Lazy Tory Slackers M.I.A.
Iain is having a go at Peter Ainsworth for going M.I.A. (Missing In Airtime) during the floods, Benedict Brogan said something similar about part-time shadow cabinet members recently, a bemused journo told Guido he couldn't believe Hague was missing from the last Zimbabwe debate, the M.I.A. list is endless.
CCHQ is nowadays staffed by people who have never won an election and don't even seem to fight to win the way the usually third placed Cowley Street operators do. CCHQ needs to move to battle-stations rather than the lacking any sense of urgency, business-as-usual default mode.
For every Alan Duncan, Chris Grayling and David Davis there are two Shadow Cabinet slackers. When you remember the mid-90s and compare how New Labour's leading lights grabbed broadcast airtime like it was oxygen, you have to wonder. Do these people really have the drive to win?
CCHQ is nowadays staffed by people who have never won an election and don't even seem to fight to win the way the usually third placed Cowley Street operators do. CCHQ needs to move to battle-stations rather than the lacking any sense of urgency, business-as-usual default mode.
For every Alan Duncan, Chris Grayling and David Davis there are two Shadow Cabinet slackers. When you remember the mid-90s and compare how New Labour's leading lights grabbed broadcast airtime like it was oxygen, you have to wonder. Do these people really have the drive to win?
73 comments:
From watching tv news you would thintk the conservatives have packed up and gone home.So many open goals and no one with any balls! no wonder bruun is having a poll boost nobody is arguing with him.
mitch said... @2:34 PM
Yep mitch, agree fully with you.
Note how Broon has taken to elbowing other Cabinet Ministers out of the way to make announcements now he has realised that the Opposition (both Con & Lib Dem) have ignored his weaknesses.
and where is andy coulson in all this?
is he shirking? or simply finding out that he's beating his head against a brick wall..?
Or perhaps, the Broadcast news agenda, especially that of the BBC, Has deliberately ignored the Conservative Party's opinions (unless it's slagging them off) for the last ten years?
And Labour have always been the Party of protest, so they spend a large part of their political lives going on demos and waving placards about, that equips them very well for slagging off a Conservative government. But not for actually being in government, as we have seen.
The Tories may have got into the habit of not attacking Labour because it got ignored or ended up with BBC led counter attack which would get more airtime.
That is probably why we've got the Cameron, we don't do Punch n' Judy politics anymore, stuff. Nothing wrong with being positive, but a lot of Nulab crap has started to unravel in this parliament and they should at least look like they are trying a bit harder. But getting that over to Joe Schmo elector might be a bit difficult with such ongoing pro-Labour/ anti-Tory agenda a in large parts of the MSM.
There is no way the BBC 10 o'clock evening news will lead with
"There was criticism of the government today, by the Conservatives..."
For the last ten years it's been
"The government has said/launched ....."
Then the BBC, if allows an opposition voice at all, usually has a very short quote from the Lib Dems.
The Conservatives, do not have the power to set the news agenda, but Labour's friends do, as we have seen recently. But it would be more settling to grass-roots if they were seen be trying to stir up trouble for Labour.
The answer is.
We currently dont know if they do, and we should know by now.
However dont compare this present Conservative bunch of public schoolboys with Labours last bunch of public shoolboys.
A better comparison would be with the last lot of Conservative public school boys that were last in opposition.
There you will find a not so supprising simularity.
Norris the other day stated that his potential London mayors wages was I think 'small change'.
Being a Conservative in opposition is not very SEXY and certainly not profitable. There is nothing that inspires any type of man more then more sex and profit. It matters not which privilaged school they attended or political ideology they hold either.
Given the above.
The reason why socialists work so hard in opposition, is because they simply have far more lies to tell and generally nead the extra cash a little more. Due to the ever more obvious fact that absolutly none of them have any idea how to create any wealth themselves whatsoever.
Letts face it forcing us to beleive that far higher taxes results in more freedom liberty and untimate wealth for the individual is quite a BIG, not to say incredibly massive vindictive and profoundly illiberal LIE and therefore neads to be told many many times.
Its also a (just about as big as it jolly well gets) lie that the BBC, for mindblowingly obvious reasons, is extreamly protective of.
This BBC/Labour Party "you scratch our back and you still get the 'free' cash." Who neads conspiracy? Makes being a Socialist and getting a good showing on the box at any time a piece of pleasurable and resonably profitable piss.
Pays for the LINE they snorted to give them the energy to tell all those lies with a straight, albiet mouth crewing, face anyway.
Guido, it is the same in Scotland. We have a central office up here that is utterly clueless in every aspect. It has no idea how to win an election and treats every ok result as some sort of victory. Many in the Scottish Conservative Central office believe the recent Holyrood election result as a success. It is dilusional to the extreme.
The party North and South of the Border face a massive uphill struggle to be seen as electable, a struggle they seem to be losing, and badly
What do you expect when the Conservative Party allows the advancement of fellows engaged in TRADE!
On the floods/Rwanda issue, Cameron should perhaps have publically appointed media-friendly Ed Vaizey as his Man-in-the-Flood-waters. They have adjoining constituencies, and Vaizey's contains Wallingford, which was also at risk of flooding. Or perhaps he could have appointed Boris Johnson (who has the Thames in his Henley consituency) to show that Boris can act responsibly in a crisis - and so add to his gravitas ahead of the London mayoral vote. Either would have been a damn sight better coverage than the way it played out...
One for those to young to remember.
In the seventies. Conservatives were on the box no more then today, and young libertarian Conservatives even more NEVER then today. When some out of touch old Tory did get anywhere near the TV they also had to compete with a mandatory representative of the Trades Union Movement as well as a liberal and a Labour Party rep.
Inspite of the cold war, wide spread socialist inspired poverty, and frequent breakdowns in civil-order all over the country. The BBC and ITV spent almost all its reporting energy on propagateing the Labour movement and every and all issues relateing to it.
Before or after Thatcher came to power the BBC did not deliberately give her or her chums one seconds worth of good publicity EVER, and she was lower middle class and most importantly a woman.
So what chance does a married hetro white Christian half fascist Tory Toff with an eco-fixation have with our now almost completly Fascist government cash and liecence dependant media?
Even the Daily Mail prefures a real whole and true believing Fascist in Gordon Brown. The picture for liberty in the world is extreamly grim to say the very least.
The Tories should have learnt that only Labour can get away with this sort of thing with the BBC.
IMO this current government has now moved so far to the LEFT which means RIGHT in BBC speak. That we have now ventured off the political scale straight into dictatorship.
Perhaps its just time to shut up and try and get as personally rich on other peoples missery as possible? Its the only future for small business in the UK now anyway.
No will to win. Too many selected Prima Donnas ,A listers big heads and Totties who have no idea . Im pissed off with the lot of em and wont be supporting Cameroon. Also CCHQ is run by Bum boys and Gayboos which is turning off any decent person.
Friday Caption Contest sums it up with the Dick Emery lookalike and Homo gay Boy cameron having a Bit of A ride on the side. The little silvery boy kissing lips make me sick.
Get rid of the Homos and we will be one closer a jerk to winning.
gary powell needs to get a hobby.
Anonymous at 5.08pm - You really are a sick fuck aren't you. You're also factually incorrect in your vile hate mongering since the Tory party has always had many Gay men in its higher ranks, particularly in CCO/CCHQ, and their sexuality has nothing to do with their job performance. Indeed in the 1950's the CRD was almost entirely staffed by gays and yet that didn't exactly hurt the party's performance did it. Yes CCHQ are bloody useless but that's got a lot more to do with it being staffed by moronic teenage toffs with absolutely no life experience or understanding of people outside of Notting Hill & Fulham than with who staffers choose to shag.
And where is Cameron during the flooding? Why should others give a shite when Cameron doesn't seem to? Leaders LEAD and don't expect others to lead them.
Blaming the media and BBC is all very well while you are actually here amidst the carnage, but if you aren't, don't moan.
Bliar/Brown/New Labour won through negativity, and will do so again while ever mongs like Cameron are trying to get the nice cretin vote. Quite apart from the anti-Tory policies.
Notice too how the arch ring licking cunt Dale actually manages to lick a few dingle berries from Camerons ring in this same article by pushing the emphasis away from Camerons dereliction? Brown didn't delegate and was there, and Cameron has suffered greatly from that...what a twat.
GF asks:
Do these people really have the drive to win?
GW suggests:
Maybe the simplest problem of all is that Cameron and his claque have been in adoring thrall to Blair. The opposition front bench includes, after all, Michael Gove, who not long ago wrote: "I can't fight my feelings any more: I love Tony ... as a rightwing polemicist, all I can say looking at Mr Blair now is, what's not to like?" An interesting question, but there was everything for an honourable Tory to dislike about the Blair junta - the meretricious vulgarity, the intellectual dishonesty, the cheap demagoguery, the sheer deadly emptiness at the heart of New Labour.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2135948,00.html
My hobby is increasingly, not being in Britain. Which is an ever more frequent hobby of many of my age and others. Its the ultimate type of vote, but sadly one that no one anymore gives a sod about in parliament untill they have to bring in money controlls again. Which we can all hope and pray they dont.
Anyone that has
Gone on a driving holiday
Played Golf.
Clubbed.
Sunbathed.
Played Tennis.
Fished.
Shagged.
Pulled.
Got pissed
Spent quality time with the wife and kidds.
Or generally just tryed to relax and enjoy the pleasure of a place with no speed cameras parking wardens and other pathetic bullshit regulations designed to 'legaly' pick your pocket.
(I try to do all of them if I can, but dont tell the mrs.)
In another country lately.
Will mostly tell you that the UK is the worst possible place left on the airlines map to do any of them again in, even for millionairs.
Yes, but Iain Dale is talking complete and utter bollocks on stilts if he is suggesting that Alan Duncan is the man to take over.
An oil man to take over at the Department of the Environment when the climate change catastrophe is the biggest challenge facing our entire generation ? Wrong wrong wrong...
Dale just doesn't get it on complete change, although he is starting to learn about development issues. Although the fact that many imbeciles in the Tory party think a trip to Rwanda was a waste of time mean that they won't be getting my vote just yet.
Crikey, some of you guys are thirty years behind the times and need to catch up seriously with changing times, or you'll be dead as dodos.
garypowell - fuck off you moronic twat - are you seriously asking us to believe that you are in favour of uncontrolled binge drinking, dickheads being able to drive as fast as they like, and youths being able to spread sexually transmitted diseases with impunity while we pick up the tab ? Or are you saying that such 'pleasures' should only be available unrestricted to millionaires [sic] such as yourself ? In your dreams, arsehole..
This country is better off without you..
Cameron's problem is that he thought 'long and hard' about going to Rwanda and he still got it wrong. It was an even bigger fiasco than his Norwegian hug-a-huskie saga. While he's busy doing nothing his critics say he should bloody well do something, but whenever he does anything his lack of judgment is woefully exposed.
The Tories aren't in with a sniff at the next election unless Labour makes itself unpopular first. Just now the government's political instincts are beginning to look a lot sounder than Cameron's.
I'm not sure I understand this media relations concept. One commenter [marquee mark] says:
On the floods/Rwanda issue, Cameron should perhaps have publically appointed media-friendly Ed Vaizey as his Man-in-the-Flood-waters.
What does that actually mean? Stand there and look wet?
Or perhaps he could have appointed Boris Johnson (who has the Thames in his Henley consituency) to show that Boris can act responsibly in a crisis
Appointed to what position? Sandbag Czar?
Shotgun says:
And where is Cameron during the flooding? Why should others give a shite when Cameron doesn't seem to? Leaders LEAD and don't expect others to lead them.
What was Cameron supposed to do? Organise the emergency services? Build a levy? Start a line of buckets?
I'm not a huge fan of the current Tory leadership or CCHQ, but the criticism they've received of late is off the mark.
geezer, you really are a whinging cunt!
There are scores of people that work for the party who not only know how to run elections, but win them too, as they did in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990'. They are out in the constituencies, they have not all retired yet ! Some Regional Agents know what they are doing too - but some campaign directors have no idea what day of the week it is.
Those Constituency Agents are still there winning elections, but choose not to work for the central party or maybe as successful as they are, their faces do not fit !
Perhaps they are the wise ones, who stay in the same constituencies for years and years as only there is their job guaranteed.
And don’t forget, the really good ones earn far more than CCHQ is willing to pay !
Our Agent is like that. Yes we pay him very well, worth every penny, as he gets results.
My, my, what a troubled political party we have here. Grass root supporters bitching at each other. "It's Daves fault, no its the BBC, no it's the poofs what done it, and what about those bloody public school boys"!
For fucks sake people, get a grip.
I suspect the Tories do not have the will to win Guido. Nick Cohen wrote an interesting piece last Sunday on why they are so much less motivated than Labour was in the 90s: it's the fact they've so bleeding well out of the Blair years. Hard to feel hungry when you've been living so high on the hog.
Nadine
Good on you.
In my experience of the Conervative Party which is long. It RUNS so to speak on the energy and spare time of mainly homo-sexuality of single and married men, and always has done.
And very friendly nice intelligent clean constructive talented hard working youngish people they are too. They just dont generally let the fact they like a bit of D..K more often then not, controll their political thinking.
Iain Dale being a very good example at this type. There is literally thousands of Iain Dale types in Conservative politics all over the country.
Hetrosexual men with jobs wives and kidds would not be so keen to waste 3 hours of their 'wife allowed' spare time just choosing the wine for the latest constituency chat about the latest cricket results?
I know I can not be bothered anyway.
should have read 'done so bleeding well
Look at Andrew Lansley. Where the hell is he? The health service is completely crap but we haven't seen Lansley for months - make that years. I was at St Georges Hospital in Tooting the other day and it was like Heathrow airport but less clean - total fucking mess. Cameron needs to really get tough with his front bench. As for the backbenchers, most of the old duffers need deselecting. Anyway, I think it might be too late. We may be witnessing a long drawn out death. What form an opposition will take in the future is anybody's guess. Are there any recent parallels in other Western countries?
Shotgun said...
Another tedious little posting from a guy who makes guns for Gods sake.That's got to get you thinking surely.Bloody man's a simpleton.
People keep mentioning Alan Duncan and I always quite surprised how he has not risen up the party higher than he has and why he is not more visible than he is.
Is a shame - he is hard working, very intelligent and very ambitious. I agree that Dave should harness some of that energy and put him and other like him to the forefront if only to give others in the shadow cabinet an incentive.
skipper said...
should have read 'done so bleeding well
Hi, skipper as you posted using your Google account you are able to edit and correct your own comments.This means it was not necessary to post the correction.We in the Labour party offer you this little bit of information for free.
anon @6:51
"..Are there any recent parallels in other Western countries?"
The French 4th Republic had the OAS. We could do worse.
Fucking Iain Dale is a prat. Cameron is a prat. The fucking right is full of fucking prats. Thats the fucking problem.
If they'd called Ken Clark instead of this sack of shite we'd have a fucking opposition.
Oh and Iain Dale can fuck right off, the lefty twat.
Nothing wrong with a kick the government in the gonads approach, the trouble is Dave and Co seem to think they have to work on policies and commissions. The message should be lets kick out the NuLab fockers out, now! You don' win elections simply by hugging trees and being at one with a husky.
Anonymous said...If they'd called Ken Clark instead of this sack of shite we'd have a fucking opposition.
Problem, Ken is fat and old.He also sells ciggies which kill people.Labour encourages folk to give up smoking.Another excellent policy from the Nice Party.
"CCHQ is nowadays staffed by people who have never won an election and don't even seem to fight to win the way the usually third placed Cowley Street operators do."
Couldn't have put it better. The problem is that the party higher echelons just do not see this and are happy to keep the recently graduated Oxbridge types in places of campaigning authority. These people have never won in difficult scraps with Labour and have absolutely no idea what it means to win elections.
I wonder also how competent the HR department is. Do they look for proven campaigning prowess when employing people in such vacancies? Or do they see where mummy and daddy have sent them to boarding school?
Maybe it is this area which needs serious examination?
The worst thing about the tory party is 25 Victoria Street. If the party stopped interfering with the constituencies and having candidates lists then it might actually end up with some modern versions of tebbit ridley et al rather than filtering them out.
Ken Clark may sell ciggies but he appeals to the broader mass of the working class.
Brown's honeymoon won't last much longer. Most of us here in the City can see the writing on the wall: the UK economy is living on borrowed time. Basically it's fucked and we are heading for stagflation, recession, and economic depression, in that order largely thanks to Brown and his policies over the past ten years.
Brace yourselves for: a crash in house prices, hedge fund collapses, massive business failures, rising unemployment, bankruptcies, and repossessions, a credit crunch, a collapse in the value of sterling, interest rates of 7% or more, rising taxes, growing social unrest etc
Let's see where Brown stands in the polls after that lot, most of which will be happening within 12 months. People will be screaming for his head.
Remember: it's the economy stupid.
Some people say the tories are media obsessed, others say they are not concerned enough about media coverage. Errrr...
What was Cameron supposed to do? Organise the emergency services? Build a levy? Start a line of buckets?
That would be at least a start in countering Browns media coup by merely being there.
Shotgun said...
Another tedious little posting from a guy who makes guns for Gods sake.That's got to get you thinking surely.Bloody man's a simpleton.
Thanks for that anonymong...any twat not willing to make himself known is okay by me.
Now are you the big nosed, labour cock sucking, bacon butty eating monkey fucker? Probably...the MO fits.
No its quite simple
All political partys are media obsessed. They would have to be terminally insane not to be. The media and the almost absolute power to manipulate the truth into any reality it wishes, is so important that it is in FACT more important then politics itself.
Which puts it well into the realms of almost the divine. (Which is why it all should be deregulated ASAP or you can all kiss goodby to freedom untill after the next very bloody world war. If we lose that is.)
You dont just have to get ON the media. Which for a Conservative is not only a bit difficult quite often, its very often dangerous to an MPs personal political prospects and useually counter-productive in any case.
The media have to like you and want you to do well or at least not hate you with a political passion that would melt trees from 500 yards, or you are a 'dead man walking'.
Talking of which. Have a heart for poor old David he simply cant win whatever he does or says now. It matters not one bit whether he may have been one of the greatest Conservative PM ever, including Thatcher. Because untill the media get off his back and gives him even a half fair chance it just ant going to happen.
The core of the British press which has mostly always been Fascist of one colour or another the BBC, Murdoch, Branson and a magority of the British people have all gone on an National Socialist love in together.
However people like myself would burn our membership cards in a heart beat if DC went down the Neo-Nazi rout even a tinny bit as far as New Labour have already long travelled.
He is, barring a miracle, ( or an economic collapse the type of which I would not wish on anyone or the BBC having a light on the road to Damascus event not seen since the 'real one'. Which did not in fact happen because miracles simple do not under any conditions actually take place ever. However many times someone somewhere at sometime told some group of halfwitts though somekind of mass media that they do and or did, at least when Jesus or his dad was about anyway)BUGGERED and so are we all.
Have a nice week everyone.
Cameron and the Conservative Party are giving a master class in how to lose an election and disband a party.
It's no wonder that after a decade the Conservatives appear no nearer government. Some of their MPS are downright disloyal and would rather be in UKIP; some are ambitious and thwarted individuals who want to be in the Labour Party; the rest are just totally comatose.
The leader would rather fight liberal causes that have no resonance with his natural supporters and his ill advised trip to Rwanda in the height of the worst floods to hit large swathes of Central England in a century just highlights how completely out of touch he and his advisers are with his grass roots and I haven't even got on to policy yet !
Pity I had such great hopes ! It would seem that we are destined for another term under Labour which is now led by the frightful Broon ! God help us all !
But Who picked the shadow cabinet?
Not Call Me Dave surely?
Stop blaming the Crew.
CCHQ is nowadays staffed by people who have never won an election
Consistently Conservative !.
Ed Miliband's plan to make political parties charities so then can get tax advantaged funding is a good start - then we can have an Evangelical Protestant Party to replace the Corroded Conservatives
to the guy who complained about those in 25 Victoria Street interferring with constituencies. CCHQ moved from there months ago, so they could not have interferred with your constituency that much.
Unless of course you are not a Conservative, who would know the party moved to Millbank !
garypowell said...
No its quite simple
My God your boring.Unless you are a Labour Party supporter, and blogging undercover.If that's the case pet, carry on the good work canny lad.
Shotgun said...Thanks for that anonymong...any twat not willing to make himself known is okay by me.
Well that's a bloody relief then.
city trader said...
Most of us here in the City can see the writing on the wall.
Now tell the truth.When you say you work in the city,do you mean the local Tesco branch perhaps ?
Anonymous said...
Ken Clark may sell ciggies but he appeals to the broader mass of the working class.
Not to popular with folks dying from lung cancer you moron.
The appeal of Ken Clark is that he so evidently combines an excellent intellectual grasp of major issues with a "common touch" and sense of humour. I loathe the tobacco industry which deliberately suckered punters with the "low tar" lie for years and one of my grandfathers died of lung cancer but I would still vote for Ken Clark any day rather than the assorted flotsam and jetsam currently on offer.
PS is Gary Powell's refence to public shool boys a cut at Lord Levy?
Cassandra 10.33 AM
Lord Levy went to a Grammar school.
Cassandra said...one of my grandfathers died of lung cancer but I would still vote for Ken Clark.
How many of your relatives dying as result of using the product this man sells, will it take for you to think he may after all, not be the right person for the job.Grandfathers are pretty old anyway, so we'll let you have grandfathers.How about fathers and mothers ? Bit nearer to home when dad dies of a smoking related decease.Then when mum starts bringing up blood,time to think this man is doing bad things, and should have stopped many years ago.Does money mean that much to him ? Do you care about what he does ? Do you give a f*** about folk dying as a result of smoking? Ken has sense of humour you say,well that's alright then,as long as he has a sense of humour.
marquee mark said "Cameron should perhaps have publically appointed media-friendly Ed Vaizey as his Man-in-the-Flood-waters. They have adjoining constituencies, and Vaizey's contains Wallingford, which was also at risk of flooding."
Don't want to quibble but I live in that very place and a) Vaizey is a prize twat of the first order and b) Wally's World was and is in no danger of anything. We look gently at the river and understand that it is a normal level of flood given the amount of rain that has fallen. Yes, unusual for July but not unusual for this river around here. It happens mostly every year - not often as late as this, 'tis true. (Six feet lower, since you ask, than the highest I have seen. That's about a gazillion cubic metres more needed to get any socks wet here.)
Get to Tewksbury and interview people who are really in the doo-doo. Then ask Broon what has happened to the Environment Agency Flood Defence budget over the last decade?
Oh look! Here's a BBC story from June this year... "Flood defence schemes have been postponed due to government funding cutbacks, it is claimed."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6245116.stm
Do I foresee any of this happening? Do I bollocks.
On reflection, I think i recall some other "ratty" posting here. That was not he, that was me. Hereinafter "ratty2". Apologies.
Is it true that Flip and Flop have now fallen out about the Brown poll lead?
It's all very well to say "get the message across",but WHAT'S THE MESSAGE?
m/s Moore in the Mail says that if Dave gets upset he'll walk.If only!
Sock 10:09am - there are no actual Tesco branches in the City (i.e. EC2/EC3 + parts of EC1/4). However there are quite a few Tesco Metros. A small point, but a key one, nonetheless, I think you will agree.
You are getting the traffic now Guido, that Iain Dale is being renamed DOWDY STREET. What a boring blog is is Dales Diary, getting often less than 12 blogs per post,clearly from bona fide hand chosen supporters. Too much censoring. Bet the advertisers will not be happy that his traffic is down.
He is taking a leaf out of UK POLLING which is all but a statistical load of boring claptrap.
Homos in CCHQ are ze problem. Too many jerks jerking with each other with no energy left to offer Dave. Too much lunchtime boozing and fraternising, rather than concentrating on the task at hand. Too much planning on how to take over the world. Before any of you accussee me of Homophobiatic attacks, just think I am only passing an opinion caus I cud have sed all Ze Tory Ladies or Boys or Gentlemen.
One reason why the Tories were so successful under Margaret Thatcher was that they and their supporters were driven by a deep hatred for the forces of conservatism, i.e. the Labour party and the trade unions. The present bunch do not despise Blair, Brown and Co as they deserve to be despised.
The Bernie Ecclestone business was utterly contemptible. The way Alistair Campbell was allowed to behave was utterly contemptible. This European treaty business is utterly contemptible. We could all give fifty more examples. The list goes on and on.
Where is the statesman who will say, loud and clear, "J'accuse!"
"He has broad national appeal" says Billy Hague of Dave.When even the Yorkshire boys are losing the plot real trouble is only just around the corner.
Trumpeter Lanfried said...Where is the statesman who will say, loud and clear, "J'accuse!"
He has arrived,and his name is Gordon.The voters accept he is a change for the better.Pity the guy was not in charge from the start.
Anonymous said...
It's all very well to say "get the message across",but WHAT'S THE MESSAGE?
It's obvious silly fellow surely.Vote Labour.
Until Cameron and his merry band realise that those most likely to vote Conservative aren’t swayed by squiggly-tree logos, bike-riding and Rwandan trips but by clear, distinct policy then we’re fucked.
sockpuppet....
FYI I work for Goldman Sachs and if you can't see the writing on the wall regarding this Ponzi economy then I suggest you take your finger out of your arse and put your brain into gear.
Trumpeter Lanfried said...
".........The Bernie Ecclestone business was utterly contemptible......"
The Conservatives under John Major accepted a similar donation from Bernie Ecclestone. Were they equally contemptible?
Yes, sadly - with a few exceptions (Grayling and Davis for example), this lot seem to have no fire in their bellies. The trouble is that although they got wiped out in 1997 and in every election since, most Tory MPs seem to think that opposition is just a temporary phase which will pass and so they sit back and hoover up the freebies...Wimbledon, Glastonbury, foreign trips and take expensive lunches off journalists and lobbyists which they use to crap all over their colleagues. I speak as a very loyal Tory...but my patience is getting very thin and this lot will NEVER form a government while they behave like this. Frankly, I would sack 95% of the shadow cabinet and a lot of the backbench too and get some people who know what oppostion means (if any of you lot are reading...it means that you are supposed to OPPOSE. Geddit??!)
GARY POWELL YOU ARE MY HERO!
The problem with the Conservative is that they are no different from the rest of them, career politicians who I wouldnt trust to remove the clinkers from my dogs arse who believe in nothing other than their lust for imagined power and glory.
city trader said...
sockpuppet....
FYI I work for Goldman Sachs
Fibber.
and it can be worse in local government -unlike the other tory gains in london, harrow elected in a new conservative council only to see taxes up, charges up, debts up, and road cleaning cuts. Harrow is now like the Peoples' Republic of Hackney in the bad days.
A harrow tax payer
I think you will find Hague was on party business in the US during the Zimbabwe debate, anyway the convention is that if Miliband is not talking then Hague should not.
Perhaps guido should get himself out of the bar and go and help?
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