Saturday, 26 July 2008
Saturday, 31 May 2008
Labour Polls The Lowest Since British Polling Began
The latest polls have Labour at the lowest ever recorded since polling began in 1943 and Gordon Brown is the most unpopular PM in history, he is polling worse than even Neil Kinnock or Michael Foot! How must it feel to be the most hated Prime Minister of all time?
SRJ likes to remind all those Labour lemmings, like Tom Watson, who plotted and worked to get Blair out and Brown in, that we told you so. So here is a reminder, again:
SRJ likes to remind all those Labour lemmings, like Tom Watson, who plotted and worked to get Blair out and Brown in, that we told you so. So here is a reminder, again:
John Hutton didn't mince his words when he gave Nick Robinson his prediction. He was right.
Thursday, 29 May 2008
Jonah Brown Calls for Lower Oil Prices
This lunchtime Gordon made his call for increased oil production by OPEC and North Sea Oil producers. How did the market react? Above is today's price chart, notice the move beginning just after Gordon's midday rant at the market.
You guessed it - oil rose over 4 bucks...
Saturday, 24 May 2008
Gordon will take the dangerous lurch to the left
The Labour Left Looms
The hard left of the Labour Party reckons the answer to voter disenchantment is to abandon the centre and turn back to the bad bad old ways. The weak and manically deranged Gordon makes it more likely that lurch to the left will take place.Paul Mason, Newsnight's editor, could barely contain his excitement last night reporting the prospect of a bruised Brown introducing higher taxes on high earners, windfall corporate taxes and the expected soon to be announced "equality agenda" - in other words leveling down.
This will be kamikaze left-wing stuff. Britain is already sliding down the economic competitiveness league, the Irish are welcoming FTSE 100 companies making the exodus from HMRC's demands.
Manic Gordon will now be weighing up a shift leftwards, to shore up his position within the party, giving some red meat to the activists and pundits like Polly Toynbee. It will be a change of policy direction based entirely on self -preservation.
What a git we have in Gordon.
He could survive the party conference whatever the polls by promising a left-wing lurch...
Friday, 23 May 2008
Gordon Can't Be the Change Voters Want
It was the worst night possible for Gordon. The election was directed by him, it used "tough on toffs" tactics approved by him and dog-whistle issues designed to get out the vote. It failed.
Failed spectacularly - Labour areas did not get out to vote they stayed at home, resulting in a 17% net swing to the Tories. What Guido would describe as the "Maguire Manifesto" was tried out in Crewe. Just as Kevin Maguire talks down to his Mirror readers about "Tory toffs" and tries to divide "them and us" on a class basis, Labour tried to motivate the core vote with an appeal that is just dated. Even if it was as they now claim an attempt to inject humour into the campaign, the time for potent class based politics is past, most people in the twenty-first century perceive themselves as middle class. Using the language and imagery of the Beano's Lord Snooty might appeal to kids, but voters know when they are being patronised. That strategy has now been tested to destruction against Boris and Timpson, it won't work against Cameron either. So what apppeal can Gordon offer voters?The tipping pint is now past, Labour is tired and has run out of ideas and public support. There is nothing they can do in government to turn that around. Taking policies from their opponents won't work. Gordon is a big part of the problem, he can't be the face of the change the voters want. The choice facing Labour now is to lose a general election catastrophically under Gordon, or find a more appealing fresher face like Miliband, Purnell or Johnson and lose by a lesser margin. If they lose catastrophically the party could swing to the left after a general election to Cruddas or McDonnell - condemning them to decades of opposition.
The Labour Left is blaming New Labour policies and pushing for a leftward shift. The younger heirs to Blair know this, they may not want to take the helm now, however if they don't, the Labour Party might be finished off by the left-wing. Gordon is on course to destroy New Labour as an electoral force...
Thanks to guido www.order-order.com for this contribution
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Will Friday bring out the men in suits?
SRJ has been asking around his Labour Party sources and picking up from other well known blogs ( Guido for one ). Nobody has any knowledge of a planned Milburn putsch - though one source said he would support one. The difficulty in a candidate getting 71 nominations from the PLP is irrelevant, the rules state that a challenge had to be in place in April for the party conference. Guido's Sage of the Handbook says it doesn't really matter about the rules. If a significant number of Labour MPs told Brown to go, he would have to go. If only people like Milburn, Clarke, Hoey or McDonnell say it, he can weather it.
The sage thought that if only a handful of members of the cabinet were to tell Brown to his face that he had to go for the sake of the party that would be that. Jack Straw would be the man deputised to do the job. Brown has been a disaster for the Labour Party, he can't be the change he promised, he is clearly physically and politically exhausted. Will Jack be the one to put him out of his misery on Friday?
Monday, 19 May 2008
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Where's Gordon's Courage and Leadership?
Whenever New Labour were in trouble Tony Blair would lead from the front, whatever you may say about him, he never feared to open the batting however sticky the wicket.When New Labour were first elected Tony Blair risked campaigning during the Uxbridge by-election in May 1997. Blair led from the front even though the Tories were sure to hold the seat. Gordon, author of two books on courage, has ordered 80 ministers and SpAds to go to Crewe and Nantwich this weekend to campaign. He however plans to stay well away chewing his nails.
Gordon avoids elections wherever possible, he chickened out of a contest with Blair for the leadership in 1994, he engineered a coronation unopposed for the party leadership in July 2007 and he bottled holding a mandate producing election in October 2007. Nobody has cast a single vote for him to lead his party or his country.
Gordon is a truly pathetic figure, on Friday morning Labour will have to face up to their mistake. If they can't win Crewe, where they are testing to destruction the "don't vote for a toff" approach - "tough on toffs, tough on the causes of toffs" - backed-up by illiberal knuckle dragging dog-whistle policies, they can't win nationally with Brown. Crewe is 165th on the list of Tory target seats... that should concentrate the minds of 164 Labour MPs...(from Guido www.order-order.com )
Saturday, 17 May 2008
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Is Gordon hiding from the headlines?
Tell us what you think Gordon is doing here?
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By the way Gordon-
Just because you can't
see them doesn't mean
that they are not
out to get you.
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