Labour just isn’t listening to the people...
Their campaign has been so controlled, those North Korean rallies look like random acts of chaos in comparison. Gordon needs to take a leaf out of the other two main candidates and talk to the people instead of ignoring them.
Thursday could well be an Annus Horriblis...
UPDATE, 18:00 – Nick Clegg has been heckled by what seems to be more than one voter during speaking in Malvern, Worcestershire. Interesting...
As much as it is catastrophically bad for Chairman Brown, I cannot help but feel sorry for him.
He was right in what he said privately. It was getting caught which has nailed him...
Evening all,
Bit of a odd day to be fair – which has had a massive dose of reality in the past few hours in the race to Number 10.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies – an independent think-tank has denounced all three main political parties for not being clear-cut in what cuts will need to enforced in the blood-letting that will follow the election.
Now, they have accused all three main parties ‑ and particularly Labour ‑ for failing to come clean over the scale of tax rises, welfare cuts and spending retrenchment necessary after the election. At last some home truths...
In an attack on the plans sketched out by Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, the Institute for Fiscal Studies also claimed the Tories were planning the sharpest spending cuts since the second world war, while the Labour and Lib Dem spending slowdowns amounted to the biggest retrenchment since the IMF crisis in the mid-1970s. Rationing anyone?
It does make the background for the final Leaders Debate in Birmingham on Thursday that little more fussy. On the same day as the IFS cam out with their damning verdicts on the parties’ economic plans – Greece's debt has been downgraded to junk status by rating agency Standard & Poor's amid concern it could not take steps to tackle its economic crisis. The high price of joining a one size, fits all economic junket...Greek debt has lower rating than Lebanon's. How fucking damning...
S&P said it was lowering its rating on Greece's debt to BB+ from BBB-. It also reducing Portugal's debt rating by two notches to A- as doubts intensified about countries with substantial debt relative to GDP. Ditto as above...seems like Sterling may not be the only currency facing a threat from the profiteers...
The markets are going to drop like a stone in the morning...
Good Morning,
This promises to be one of the most intriguing weeks in this country’s modern history – as we head towards the big electoral day on 6th May.
The last television debate happens on Thursday in Birmingham, something that I will not be watching as I have another curry night to attend in Dover at about that time – I get paid on Wednesday so probably this time next week, I’ll be all depressed with no money left. As per normal...
And as normal the Tories have been going on and on about the negatives of a hung parliament – on the thinking that any uncertainty politically will be seen as a gloomy sign for the city – fears that there might be an run on the pound, have so far proved to be just pie in the sky. The IMF have been mentioned by the same doom-mongers...
Still, it could be worse, we could be Greece...
Good evening,
Am feeling like I am in my own personal sauna in my bedroom as the temperature is threatening to hit 80°F – nowhere near the temperature that it must be in Chairman Brown’s head this evening following the fiasco that was the Elvis concert in Corby yesterday morning. Was a surreal sight that was...
Gordon seems to be having a major problem haemorrhaging votes if the latest polls are anything to go by. I see the latest YouGov daily poll released in the past hour shows that the Lib Dems are back in the 30% territory – whereas Labour are struggling to push over the 28%. That re-launch didn’t go according to plan...
However, the Lib Dems were saying this morning that they are beginning to look beyond May 6th and any possible coalition – stating that they would be more than likely talk to the Conservatives in the first instance, further insisting that Labour will have forfeited the right to govern if it comes third. Whoops, talk about opening a can of worms....
Could Clegg being a bit more upfront with his agenda, persuade those wavering voters on the Left, myself included from lending their vote to the Yellows, and put all of our fruits in the Labour basket?
Perhaps...
Location:So Who Won?
The Latest poll for YouGov and the S*n (via politicalbetting) is saying that the Liberal Democrats are heading for an unprecedented share of the vote of 33%. Now of course, with little over two weeks to the big day – polls such as these should be treated with the large dose of salt that politicians normally do treat them with.
But then, this is not the first poll to show such a lead as one for the Mail showed similar figures this morning.
Will it last?
Can’t help but notice Labour are dropping like a stone...
No doubt where the first debate went to this evening. Nick Clegg only needed to do as well as Cameron and Brown and I think there was some areas tonight where he actually did superior better than the two reprobates that he was taking on.
However, there is a instant poll done by Sky News that is saying giving Cameron victory with 53%, Clegg 28% with Chairman Brown on 19%.
The worry was that Brown would somewhat crash and burn but he didn’t – not a bad thing. The polls were always going to be bad for Chairman Brown purely because he is the incumbent so he has to work that bit harder.
Similarly with Cameron – because he has had so much more press time than Clegg and with more finances behind him meaning that he has got more support to help him – he had to perform and although he didn’t do anything bad – I get the sense that some people was expecting him to go for the jugular.
Never was going to happen that...
Round two is going to be very intriguing next week.
Hmmm.
Not exactly what Chairman Brown needs to be hearing this evening...
Good evening,
Well fuck me sideways, the big night is here and everyone cannot help themselves in predicting what on earth is going to come out of the first Leaders Debate, in Manchester.
I predict that Nick Clegg will probably win this first debate, whereas Messrs Brown and Cameron will get through it relatively unscathed.
I think they are more concerned about getting the satellites sorted out due to some ash falling out of the sky...
I see that the Shadow Homophobic Minister, Chris Grayling has been on the telly this evening to say that he does not think that Gay couples should be turned away from bed and breakfast establishments.
Which is contrary to what he said only a week. So what is the electorate supposed to think...
However he has said that he did once upon a time oppose Gay adoption...
Hmmm.
Sounds like the cunt is still living in the past...
Just when we all thought that the scandal regarding MPs expenses was going away from the headlines...
And as you can see in the video below, everyone just cannot help themselves in a getting a dig into the entire system...
Now it would be wholly inappropriate of me to suggest that that video is nothing short of full-scale electioneering...
But it is, if we remember what the Chancellor got up to...
Evening,
Having been at work today – I missed out on the fun and games surrounding the introduction of Labour’s manifesto.
And from what I gather it took the form of a North Korean style rally – with supporters heckling journalists in almost Mugabesque fashion. Hmmm.
And as for the cover of the Manifesto is well, um...something out of the 1920s...
In fact let compare and contrast...
Let’s be blunt these sort of tactics will not give Labour the level of support that is needed to get even the most seats on the big day.
Therefore – why not just go the fucking full wedge.
The question that needs to be answered this evening is whether Labour are willing to go for broke and tell it like it is. Admittedly that might mean having to tell some brutal home truths, but in the long run – the electorate might just respect them for it.
It’s all well and good trying to hide the shitty aspects of what is to come for the country over the coming 12 to 18 months – however it is safe to say that we are probably over the worse of the crap that has been thrown at us – but, they need to go for the jugular and take the fucking Tory cunts head-on. If it means using provocative class-war language from here on in, then so be it.
If it means losing some of the fucking wet, Middle England cunts that Blair and Mandelson went out of their way to appease in the past 13 years or so, then fuck them. Bring the party back to its roots. If they were to do that perhaps the Working Classes (and by that I mean those who are working, not those who are in the dole and benefit queues – that the client state) wouldn’t be deserting Labour in their droves.
It’s time to be thinking radical, to be thinking different, to be thinking Labour.
