That was your job, mate.
Yesterday's slightly surreal events made me feel almost nostalgic for the days when senior Labour figures simply resorted to using their fists with the voters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_GLHsq_8KU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_GLHsq_8KU
Yesterday’s coverage of Brown’s terrible faux pas with Mrs Duffy in Rochdale, appeared to have been scripted by Armando Ianucci for an election special recording of the ‘Thick of It.’
Gordon could have done with Malcolm Tucker yesterday. But he could not spin his way back, there was no squaring the circle. And he was totally wrong about it being a “disastrous” encounter. He did very well to bring her back on board as a Labour voter before then privately insulting her. The point Mrs Duffy made about immigration showed some frustration and narrow-mindedness but that does not add up to bigotry.
The worst point of the car-crash coverage was immediately after Mrs Duffy eye-popping amazement about what had been said about her. She wandered restlessly, bewildered , talking herself “Voted Labour all my life…” choking with anger.
As far as electoral impact goes, I wouldn’t expect a collapse in Labour support just yet. However neither is there much prospect of a 3-4 point bounce. The height of Labour’s ambitions should now be just 30% which means they are certainly odds against (again) to be the largest party.
I heard someone say, the “papers will have a field day.” Clearly they haven’t read as many papers as me, but then again few people do. The triumvirate of hate, the Mail, Telegraph and Sun were unable to ratchet up their coverage, as they had long since reached a ‘10’ on the hysterical scale and had nowhere left to go.
The Mail tried by Stepehen Glover’s column ‘If this woman’s a bigot, then I’m happy, no honoured, to be a bigot too, and so all of us should.’ Well a nation of bigots would only buy the Mail surely?
So for tonight’s debates, God knows how he’ll be handling this one. Presumably Cameron will declare with great dignity to call it irrelevant and then make several snide references to it.
For Brown, it will be a relief to stop apologising for an hour or two. But the credibility he has earned in the campaign for tenacity and doggedness has been blown.
Gordon could have done with Malcolm Tucker yesterday. But he could not spin his way back, there was no squaring the circle. And he was totally wrong about it being a “disastrous” encounter. He did very well to bring her back on board as a Labour voter before then privately insulting her. The point Mrs Duffy made about immigration showed some frustration and narrow-mindedness but that does not add up to bigotry.
The worst point of the car-crash coverage was immediately after Mrs Duffy eye-popping amazement about what had been said about her. She wandered restlessly, bewildered , talking herself “Voted Labour all my life…” choking with anger.
As far as electoral impact goes, I wouldn’t expect a collapse in Labour support just yet. However neither is there much prospect of a 3-4 point bounce. The height of Labour’s ambitions should now be just 30% which means they are certainly odds against (again) to be the largest party.
I heard someone say, the “papers will have a field day.” Clearly they haven’t read as many papers as me, but then again few people do. The triumvirate of hate, the Mail, Telegraph and Sun were unable to ratchet up their coverage, as they had long since reached a ‘10’ on the hysterical scale and had nowhere left to go.
The Mail tried by Stepehen Glover’s column ‘If this woman’s a bigot, then I’m happy, no honoured, to be a bigot too, and so all of us should.’ Well a nation of bigots would only buy the Mail surely?
So for tonight’s debates, God knows how he’ll be handling this one. Presumably Cameron will declare with great dignity to call it irrelevant and then make several snide references to it.
For Brown, it will be a relief to stop apologising for an hour or two. But the credibility he has earned in the campaign for tenacity and doggedness has been blown.
It’s very hard to work through any scenario which places Gordy as PM in ten day’s time.
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