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.”
Communism Good. Capitalism Bad | Mail
Bring Back Coulson | Telegraph
The Case for Gay Marriage | Tim Montgomerie
UKIP MEP Drunk and Drugged Up | Political Scrapbook
Staggers Israel Hating Again | Robin Shepherd
India Should be Giving Us Money | Mail
Harry Potter to Ed’s Rescue | Dot Commons
Labour Would Have Borrowed More | FT
Better Late Than Never | The Commentator
Wallace and Gromit Embarrassed by Miliband Comparison | Indy
Noel Gallagher: Thatcherite | Mail
Will ‘Marital Coercion’ Be Vicky Pryce’s Defence? | Jerry Hayes
David Miliband: Truly Feeble Man’s Self-Pity | Matthew Norman
The West’s Money Go Round | John Redwood
Huhne: You’d Need a Heart of Stone Not to Laugh | James Delingpole
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Guido chuckled at the following exchange he had with a Tory insider:
Tory: “What’s Labour’s position on the Syria crisis?”
GF: “They say you should be talking to Russia.”
Tory: “Labour have been saying that since 1945.”
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
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.
[...] There’s dirty politics going on, folks and the aim is to, under no circumstances accede to the will of the people to have a say in their affairs but to retain control, by all means possible, of the reins of power in Westminster. Guido posts on this. [...]