the picture of Sophia Loren above is more interesting.

    Her thighs appear a little too overstated in it? Is it a rogue picture?

         by SBS July 26th, 2006 at 10:06 am

  5. :shock: …. Well, she’s just removed from the chap out of shot a bloody large condom !!!!!!!!

         by Jack W July 26th, 2006 at 10:12 am

  6. I seem to recall a few years ago a big EU row over condom size. Apparently the Italian standard had a diameter one or two millimetres smaller than the EU norm.

         by SBS July 26th, 2006 at 10:17 am

  7. 6 SBS. It’s quite clear that Sophia has partaken of a fellow Scot !

         by Jack W July 26th, 2006 at 10:33 am

  8. I’m surprised no one’s got a copy of the Guardian by now! Don’t you Guardian readers get an early morning paper? Not that it’s that early any more. :)

         by Raj July 26th, 2006 at 10:45 am

  9. 6.”Apparently the Italian standard had a diameter one or two millimetres smaller than the EU norm. ”

    Are you suggesting Italians don’t have enough “materials” to put in it? How you dare! :wink:

         by Andrea July 26th, 2006 at 10:47 am

  10. ICM poll… still no sign on the Guardian website - but the politics/polls page will give Labour supporters some heartening news. Under ‘State of the parties’ the page has the August Guardian/ICM poll as their “latest monthly survey”, showing Labour with a 7% lead over the Conservatives… shame it’s from August 2005 though.

         by Jon July 26th, 2006 at 11:17 am

  11. This was going against the grain but I bought the paper and found there was nothing about the poll.

    Each day, of course, the survey becomes more out of date and, anyway, we should have YouGov in the Telegraph on Friday.

         by Mike Smithson July 26th, 2006 at 12:16 pm

  12. Mike

    lol what a scam! Seems like someone’s on a wind-up! :D

         by Raj July 26th, 2006 at 12:49 pm

  13. 9 - not at all. But it was a true EU story in the early 1990s.

         by SBS July 26th, 2006 at 1:35 pm

  14. 13 - in fact, Andrea, I was awaiting your interjection on this matter.

         by SBS July 26th, 2006 at 1:36 pm

  15. 14. I blame the Christian Democrats! :wink:
    Can you picture Buttiglione talking about condom diameter?

         by Andrea July 26th, 2006 at 1:50 pm

  16. Well, here’s the page: http://www.icmresearch.co.uk/reviews/2006/Guardian%20-%20July/guardian-july-2006.asp

    But at the moment it’s “unreachable”

         by Harry Hayfield July 26th, 2006 at 2:15 pm

  17. page 312 on teletext saying latest ICM poll shows Lib Dem support has dropped by 4% in a month,back to levels not seen since start of Iraq War.No word on Lab or Con levels.

         by Vino July 26th, 2006 at 8:04 pm