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# What RBI's Business Bloggers are saying about the General Election
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2010/05/what_rbis_business_bloggers_are_saying_a/
- Published: 2010-05-07T11:59:49.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-28T13:05:54.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: bloggers, elections, general election, Politics, rbi blogs

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So, popping my day job hat on, what have RBI’s pool of bloggers been saying about the general election?

\*Estates Gazette\*‘s bloggers have been particularly busy:

\- The Pint of Milk Test notes that \[No.10 Downing Street is heading to HMO (House in Multiple Occupancy) status\](http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/london-residential-research/2010/05/10-downing-street-heads-for-hm.html). - The Planning Blog frets that \[planning is going to be pushed further down the agenda\](http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/property-planning/2010/05/general-election-2010-will-planning-be-hung-out-to-dry.html). - Paul Norman spots that \[the minister responsible for the Olympics Legacy fell to the Tories.\](http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/olympics/2010/05/olympic-legacy-minister-out-of-the-running.html) - Jackie Sadeck reveals a past of political protest – \[but thinks this is the wrong time for a fight over proportional representation\](http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/jackie-sadek/2010/05/a-debate-about-pr-is-a-luxury-we-cannot-afford.html). 

\*New Scientist\*‘s\*\*S Word blog thinks that \[science lost the election\](http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/thesword/2010/05/uk-election-science-is-the-los.html).

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\*Community Care\*‘s Mad World blog is running a poll on what its readers \[want from a hung parliament\](http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/mental-health/2010/05/uk-hung-parliament-what-is-you.html), while The Big Picture asks if \[more people with learning disabilities voted\](http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-care-the-big-picture/2010/05/did-more-people-with-learning-disabilities-vote-in-the-general-election.html) this time around.

\*XpertHR \*asks if \[public sector strikes are inevitable\](http://www.xperthr.co.uk/blogs/employment-intelligence/2010/05/general-election-2010-is-publi.html).

\*Computer Weekly\*‘s Tony Collins notes that the \[minister responsible for local service provision contracts lost his seat to the Tories\](http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony\_collins/2010/05/npfit-minister-loses-his-seat.html) by the slimmest of margins.

\*Microscope\*‘s Simon Quicke thinks \[the result is bad for small businesses\](http://www.microscope.co.uk/blogs/quicke-view/2010/05/this-means-we-have-to-suffer-more-politics-and-uncertainty.html).

The Asian Chemical Connections blog from \*ICIS \*bemoans the \[lack of personality in politicians\](http://www.icis.com/blogs/asian-chemical-connections/2010/05/uk-general-election-charisma-b.html) today. 

And \*Farmers Weekly\*‘s Matthew Naylor notes that \[England has a Tory majority\](http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/lincolnshire-farming-blog/2010/05/waking-up-with-an-election.html) – it’s only the devolved Scotland and Wales keeping us hung…

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