Tory lead drops to 5%...... Hung parliament?

Mr.Brown_4

wymondham wrote: »

Could Cameron survive losing this election to Labour??

No. I don't think Brown will survive win, lose or draw.

But the Conservatives seem to be a bit lost in the last few months, surely all they need to do is mouth on message platitudes, nothing too specific and they should be home and dry. They could do with a Mandelson, I dislike him of course, but what a player to have on your side. Always the right words, always gets the point home, rarely put on the spot by journalists who quite frankly seem scared to question him.

Osbourne has been particularly useless, rubbish interviews, either says too much or not enough. Perhaps he thinks people want him to have big ideas? No, we just want any excuse to vote Labour out of office - for me its Iraq and being as bad as the Tories.

StevieJ

Potential hung parliament = plenty of ammo for the LibDems on the doorstep, you know the comment 'I would love to vote LibDem but it is a wasted vote' I think they should be able to deal with that comment adequately this time and produce their own with 'But you do realise that Vince Cable was the only one to warn about the credit crisis' rightly or wrongly.

baby_boomer

kabayiri wrote: »

Why don't we create a 'recession wartime coalition' government now.

They are a sort of coalition already.

If you took the next two significant statements from each of the three main parties and put them in a list to be presented to the general public, no-one would be able to identify which party produced which statement.

We are all confused what they think.

MPs are definitely confused about what their leaders are telling them to think.

And that's because the leaders don't know what they think, or don't know what we want them to think .

Coalition probably fits the general situation quite well :rotfl:

wymondham

baby_boomer wrote: »

They are a sort of coalition already.

If you took the next two significant statements from each of the three main parties and put them in a list to be presented to the general public, no-one would be able to identify which party produced which statement.

We are all confused what they think.

MPs are definitely confused about what their leaders are telling them to think.

And that's because the leaders don't know what they think, or don't know what we want them to think .

Coalition probably fits the general situation quite well :rotfl:

Excellent post - summed up nicely. Total lack of imagination and new ideas by all of them. Much more of this and they will encourage apathy at the polls as why vote when they all give the same old same old??

aelitaman

This is an unusal election campaign.

You have Darling saying I can cut Govt spending better than the Torys to get us out of the mess that Brown landed us in.
You have Osbourne saying I can cut Govt spending better than Labour to get us out of the mess that Brown landed us in.

Some choice.

Only consistant theme is Brown is a one man walking disaster zone.

ninky_2

i don't think darling has suggested it is a mess that brown got us in. can you quote where he has said that?

ninky_2

in fact didn't the head of the imf heap praise on gordon brown for handling of the economic crisis?

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/business_money/imf+praises+gordon+brownaposs+tackling+of+crisis/3435197

"The world owes Gordon Brown a "debt of gratitude" for the way he took the initiative in trying to tackle the financial crisis, says the head of the International Monetary Fund."

aelitaman

ninky wrote: »

i don't think darling has suggested it is a mess that brown got us in. can you quote where he has said that?

English is a lovely language where so much can be implied with a choice of words.

Brown "Labour Investment vs Tory Cuts"

Darling "My judgement is that halving the deficit over a four-year period with the structural deficit coming down by two-thirds, is the right [course of action]."

Translates to "I have to cut because of the mess Brown has left us in."

Rochdale_Pioneers

ninky wrote: »

in fact didn't the head of the imf heap praise on gordon brown for handling of the economic crisis?

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/business_money/imf+praises+gordon+brownaposs+tackling+of+crisis/3435197

"The world owes Gordon Brown a "debt of gratitude" for the way he took the initiative in trying to tackle the financial crisis, says the head of the International Monetary Fund."

Don't listen to Herr Strauss-Kahn. As head of the IMF he is obviously an economic novice compared to Osborne. So every time the Tories get contradicted on economics by the IMF. Or the Markets. Or the BoE. Just remember. Osborne is right. The experts are wrong.

aelitaman

Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »

Don't listen to Herr Strauss-Kahn. As head of the IMF he is obviously an economic novice compared to Osborne. So every time the Tories get contradicted on economics by the IMF. Or the Markets. Or the BoE. Just remember. Osborne is right. The experts are wrong.

Most truthful post you have every made.

You can now change your name to Rochdale Komsomol as you have progressed from shorts to knee length trousers.