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Finally, the party has started
12th May 2010 | 6 comments | 1 person likes this
There was no point blogging over the last few days as either nothing or everything was happening. Now the dust is beginning to settle, things are becoming slightly clearer. A very neat deal has been done between the Lib Dems and the Tories. Several clever trade offs have been made: Osborne as Chancellor but Cable in the Treasury, Hague stays as Foreign Sec but Clegg gets to carve out his...
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Your options for government
6th May 2010 | 3 comments | 4 people like this
Please choose from one of the following options
Government tariff 1: Pray As You Go: Lib-Lab coalition (24 month contract)*Hung Parliament. Tories are the largest party but Lib Dems poll well. Labour are nowhere. Tories manifestly do not want a Lib-Tory coalition and Cameron rules it out. He’s playing the long game. Clegg has to stick to his refusal to work with the leader who polled lowest, so has to wait... -
Interview: Tim Archer
4th May 2010 | 1 comments | 2 people like this
Tim Archer is the Conservative PPC for Poplar and Limehouse. Why did I ask him for an interview? Well, apart from the fact that Poplar and Limehouse is my constituency, it's also a very interesting seat. Over to UK Polling Report:
Poplar and Limehouse is perhaps the most surprising seat on the Conservative target list, requiring a swing of just under 6%, the same sort of figure as more obvious targets... -
What is a ‘fair’ electoral system?
27th April 2010 | 4 comments | 1 person likes this
As mentioned in my previous post, I think Cameron's best shot at victory is to steal the reformist mantle from Clegg by proposing something that is perceived by the public to be even more radical. I mean this is his best shot in the same way that jumping out of your car when the brakes don't work and you're heading for a petrol station at 120mph is your best shot, but...
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A coalition post
26th April 2010 | 5 comments | 1 person likes this
Three articles have caught my eye this morning, partly because I was logging on here to write largely the same kind of piece only without the same level of detail, historical analysis or wordsmithsmanship. So instead, what with the wonders of the internet and everything, I will simply link to them and spare you 600 words on why the three party system is anathema to a well maintained and regularly serviced political system.
Telegraph.co.uk: Boris... -
The second debate could seal the deal
22nd April 2010 | 2 comments | 2 people like this
The last seven days have been very strange. Nobody saw the result of the first debate coming. The fallout has been messy and unpredictable - not to mention disgraceful from the Daily Mail - because nobody could really gauge how real Clegg's bounce was. I still don't think they can. The betting markets have been all over the shop and have only just started to calm down. Tonight, I feel,...
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Clegg shakes things up
16th April 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
Nick Clegg was only ever going to win last night's debate. All he had to do was not soil himself or suggest introducting sat nav for asylum seekers and he was there. This is, I think, because most people had absolutely no opinion of him. The vast majority of people have made up their mind about GB and DC; they are fixed entities. As such, they would both have to do...
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Is the Conservatives’ narrative too ambitious?
13th April 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
The Tories' manifesto was unveiled today. You can read it here. For goodness sake don't go for the high resolution one as it will probably crash your browser. At a whopping 77 megabytes / 130 pages, I refuse to believe that anyone, not even its author, has read it all the way through. But you don't need to, because, unlike Labour, the Tories have a narrative. Like all good narratives...
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Tax and defend
8th April 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
It is becoming increasingly clear, should we need reminding, that the great British public don't necessarily respond well to the truth. The truth, for example, that our national debt must be brought under control and that necessarily entails some form of (further) burden on them, whether through tax rises or cuts in public services. However, as the Tories found out to their cost, albeit perhaps temporary, talking about the age...
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Politics of Parody Redux
11th February 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
As expected, Labour have launched their own poster. I use 'launched' loosely as it only exists online because, as mentioned previously, they have no money. But their problems go further than that. Here are some off the cuff reasons as to why Labour's poster is, simply, rubbish.
1. While their mockery of the Tories' first poster was entirely valid, they have learnt nothing from it. The Cameron NHS poster was very...
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