Ashcroft Unravels Watson Spin
Last week Guido revealed how Corby’s latest resident Tom Watson was instructing Labour spinners to brief that the party expects to lose the upcoming by-election. At the time the Lobby could see straight through Tommo’s tricks:
@GuidoFawkes They got pretty short shrift with that line in this office. 10% win or it's a loss—
Tim Shipman (Mail) (@ShippersUnbound) August 09, 2012
Now the latest polling undertaken by Lord Ashcroft has confirmed that Watson was spouting rubbish. Labour have a huge 15 point lead in the up-for-grabs Northamptonshire seat, with a 9% swing from Blue to Red. UK Polling Report conclude: “Labour shouldn’t have any particular problem taking the seat“. It’s an open goal that they simply cannot miss…
More pies!
This is astounding, are the Corby electorate that thick? Have they forgotten the Labour destruction and Bankruptcy already?
Corby was a traditional British steel town with loads of Scots transferred down from Glasgow etc when there WAS a steel industry and was always labour…it was only 2010 election that Conservatives managed to win which was a surprise in itself given that Mensch didn’t fit the local demographic being a metro centric candidate……..the Conservative base was shallow and it was always going to revert back to labour if they ever got a half decent leader and if the Conservatives were led by useless Dave & Co
But they surely cant be stupid enough to want a party led by useless Ed Milliband and his bunch of failures ? they are the same shower who caused all this ! and any party willing to have the likes of Watson manipulating for them has to be third rate !
It’s the same with many abuse victims – they will go back to the abuser time and time again in the belief that their abuser has changed for the better this time….. and every time.
What do you tell a Labour voter with no job, no savings and no prospect of a comfortable retirement? Nothing – they must fucking love wallowing in their own waste.
low turnout and postal votes guarantee a big swing to Labour in a seat where a lot of Tory support is very soft. The ones who swung it for Mensch in the GE, won’t even bother to vote. By-elections, like local elections, are much more about people not voting. The people whoe decide general elections don’t even bother to vote outside of a GE usually
This isn’t going to change the government so people are more cavalier with their votes. It’s a way of spitting out the dummy but keeping it within the pram.
errrrr surely you mean Porkie Pie Pickles the Poe Faced Piggy
how many times is we gonna recycle this story giuudo ? great isnt it ?
Get back to Ed’s cock.
Porky pies, your speciality dish.
So long as Ed Miliband stays away Labour should have this in the bag.
Yeth: I’m thkilled at mithing open goalth!
It’s an open goal that they simply cannot miss…
That’s what we all thought when Gordon was the goalie! But I suspect their forwards are a bit more skillful than John Terry.
If it wasn’t for John Redwood then Corby would be a Ghost town.
If it wasn’t for Corby then Tom Watson would have had his book out by now.
Leave me alone. Now, where was I? Oh yes. I’d like 789,000 Big Mac value meals please. Make all the drinks Diet Coke.
I suppose it’s all my fault then ?
Too right it is. You should never have stood for election if you could not honour the commitment. Yet another self serving wannabe. Piss off to the USA and stay there.
Dave this is also your fault — a PC “A List” farce
+1
A classic example of the wrong sort of people succeeding in politics. No long term commitment.
To be fair she got married to a man based in New York.
So what? He should move here, and run his “rock band” remotely, which shouldn’t be too difficult. Or are we to assume that the management of some second-rate bunch of unmusical potheads is more important than the honour of being a Member of Parliament in Her Majesty’s Loyal Government?
On the other hand, perhaps NY is more exciting than sitting here extracting money from our pockets, invading our privacy, instructing on every aspect of our lives, brown-nosing Cameron and appearing on TV and in other media.
Sorry Eric – you’re a fucking good guitarist mate – one of the very best no doubt about it, but Jimmy Page? Second rate pot head? It was mainly coke and Jacky D (not smack, as in your case) and more fucking great tunes and riffs than you could count.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers? Totally agree with you – overrated, shit garage band.
Where would you rather run a rock band from: Corby or Manhattan?
Yes. Too much time self publicising and not enough time representing the people who elected you to represent them. It’s disgraceful that you didn’t honour your commitment to the people of the constituency. You knew the deal when you agreed to stand if you could not commit you shouldn’t have took the post.
So, a swing from the seat-deserter’s party to the party of the pre-2010 expenses fiddler.
Please mention Lord Ashcroft as many times a possible…not a very good idea blue noses
Has Dave got a candidate for the by election yet….not exactly lining up are they.
No need Pamplemousse, you lot have saturated the airwaves already.
But if you insist:
Ashcroft, Tory toff,bankers,thatcher,squeezed middle,hard working families…….
We are thinking of Edward the first as having the right candidate profile -should go down well with the locals.
Or someone called Campbell, Segrave (Preferably John, and a Sir) or best of all, a heathen proddy called Glen Coe.
Is that Seb’s cousin – should be a shoo in.
The Tories are about to announce Sir Chris Hoy as their candidate. Working class, Scotch, very popular right now and a unionist to boot.
That’ll fuck Watson right up the arse.
Can we start a fund so we can provide Monge mensch with her one way flight ticket to the states…bloody migrants
Apres vouz Pamplemousse
But you are forgetting the Olympic Factor.
Can you see Watson doing the shot put or Millipede diving into a pool for a Bronze medal.
I rest my case.
Who the fuck is Tom Watson?
“Now the latest polling undertaken by Lord Ashcroft has confirmed that Watson was spouting rubbish.”
Nothing new here, move along please….
Anyone voting for the shower of shite known as the Labour Party needs to be sectioned.
What is up with these clowns?
Very mature comment piss pot. Well done.
It is clearly defeatist Clap trap from Conservative Central Office to even countenance that Corby will not remain a sea of blue with the sterling work being undertaken to improve the economic performance of Brand GB.
All it needs is the appointment of a female far right preferably lesbian Tory candidate and the seat is as safe as houses.
I’m a hero.
Yes, dear. If you don’t stop swinging from the light fitting, I’ll have to flick the switch.
“Lord Ashcroft, a former deputy chairman of the party, said the Tories would “almost certainly” lose the Corby seat and could face the same result in similar contests with Labour at a general election.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/conservatives-set-for-corby-byelection-defeat-8052940.html
I would never have expected a leftie newspaper to say such a thing………
Ashcroft has his own agenda ffs! He says “be like UKIP or they’ll vote Labour!” So be more right-wing or they vote for socialists to finish off destroy the country. Eh????
This is a by-election in a very marginal seat , how the hell is that representative of a GE?
Ashcroft is full of shit.
Assange should be arrested. Otherwise every common criminal will be claiming political asylum.
They already do, and for the most part succeed. The goverment can deport who it wants when it wants. This debacle is the proof of that. The question is why they willingly allow known war criminals, violent/thieving, dangerous scumbags of every nationality from all parts of the globe, to stay in Britain, feather nested for the duration. Oh soon to be joined by myriads of absconding olympians.
Personally I’d just let Assange go to Ecuador… and keep the quarter of a million bailbond. The lefties’ proceeds will go towards Gordon’s unprecedented national debt.
Amazing that Guido can even spin a 15 point Labour lead into a negative. Bravo!
A negative for Watson’s agenda of passing this off as a tough nut so now there’ll be no kudos for him if Labour win and an awful shitstorm if they don’t.
The Labour candidate Andy Sawford owes his success in life to Margaret Thatcher. Under labour he was confemned to a life of toil in the Corby steel mills. After Mrs Thatcher closed them down in 1980 and set up help for the ex steel workers by 1982 Mr Sawford found his new life at Ruskin college Oxford, finally gaining a BA degree and as a result he has not had to do a hard day’s work ever since.
As he was born in 76 your statement suggests that he was working in the steel mills aged 4. Now thatcher was bad for the people of Corby but even she wouldn’t have made a 4 year old work 12 hour days in the mill. perhaps you are getting confused with his father Phil sawford who went on to represent the Kettering constituency. Moussa kousa get your facts right.
You know a Government of any colour is in trouble when it starts to see the level it is behind in a by electioon as positive spin.
Guido is rapidly becoming the Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf of the right wing media.
So why is Mensch standing down? “To spend more time with my family” never means that.
I hope the Tories lose by a massive amount. One can but hope they will learn from it.
It’s all a diabolically clever plan to make me look like I’ve pulled a rabbit out of my hat when we most assuredly win. After the dog’s dinner I made of the recent Birmingham elected-mayor vote, in my own backyard, I need to be seen as effective and effectual. I’ve already told all the bloggers and talking-head types I own, behind the scenes, that the spin will be that, in the face of criticism that Tom Watson doesn’t take his position as Campaigner-in-Chief seriously, he tamped down any feeling of arrogant overconfidence on the part of Labourites that they had a shoo-in and supervised a get-out-the-vote which surprised even him at how it got the voters to turn out in such force and in such a margin for Labour. It only looks like I lay about all day drinking beer and eating crisps whilst playing xBox– I’m hard at work (said the Bishop…)!
What could possibly go wrong?
Sorry. This was meant to be a comment on the thread ‘Finally, Guido gets something right’ – but I can’t find it. Back to the meds ….
They are thickos in Corby.
With that kind of statement I assume you must live there and be one of the aforementioned thickos.
With that kind of statement I assume you must live there and be one of the aforementioned thickos.
Only 15? What’s wrong wrong with these people?
Thick Northern cvnts Jimmy, you know the sort!
Not enough of them listen to the BBC, obviously.
Can’t believe that some moron’s on here actually think that Dave & Co are still doing a good job! The bumbling buffoon’s are now in the process of making Gordon Brown look good, they completely lack any credibility, and, if possible have lowered public opinion on politician’s!
Labour will win this one easily, Dave & Co will sit around smugly waffling that it was only to be expected, and they will still be waffling when Labour win the next election.
What’s with all the inappropriate apostrophes?