Small wonder Lord ‘Nige’ Lawson failed to receive an invitation to the Conservative’s press conference on the environment yesterday.
Nigel ‘Biscuit Barrel” Lawson is such a huge denier of global warming he makes Dick Cheney look like Jonathan Porritt.
Naturally, the Cons glossed over the deep schism in their party over green taxes and blithely barked out obnoxious slogans like ‘Vote Blue, Get Green not Brown'. Pitiful stuff which would not get much of a mark at GCSE Politics.
Dave’s strategy grid obviously includes a box saying, “Spend at least one morning wooing the Liberals, or whatever they’re called.” He began his press conference in a familiar patronising tone, forcing himself to overcome, “the vague whiff of nut cutlet,” as historian Peter Hennessy put it.
“Today, I want to speak to people who have progressive ideals hard-wired into their DNA,” he implored. In his mechanical ‘reaching-out’ exercise, on Osborne’s orders, Cams seems to have forgotten his party has been haemorrhaging support to Clegg and Co. since the first TV debate. The fact that even more Labour supporters are going that way is far from compensation.
The polls seem stuck on 33/30/28 (C/LD/L) which would mean Cons not even the largest party and worst of all unmoved from 2005. Labour has had Iraq, a deep recession and near civil war but five years of Dave’s charm offensive and Ashcroft's millions has got the Tories precisely nowhere.
Any remote aspiration Cameron had to recruit at least one Lib-Dem voter to his side was dashed when he made a fierce attack on proportional representation. He might as well have insulted their mothers. Saying a hung Parliament would cost each family £1,000 is patent nonsense.
He was not persuasive, not remotely. Marina Hyde of the Guardian called it, “marginally more charming than Rohypnol.” He was probably as successful as the borderline bigot Ross Perot’s very uncomfortable address to the NAACP in the 1992 Presidential election when he kept pointing at the crowd saying, “you people.”
Dave and George appear to have similar electoral philosophy – stay arrogant and the little people will soon fall into line. No sign of it working yet.
Naturally, the Cons glossed over the deep schism in their party over green taxes and blithely barked out obnoxious slogans like ‘Vote Blue, Get Green not Brown'. Pitiful stuff which would not get much of a mark at GCSE Politics.
Dave’s strategy grid obviously includes a box saying, “Spend at least one morning wooing the Liberals, or whatever they’re called.” He began his press conference in a familiar patronising tone, forcing himself to overcome, “the vague whiff of nut cutlet,” as historian Peter Hennessy put it.
“Today, I want to speak to people who have progressive ideals hard-wired into their DNA,” he implored. In his mechanical ‘reaching-out’ exercise, on Osborne’s orders, Cams seems to have forgotten his party has been haemorrhaging support to Clegg and Co. since the first TV debate. The fact that even more Labour supporters are going that way is far from compensation.
The polls seem stuck on 33/30/28 (C/LD/L) which would mean Cons not even the largest party and worst of all unmoved from 2005. Labour has had Iraq, a deep recession and near civil war but five years of Dave’s charm offensive and Ashcroft's millions has got the Tories precisely nowhere.
Any remote aspiration Cameron had to recruit at least one Lib-Dem voter to his side was dashed when he made a fierce attack on proportional representation. He might as well have insulted their mothers. Saying a hung Parliament would cost each family £1,000 is patent nonsense.
He was not persuasive, not remotely. Marina Hyde of the Guardian called it, “marginally more charming than Rohypnol.” He was probably as successful as the borderline bigot Ross Perot’s very uncomfortable address to the NAACP in the 1992 Presidential election when he kept pointing at the crowd saying, “you people.”
Dave and George appear to have similar electoral philosophy – stay arrogant and the little people will soon fall into line. No sign of it working yet.
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