A big mouth or a calculated Tory move for the BNP vote?

Posted on September 30, 2007 by bobpiper

Sayeeeda Warsi, former special adviser to Michael Howard on Community Relations (are you thinking what I’m thinking) has done what the Tories so often do when they are backed in to a corner. On Andrew Marr’s programme this morning Cameron was squirming in his silk boxers when confronted with this.
Warsi said in her (unsuccessful) election material in 2005 that lowering the age of consent from 18 to 16 for homosexuality was “allowing schoolchildren to be propositioned for homosexual relationships”. She later said, “I look back at lots of my election leaflets and think, ‘God – why did I phrase it like that? What was I on?”
Good question.

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3 Responses to A big mouth or a calculated Tory move for the BNP vote?

  1. jailhouselawyer says:
    September 30, 2007 at 11:07 am

    I didn’t catch all of the Andrew Marr interview with David Cameron this morning. Although I did catch the bit where he put Cameron on the spot about the fight back “Well you must be behind if you are fighting back?”.
    DC: “Waffle, waffle”.
    AM: “Well, if you are not going to accept that you are behind in the polls…”.
    DC: “Waffle, waffle”.

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  2. Mick Davies says:
    October 1, 2007 at 11:25 am

    According to the Telegraph Bob, ‘her transparent honesty is beguiling.She is the 86th most influential right winger.

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  3. Stephen Newton says:
    October 1, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    This government consistently fails to stand up for what it apparently believes in and has failed to make the case not only for economic migrants, but more importantly for refugees.
    The so called wolf whistle campaign was a direct play for BNP sympathisers. Thatcher did it far less subtly in 1978 when the NF was strong and desperate Dave will inevitably tread the same path.

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