Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Those Poll Results

David Cameron, responding to relatively poor poll ratings* for his increasingly pointless party:
"They don't hand general election victories and governments on a plate to people in this country, and quite right too," he said. "I know how important it is that we recognise this election was always going to be close. This election was always going to be a real fight for our party, a fight to make sure we serve the country we love, and that's the fight we're going to have."
Sure, Davey C. Sure. You need to have a fight. Well get a grip and fucking start fighting, then.

This has always been the Tories' election to lose. And guess what? They are starting to lose it. Which is pathetic, really. A dump in a carrier bag should be able to oust Gordon Brown. The fact that the Tories are starting to struggle is a damning indictment of the current leadership.

And - crucially - it is a damning indictment of the Tory leadership's failure to lead. Both myself and many, many others have consistently criticised Cameron for failing to say what he stands for. And guess what? We were right. Labour - for all of their flaws (and they have a lot of flaws) - actually explain what they stand for. Sure, what they stand for is essentially not worth hearing about, but unless the public is presented with an alternative, the party that says something is likely to triumph over the party that says nothing.

Fucking hell, it isn't even the case that Cameron has to say something original or brilliant. As long as he doesn't say that he wants to punch old women in the bladder, he can say what he likes. But his failure to position himself at all on pretty much anything means that people forget he exists, and he is incapable of grabbing the media spotlight. Since the New Year, Cameron has increasingly resembled (God help him) Nick Clegg. And whatever strengths Clegg might have**, no-one sees him as a future Prime Minister.

I don't give a fuck who wins the next election, but Cameron does. And the buck stops with him. The first Tory victory for nearly 20 years is right in front of him, within his reach. But only if he doesn't allow the petrified indolence that has characterised his leadership thus far to dominate the way the fights the general election. Brown may not be a clunking fist, but if Cameron goes into the General Election with both hands tied behind his back for no reason, Brown will manage to land some punches. And possibly enough to see a minority Labour government returned to power.

*They are still in the lead, just less so that before. There is the temptation to paint these sort of poll results as a disaster, but the reality is there are rogue poll results and poll results are not indicative of how people will actually vote. Nonetheless, given the state of the incumbent government, the Tories should be pissing over the rancid corpse of the Labour Party, rather than fighting the persistently aggressive zombie headed by Gordon Brown.
**Answers on a postcard, please. Because I really don't know what the fuck they are.

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3 Comments:

At 10:17 am , Blogger cheeky chappy said...

The problem is that no political party has any backbone anymore, no morales, no honesty. Also, as every main stream party is trying to win the centre ground, they can't say what they stand for, because being centralist means you stand for everything and nothing. Trying to be all things to all people means you can't have clear direction because in order to do that you automatically alienate one section of potential voters.

All politicians want is power, they don't care what they have to say to get it. That's why we are in such a mess.

 
At 10:51 am , Blogger cheeky chappy said...

Hi NL, just read this, and hoped you might do a blog on it, it's absolutely disgusting and totally horrifying. This is the kind of mentality you get from the BNP.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-mayor/article-23470426-women-more-troubled-by-bag-theft-than-rape-bnp-candidate-claims.do

People need to be made aware of this kind of evil.

 
At 10:58 am , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here we are, not three months away from the polling booth and Cameron still keeps his light behind a bush.

Has he got a light? Joe public thinks not and as such Brown might just be a reasonable alternative.

Fuck me, another four years of Brown and the exchange rate in such a piss poor state that emigration is no longer an option.

This really is worse than the dying days of Callaghan and then we at least had the promise of the North sea oil and gas bonanza, even if most of us didn't really think it was going to happen.

I will just make sure I, for my part, was in no way compicit in the complete trashing of this country, by not voting for any of the three main fraudsters.

What a fucking mess.

 

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