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David Cameron, leader of the Conservative party, looks set to win the next election. He will do so largely because Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are about as popular as lepers with swine flu. I think he will win not because he is popular - but because Labour is very unpopular. People won't be voting for him, they'll be voting against Labour.
And he has, rather intelligently, played to this. He has desperately avoided having to say anything that in any way may be construed as a policy. Or a concrete position in anything but the vaguest terms. He confines himself to vague feel-good terms that don't mean much of anything - but damn if they don't sound nice. But there is a problem.
I'm sorry to tell you this, David. But there are Conservatives behind you. And if anyone can screw it up, they can.
See, you're like a Care Bear, out there spreading peace and light and a message of twu love and hope and fellowship. But behind you is a big wave of vampires and ogres that want to drain our blood and crunch our bones. They're turning your words into a paraody.
You try to reach out to the gay community - and the party votes overwhelmingly against any pro-gay legislation (but, hey, so did you so you can't complain). Then your party affiliates with some of the most open and virulent homophobes in Europe - AND CEDES CONTROL of the coalition to them! Then to add a bit more fury, Tory MEP Roger Helmer would like to tell us that homophobia doesn't actually exist. Hmmm... thanks for that
You try to be hard on the expenses scandal - and your Tories are busy cleaning moats. Oh and crying that the STRAIN is too much AND exploiting expenses is the ONLY way to make £64,000 a year reasonable renumeration http://sparkindarkness.livejournal.com/233378.html. This was then followed by Alan Duncan (traitorous sell out that he is) declaing that MPs, on a mere £64,000 per year are ON RATIONS. Oh you couldn't make it up could you?
You try to assure people that you won't gut the NHS and that the Tories will be a firm defender of publiuc services and a far better steward of the NHS than Labour (which is a comedy in and of itself! The Tories! Defenders of the NHS! Oh how I laugh!) and then Tory MEP Daniel Hanan runs around America slagging of the NHS and displays a ridiculously extremist view.
I keep waiting for Cameron to announce how much he deplores using children as food while George Osbourne eats babies in the background :)
And he has, rather intelligently, played to this. He has desperately avoided having to say anything that in any way may be construed as a policy. Or a concrete position in anything but the vaguest terms. He confines himself to vague feel-good terms that don't mean much of anything - but damn if they don't sound nice. But there is a problem.
I'm sorry to tell you this, David. But there are Conservatives behind you. And if anyone can screw it up, they can.
See, you're like a Care Bear, out there spreading peace and light and a message of twu love and hope and fellowship. But behind you is a big wave of vampires and ogres that want to drain our blood and crunch our bones. They're turning your words into a paraody.
You try to reach out to the gay community - and the party votes overwhelmingly against any pro-gay legislation (but, hey, so did you so you can't complain). Then your party affiliates with some of the most open and virulent homophobes in Europe - AND CEDES CONTROL of the coalition to them! Then to add a bit more fury, Tory MEP Roger Helmer would like to tell us that homophobia doesn't actually exist. Hmmm... thanks for that
You try to be hard on the expenses scandal - and your Tories are busy cleaning moats. Oh and crying that the STRAIN is too much AND exploiting expenses is the ONLY way to make £64,000 a year reasonable renumeration http://sparkindarkness.livejournal.com/233378.html. This was then followed by Alan Duncan (traitorous sell out that he is) declaing that MPs, on a mere £64,000 per year are ON RATIONS. Oh you couldn't make it up could you?
You try to assure people that you won't gut the NHS and that the Tories will be a firm defender of publiuc services and a far better steward of the NHS than Labour (which is a comedy in and of itself! The Tories! Defenders of the NHS! Oh how I laugh!) and then Tory MEP Daniel Hanan runs around America slagging of the NHS and displays a ridiculously extremist view.
I keep waiting for Cameron to announce how much he deplores using children as food while George Osbourne eats babies in the background :)