Rachel Sylvester writes…
“Meanwhile, like new Labour with its red-rose pagers in the 1990s, Conservative HQ shows growing signs of control-freakery as party managers attempt to contain the message. Frontbenchers must provide a list of all lunches that they have with journalists and are forbidden to do unauthorised interviews.”
Another Twittish Tweet from Kerry McCarthy | BBC
What’s the Point of Our Anti-Business Secretary? | Ruth Porter
HuffPo Hiring Pro-Iranian Mehdi “Act of Desperation” | Fox News
Krugman is Seductive, Simplistic and Unrealistic | Jeremy Warner
Lower Taxes, Higher Growth, the Statistical Evidence | CPS
Bash the Unions, Gatecrash the Quangos | ConservativeHome
I Told You So: Euro is Doomed | Douglas Carswell
PM Speaks for the Nation When Bashing Balls | Quentin Letts
Time for an Alliance | Dan Hannan
Farage’s Plan | ConservativeHome
Guardian Open News is a Failure | Heather Brooke
Balls Calls for Deeper Cuts | Speccie
Lessons from the Thirties | CPS
PMQs Idiots | Harry Cole
Jon Cruddas is Not the Messiah | Dan Hodges
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
So it starts- more authoritarian crap
We’ll see – quite shortly as it happens.
But Conservative shadow cabinet members could do with improving their game. Right now their message isn’t heard very well. They need to sing like a choir otherwise nothing will get across.
Labour still do this very effectively.
Its not pretty, its not ideal, it would be great if for example Labour minister actually made substantive arguments and engaged in debate on TV – but they don’t. All they care about is getting the narrative across from their script to voters sub conscious without passing through the mind of either.
The Conservative party have to match them. The alternative is 5 more years of Gordon Brown.
Heir to Blair.
More of the same please guv… yes… harder harder…. That’s how I like it.
they need to get behind cam do they wan to win or air their opinions with no one listening in opposition
The major parties are attempting to gag their MPs and PPCs with threats, including that of deselection, if they attempt to support the call for candidates to become accountable to their constituents:
http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/daily-post-liverpool-uk/mi_8008/is_20100129/eu/ai_n48766748/
We have had so much of this coming through to us that we’ve had to introduce a Secret Pledge system for candidates who are getting the third degree. The worst offender is the Cameron-Clarke Labour Clone Party.
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