Tag Archives: Conservative Politics
Hung Parliament Leaves All Parties Hungover
An extraordinary election. No supporter of the mainstream parties will wake this morning with anything other than disapointment about the national picture: The Lib Dems must be crest-fallen. The supposed surge was illusionary. The expected shift to second place proved a … Continue reading
Filed under Election
My “BBC Question Time” Audience Experience
Janet Street-Porter has a potty mouth. Her verdict on the Leaders Debate? “Too much fucking testosterone. May as well just have been done with it and had the three blokes just slap their cocks on the table.” Dimbleby raised a … Continue reading
Filed under Centre Right, Election, UK Politics
What Gillian Duffy Exposed About Brown
I have friends who are still staunch Labour supporters. Even when they agree with Tory policy it comes down to them just not trusting Cameron. Sure, he seems a nice guy on the telly but they’re convinced that behind closed … Continue reading
Filed under Election
Backstage at the Leaders Debate (Part 2)
As you will have read HERE I went to the Leaders debate in Bristol on Thursday and got sucked into the crazy world of the national media. The Guy News crew have put together a video of the evening which … Continue reading
Filed under Centre Right, Election, Politics
Backstage at the Leaders Debate
It’s not often you get to elbow the Secretary of State for Defence. OK, it was an accident, but let me revel in the glory anyway… Bob Ainsworth was behind me worming his way towards Kay Burley to demand an … Continue reading
Filed under Election
Conservatives in Birmingham Ladywood
Last night I attended an election event hosted by the Conservatives for its members in Birmingham Ladywood. Nusrat Ghani, the Parliamentary Candidate, had been rendered voiceless by tonsillitis and was under strict orders to stay away and recover*. I’m her … Continue reading
Filed under Politics, UK, UK Politics
Labour All Over: The Letter of Not the Spirit of the Rules
We’re now into week 2 of the election campaign and today Labour launched their manifesto. They were doing the launch here in Birmingham and I decided to go along and give Brown an old-fashioned democratic heckle. The plan was … Continue reading
Filed under Politics, UK, UK Politics
And We’re Under Starters Orders….
So it’s a ‘go’. In the least surprising announcement of 2010 Brown has finally revealed that the election will be May 6th. It was particularly gratifying for me to hear David Cameron use my strap-line from this blog in his … Continue reading
Filed under Indulgent, UK Politics
Why George Osborne is an Optimist – and Why He Needs to Be
The knives are well and truly out for George Osborne. The Observer reports that Labour are going to target him as the shadow teams ‘weakest link’. The polling data (referenced in the Observer article) confirms that the public are averse … Continue reading
