An easy win against a piss-poor West Ham team and Gordon does us all a favour by a) winding up the media… b) scaring the Tories into revealing their policies and c) preventing us tramping the streets on cold autumn days.
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It has been obvious over the past few weeks that the media, lacking anything beter to do, decided we needed an election. Brown is not stupid, he let them run with it and then pulled the plug. Egg on faces all round. Maybe te media will now start reporting news and not inventing it.
a) winding up the media… – mmm smart move.
b) scaring the Tories into revealing their policies… oh dear everybody likes them
c) preventing us tramping the streets on cold autumn days… you lazy bum
Oh Bob come on. Having to have the PM explain why he’s NOT calling an election isn’t, well, it just isn’t Prime Ministerial.
The PM was all but convinced about calling it and has now been forced to back track. Can’t fault your West Ham comment mind you.
Have been backing June 2009 all along. Good sense from Gordon. Story has gone a bit potty around him. But in a week or two it will have settled.
Then all we will have is maverick Tory bloggers trying to remind people of their big yah boo.
The broad population will come to think:
“GB didn’t have to have an election for 30 months. He tested the water. Too unpredictable. So no poll. We didn’t want one anyway. What’s the problem? Are Tories going to start calling elections after 18 months of a term and when the tide is running against? We support Gordon. he’s not a memory man idiot like Dave or a tax conner like Gid.”
I quite like this quote from Charon QC, quoting Admiral Lord Nelson: “If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting”.
‘Scaring the Tories into revealing their policies’
Maybe. I don’t know about other folk, but I happen to think it is a good thing for an opposition party to reveal their policies. For all the time that the Conservative Party’s policies were kept hidden, a lot of respondents in opinion polls reacted negatively, saying that they ‘didn’t know what the party stood for’. Not any more. So Gordon Brown has actually done the Tories a favour.
The only thing is, will he pinch the Tories’ policies? He may, but then everyone will know exactly what he has done. Over the past few days, where Gordon Brown is concerned, the scales have fallen from the media’s (and the public’s) eyes. It is becoming a lot easier to see through his spin.
And even if he nicks and implements Tory policies, say on inheritance tax and stamp duty, I will at least be happy that hard-pressed taxpayers are getting the benefit of the tax cuts. Tax cuts that they probably would not have received if the Conservative Party hadn’t made the case for them.
So yes, the Tories have revealed some of their policies, but that is a good thing. It gives people an idea of what they intend to do in Government. That, at the very least, is what we expect from an opposition party.
Normal voters aren’t interested in politics you know, that is apart from the day before an election. Then we who vote do so, by voting for the same party we did last time. Gordon will then have five more years, and Cameron will be bald.
and yet it doesn’t feel like a victory… more like the biggest cock up in the history of big cock ups.
This is hilarious! A ‘good day’? You either have a very well developed sense of irony or you’re seriously deluded.
I’m more impressed with our win over West Ham. Not at our best really, and ran out of steam towards the end, but a win is a win …
I think Mike sums it up perfectly. If anyone imagines that the electorate will remember or care about the events of the last few weeks in two years time they are seriously deluding themselves. I think it was a good day not because I think Labour would have lost the election, but because I could see no valid reason for fighting one other than a cynical exploitation of being in front in the polls.
The truth is many people just dont care. The clap trap from the Tories saying the country is on its knees is laughable.
The Tories once again have policies that favour the rich and will punish the poor.
I never heard GB mention an election and I never thought he would.
Camo man said when GB took over that he had no mandate. When there was a suggestion from the press! that he would go to the country Camo Man said the country didnt vote for 18 months of Labour. Then Camo Man changed his mind again and again. Not much said about that.
That pupil he mentioned at the Tory tea party was infact the Shadow Chancellor! The biggest lick arse in town.
You really are deluded. Still, given the appalling mess your man has got you into, I’d not be keen to face reality either. Have you read Polly Toynbee in the Grauniad today? One of many highlighting the intellectual bankruptcy of your policies and the destroyed authority of the PM.