[again]
Iain Dale must have been wincing when he wrote…
I leave Blackpool more optimistic about the future than I have been for a long time. Gordon Brown will know the Tory Party is back - and back with a vengeance. Brown has a real dilemma now. If he calls an election he loses, and if he doesn’t call an election he loses.
Oh come on Iain, you know one speech doth not make a Prime Minister. You read the polls, the people just don’t like Slippery Dave. And one Steve Jobs-style keynote isn’t going to change their opinion.
I think many of the Tory faithful are making the same mistake all politicos make. They get excited about insider political stories and don’t realise the country at large is busy doing something else. Rather than lionising DC because he managed a speech without Autocue, they ought to be worrying about why he doesn’t connect with the electorate at large.
I’ve watched far too much poker to be taken in by the Tory election confidence, they’re bricking it.
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LOL. We’ll see.
We shall. Maybe a little wager would make things more interesting?
I would love to see a nice large red rosette, the day after the election, over on Iain Dale’s Diary…
Okay, realistically we’re not going to win though. Especially since the Tories have mastered the art of unscripted speech. Don’t quite know how they’ve done it, but the Tories have stolen a march on us this time.
[Translation: Front is a temporary thing at the best of times, Iain.]
As Ruth Kelly aptly said on Question Time last night, Cameron should be careful what he wishes for.
If Brown calls his bluff (and it is a bluff) Cameron’s indigant faux demands for an election are sure to bite him in the bum.
I’m not sniggering though - really.