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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... -
Bigotgate
28th April 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Finally our gaffe thirst has been quenched, and fairly spectacularly. There's no point me writing it all out here as it's already been copied verbatim around the internet.
Iain Martin - BBC News - Sky News - Iain Dale (see here too) - you get the idea.Whatever you might think of someone who says, "All these Eastern Europeans what are coming in - where are they flocking from?", she is Labour... -
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... -
Celebrities and politics make for a depressing cocktail
19th April 2010 | 6 comments | 6 people like this
I was going to post this last week and it's now slightly past its read-by date, but I was deafened by the cacophony of juvenile hysteria with which the public greeted their discovery that Nick Clegg was not ejected from the 3rd round of last year's Britain's Got Talent but is, in fact, a politician who is not a Tory or Labour. "There's a third party?!", they squeeled, like children...
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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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Labour’s manifesto met by headscratching and crowdsourcing
12th April 2010 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this
Labour launched their manifesto today. There's no point in me repeating much of what's already been said, but I would recommend these analyses: Guido Fawkes, Nick Robinson, Adam Boulton. Also, have a look at the real thing, especially the video, which is... er, well, let me hand over to Sky's Glen Oglaza for a moment.
I am trying to be less partisan on this blog for various reasons, but today presents... -
Twitter claims its first scalp of the election
9th April 2010 | 1 comments | 3 people like this
It was always going to happen. Today Stuart MacLennan, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Moray (it's in Scotland), was sacked because of tweets he posted before he was selected. Quite brilliantly he is quoted as saying in the past, ""Iain Dale reckons the biggest gaffes will likely be made by candidates on Twitter - what are the odds it'll be me?"
Obviously you'll be wondering what he said, so if you're... -
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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