Comments on: Cameron: more than Maggie masquerading as Morrissey

By: Andrew Coates

Andrew Coates — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:20:24 +0000

Social Liberalism could be looked at a local level. It’s very much in evidence, though with a hard edge: Spikey Tories mix with the Fluffies.

Strange to say this was exactly on my mind over the weekend before I read this! Thus:

http://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/

By: BrightonGeoff

BrightonGeoff — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:23:13 +0000

It will be more of the same in all probability.

By: Richard Farnos

Richard Farnos — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:35:25 +0000

Quite frankyly I don’t see the difference. Maggie and Morrissey where what made the eighties so god damned depressing!

Oh and by the by I find the notion that the Conservatives are “at ease with multiculturalism” – do you read the Guardian? Or was this irony?

By: cityunslicker

cityunslicker — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:45:39 +0000

are millionaires the type of people you want running the economy in a recession?

Of course they are, look how well a Lawyer like Alistair Darling and a never had a job like Brown have done.

People who have made money tend to ‘get it.’

Success is a good criteria for promotion and vice versa.

By: Voltaire's Priest

Voltaire's Priest — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:00:08 +0000

Can’t actually see that flying either, given that Brown’s cabinet is hardly packed with working class heroes. Furthermore, affluence in and of itself isn’t widely seen as a guide to someone’s political views any more.

The truth is, there’s nothing much that can be done to rescue Labour, because it has already self-destructed by abandoning any semblance of political principle. The fact that liberal commentators are all raving about Brown’s “fightback” to ten points behind the Tories in the polls says it all. The LP are desperate, and their conference hasn’t made a blind bit of difference.

Unless the Tories implode this week, or Cameron is found rogering a goat on Broad Street, they’ll come out on Friday with a conference bounce of their own. That’ll put Labour back 15-20 points behind, just in time for them to lose the next by-election.

Sorry folks, the Party’s over.

By: Charlie Marks

Charlie Marks — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:40:16 +0000

Given that Morrissey is militantly veggie, a republican (both in the Irish and anti-monarchy senses) and sexually ambiguous…

It’s hardly what you think of when you see Cameron.

No, the attack on the Tories should be this:

Cameron’s shadow cabinet is packed with millionaires. Are these really the kind of people you want running the economy in a recession? Do they know what it’s like paying rising utility bills, coping with the mortgage, facing redundancy, etc.?

By: Bill Quango mp

Bill Quango mp — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:30:33 +0000

Times change and people change with them, as you so correctly perceive.

The Tories who voted for Blair, were the 18-24′s of their Thatcherite parents.

The Cameron voting Tories are the children of Blair.

So the Tories are Toffs slogan was the deeply dismal failure that the Demon eyes Blair was.

Deservedly so..neither struck a note with a modern electorate. And Brown’s constant harping back to event of 20 years ago to make his own failures excusable has been equally ineffective, as a cursory glance at any poll will show.

Look to Obama for inspiration. Its all about the future.

By: Culture Vulture

Culture Vulture — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:10:14 +0000

Dave

You are SO funny!

By: frenetic

frenetic — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:11:22 +0000

Dave, i do wonder sometimes if you are aware what is happening for those at the very bottom: with urging from IDS and Policy Exchange, Cameron has said he plans to do away with the welfare state as we understand it, stopping benefits completely in many cases and putting the onus on voluntary groups, charities. Now i know that is something Purnell is doing, but Camerons plans which he intends to implement in a big bang’ (or big cut) go much further.

By: Miles

Miles — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:41:23 +0000

Dave

As a Johnny Marr fan myself I think you are being a bit soft on Cazza.

And I wonder why you don’t call for “progressives” to join the Tory party to have some influence on the next government?

IN your analysis what is the difference between Conservative and Labour?