1. Country Baronet Gideon George Osborne urged people to get out of the red and keep in the black.
2. Guido Fawkes is causing embarrassment to the Tory high command by attracting raucous cheers wherever he goes, notably more so than any Conservative politicians.
3. Tooting Tory PPC Mark Clarke is even less popular than Recess Monkey’s man in Birmingham, causing us to pity him a bit and drunkenly exhort him not to stand down on the basis that “You’ve done nothing worse than Norris or Yeo”.
4. Agents of CCHQ suggest the 6% club - namely the body of appratchiks campaigning for a 6% swing, the exact swing required to gain 111 extra Tory seats at the next election, the 112th seat being Mark Clarke in Tooting.
5. David Cameron’s key note speech will be written mostly by Dougie Smith, one time sex party organiser. It has been suggested that the man who puts words into Cameron’s mouth once skinned an ex-girlfriend’s pet hamster as an act of revenge.
6. Iain Duncan Smith, champion of Conservative Social Justice, has been complaining that he’s in a disabled accessible room at the Novotel, darkly suggesting it’s a conspiracy to comment on his abilities as a polititian. Surely he should be campaigning for all hotel rooms to be disabled accessible?
7. Delegates have been urged not to yawn in the conference hall because of the cameras. Champaign flutes have been banned from the ICC because the would “send the wrong message”. The hall was so overcrowded for the Osborne speech that many of the great and good were turned away, not least Rebekah Wade - which won’t help when seeking Murdoch’s backing in an election.
8. Lots of sightings of Putney MP Justine Greening, though few of her smiling after the outing of her as the former lover of the neighbouring Tory candidate Mark Clarke.
9. David “two brains” Willets made a speech about how women who are intellectual achievers risk being unable to find a man because they intimidate potential partners. But it came across as a rant by a man still bitter that he never could pull in the bar at uni.
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A libertarian in their midst « Curly’s Corner Shop, the blog! said this on September 30th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Number 9. What he says is true, and it is also a very clever political trick popular on the right wing. Identify a problem and gain votes because you are the only one talking about the problem. You don’t have to propose any solution, in fact it’s better if you don’t because there would always be people for and against any solution (also in this case there is no solution that politicians can offer).
Of course there are people who don’t believe his premise, but as an atheist I would say that the desire to believe does not serve as a logical justification for that belief.
Richard said this on October 7th, 2008 at 4:23 pm