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Friday, May 04, 2007
Quote of the Day
"Ming Campbell is trying his best not to look shell-shocked. Truth is, the Tory "love bomb" deployed on LibDem voters actually detonated." Fraser Nelson, The Spectator.
17 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Sounds like someone needs to pass them the tissues...
looking at the results in Scotland. So far no women elected for the Liberal democrats and it looks like they're all white middle-aged men. And of course there's nothing wrong with white middle aged men, but doesn't ming have some kind of commitment to equal opportunities?
It sure takes a weird mind to say that a Party that is taking control of more and more councils and has made more than 500 cllr gains is going nowhere!
Have you forgotten to take your tablets today, anonymous/4.16?
Interesting comment from anonymous that the Tories need 45% to win a GE. I don't actually think they even need 40%. Going nowhere? Well, they are certainly going to be somewhere rather better than where they are now. And by the way, the Tories look to be going to make gains of something like 800 councillors. Before this, eceryone was saying that 600 would be excellent. Even the BBC said it. Of course, when it appeared it would be more they rapidly back pedalled
anonymous 4:08 - Ever consider that women and blacks and muslims did have an equal opportunity, but couldn't qualify?
I want the Tories to lose the GE because Dave's a patronising arsehole who takes/took drugs, capitalises on his disabled kid, doesn't have an idea in his twizzly little pr brain and is a patronising bore.
One more election loss and they will be forced to reform into a party that people will be eager to vote for - not NuLabour Lite.
After a fourth term in office Labour will be terminally on the ropes, finished as a viable party and the Tories will have reformed as a strong new party. The Reform Party would not be a bad name.
A huge, dramatic change is needed on the British political landscape, one that boldly addresses the problems of today, without constantly relating them back to the problems of the last century. These will include freeing ourselves of the dead hand of the EU. Repatriation of hundreds of thousands, or millions, of "immigrants" (including citizens of EU countries who would no longer be entitled to settle). Included would be the coup de grace to the NHS and the development of universal private health care. An overhaul of the criminal justice system and the unpicking of the HRA and all the EU legislation that has so damaged our civil society. The education system to be ripped out of the clutching hands of the national government. Elected police chiefs. Merciless pruning of the welfare system. Overhaul of the prison system and the criminal justice system to reflect the desire of population, not the socialist one-worlders.
The Tories don't have the bottle. But slowly, they will stir and eventually find their nerve after the next electoral defeat, and they will reform.
Sorry to be so negative, but all these fancy little cosmetic changes and bells and whistles are not what the electorate wants, and that they are being presented with such watered down, inadquate policies is an insult.
This result is bad for the real Tories as it reingforces 'Dave' and his 'leadershp' when actually clearsighted people can recognise him as a vacuous, spin-powered middle-manager who wouldn't know vision and conviction if they hit him in the face. This result is like the foolish virgins on the TV property development makeover shows who realise a fat profit because the market has moved and they would have made money just sitting on their fat asses. Given the trouble that Labbour is in anyway with the electorate (hurrah), the Tories would have made significant gains if Cameron and his blank-faced minions had done nothing at all. The man is a disaster and does not further the true conservative cause.
On the other hand it's a good day for millions of Council-tax payers up and down the country who have wrested control of their so-called local 'authorities' (they have no authority actually, as any fule kno) from Nu-Lab and the dreaded Flib-Doms.
And its a mixed blessing in Scotland - good that the skids are now under the doomed labour 'adminsitration' in their toytown 'parliament' but bad in that the Salmon is pursuing a kamikaze agenda that will damage the whole of the United kingdom. To those who inhabit 'Holyrood' I say this: think about the three hundred MILLION quid, every penny of it ground from the face of the poor Scottish electorate, every penny of which could have been far better used (or better still, not spent at all), every penny of it wasted on a monument to Dewar and Blair's devolution folly. Everyone elected to that body, every drone who works there should hang their heads in shame every time they pass its portals.
When I saw Ming in Eastbourne, I thought he had retired. Perhaps the electorate were giving him a message. Shame, he was great for Labour and the Tories
17 comments:
Sounds like someone needs to pass them the tissues...
looking at the results in Scotland. So far no women elected for the Liberal democrats and it looks like they're all white middle-aged men. And of course there's nothing wrong with white middle aged men, but doesn't ming have some kind of commitment to equal opportunities?
WOO HOO!!!
Just announced - Tory share drops from 41% to 40%.
GOING NOWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It sure takes a weird mind to say that a Party that is taking control of more and more councils and has made more than 500 cllr gains is going nowhere!
Have you forgotten to take your tablets today, anonymous/4.16?
judith
They need to be at least 45% now in order to win the GE. They're GOING NOWHERE!!!!!!!!!
Seeing as the SNP now as 40 seats in Holyrood with 23 seats still undeclared, the LibDems now need to rethink the coaltion.
Anonymong 4:16 & 4:27
Your grasp of reality is a somewhat lacking, 750+ gains is not “nowhere” the less deluded would admit it is “upward”.
Well the earth moved in Woking and opened beneath the Lib Dems in Waverley ;-)
Interesting comment from anonymous that the Tories need 45% to win a GE. I don't actually think they even need 40%. Going nowhere? Well, they are certainly going to be somewhere rather better than where they are now.
And by the way, the Tories look to be going to make gains of something like 800 councillors. Before this, eceryone was saying that 600 would be excellent. Even the BBC said it. Of course, when it appeared it would be more they rapidly back pedalled
FINAL RESULT
Labour 26
Plaid 15
Tory 12
Lib Dem 6
Indie 1
nos da!
anonymous 4:08 - Ever consider that women and blacks and muslims did have an equal opportunity, but couldn't qualify?
I want the Tories to lose the GE because Dave's a patronising arsehole who takes/took drugs, capitalises on his disabled kid, doesn't have an idea in his twizzly little pr brain and is a patronising bore.
One more election loss and they will be forced to reform into a party that people will be eager to vote for - not NuLabour Lite.
After a fourth term in office Labour will be terminally on the ropes, finished as a viable party and the Tories will have reformed as a strong new party. The Reform Party would not be a bad name.
A huge, dramatic change is needed on the British political landscape, one that boldly addresses the problems of today, without constantly relating them back to the problems of the last century. These will include freeing ourselves of the dead hand of the EU. Repatriation of hundreds of thousands, or millions, of "immigrants" (including citizens of EU countries who would no longer be entitled to settle). Included would be the coup de grace to the NHS and the development of universal private health care. An overhaul of the criminal justice system and the unpicking of the HRA and all the EU legislation that has so damaged our civil society. The education system to be ripped out of the clutching hands of the national government. Elected police chiefs. Merciless pruning of the welfare system. Overhaul of the prison system and the criminal justice system to reflect the desire of population, not the socialist one-worlders.
The Tories don't have the bottle. But slowly, they will stir and eventually find their nerve after the next electoral defeat, and they will reform.
Sorry to be so negative, but all these fancy little cosmetic changes and bells and whistles are not what the electorate wants, and that they are being presented with such watered down, inadquate policies is an insult.
dropperd from 41.01 to 40.99 knowing the BBC
>800 now.
The 40% is the BBC projection, personally I'd like to wait to see the actual numbers, don't think Math is one of their strong points.
This result is bad for the real Tories as it reingforces 'Dave' and his 'leadershp' when actually clearsighted people can recognise him as a vacuous, spin-powered middle-manager who wouldn't know vision and conviction if they hit him in the face. This result is like the foolish virgins on the TV property development makeover shows who realise a fat profit because the market has moved and they would have made money just sitting on their fat asses. Given the trouble that Labbour is in anyway with the electorate (hurrah), the Tories would have made significant gains if Cameron and his blank-faced minions had done nothing at all. The man is a disaster and does not further the true conservative cause.
On the other hand it's a good day for millions of Council-tax payers up and down the country who have wrested control of their so-called local 'authorities' (they have no authority actually, as any fule kno) from Nu-Lab and the dreaded Flib-Doms.
And its a mixed blessing in Scotland - good that the skids are now under the doomed labour 'adminsitration' in their toytown 'parliament' but bad in that the Salmon is pursuing a kamikaze agenda that will damage the whole of the United kingdom. To those who inhabit 'Holyrood' I say this: think about the three hundred MILLION quid, every penny of it ground from the face of the poor Scottish electorate, every penny of which could have been far better used (or better still, not spent at all), every penny of it wasted on a monument to Dewar and Blair's devolution folly. Everyone elected to that body, every drone who works there should hang their heads in shame every time they pass its portals.
Colin - Good post!
Describing Dave: "a vacuous, spin-powered middle-manager". Couldn't have phrased it more succinctly meself.
The guy gives me the creeps.
When I saw Ming in Eastbourne, I thought he had retired. Perhaps the electorate were giving him a message. Shame, he was great for Labour and the Tories
Not in Manchester. The Blue Green thing did not wash in the smartest city in the world.
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