Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Today a leading politician is warning the mouse, either move the party away from the mamby pamby politics
and move to the right.
make the tories electable again.
who was it????
none other than norman tebbitt
you have been warned mouse
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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read this piece from norm in the observer this morning.
"The headlines on the front pages of the upmarket papers last week had been bad enough for Cameron, but the Saturday tabloids were an absolute disaster. This dog of a coalition government has let itself be given a bad name and now anyone can beat it. It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs. Past governments have had far more real Tory toffs: prime ministers Alec Douglas-Home and Harold Macmillan, or even in Thatcher's day, Whitelaw, Soames, Hailsham, Carrington, Gowrie, Joseph, Avon, Trenchard and plenty more, without incurring similar abuse.
The abiding sin of the government is not that some ministers are rich, but that it seems unable to manage its affairs competently. The Blair government was scarcely rocked by the discovery that the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, had exercised his droit de seigneur by fornicating with a civil servant on his office desk during working hours. This government has difficulty in managing a non-story about the chancellor upgrading his ticket on a train, or the stupidity of the former chief whip (who is no toff) behaving like a saloon-bar bore.
Of course, the government was bound to be vulnerable to name-calling and mudslinging, as it is bound to upset all manner of vested interests as it reins in the Blair-Brown spending spree that brought us to the brink of a real financial catastrophe. Even
worse, Cameron has to put up with disloyal Liberal Democrat ministers who would clearly be happier playing for Labour. None of that, however, can be an excuse for one failure after another to think through an idea before launching it at half-cock and having to backtrack.
In some ways Cameron should be glad that the bad name his government has been given is that of a government of toffs. He can overcome that by imposing some managerial discipline not just on his colleagues but on himself. Had Ed Miliband concentrated his fire on a long list of muddles, from the proposed sale of our national forests to the BAE and energy policy muddles of recent days, it would have been far worse.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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im sure eds holding back his fire
the mouse is doing enough to damage himself
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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What with the last lot promising to pass legislation to banish boom and bust, to the present bunch who think that insisting that theirs will be a full five year term will make the public tolerate their habit of daily debacle; preservation by incantation.
Then there is old Norman himself who was content to blacken the name of the pub opposite his home because beer glasses were piling up on his door step...until he spoke to the management and discovered that the glasses in question were not the type used at that pub. An historical appraisal of ol' Norm would be too, too depressing.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.