One thing that needs to be done over the coming days is to expose the myth that to vote Lib Dem is to vote for change. The electoral arithmetic is clear that even if there were an increase in the Lib Dem vote akin to the projections of some of the current polls, the Lib […]
We noted last night that The Sun's latest daily tracker poll which puts the Lib Dems one point ahead of the Conservatives. But delving deeper into the poll and there are some significant findings, as the Sun reports: "In the same opinion poll, barely half those asked said they knew what Mr Clegg stood for.And […]
Toxic stuff in Birmingham Hall Green. More on The Straight Choice website. Click on the scans to enlarge.
Peter Mandelson is quoted in today's People newspaper, making an extraordinary attack on the role being played by Mrs Sarah Brown in the General Election: "I'm sure Sarah Brown is a great wife and a wonderful mother, but by having her on his arm Gordon isn't going to win the election. If you appear to […]
Thanks to West Cornwall CF for these two… If you have ideas please email them in. More anti-LibDem posters here and here.
The Liberal Democrats want to scrap prison sentences under six months. More anti-LibDem posters here.
On ToryDiary Paul Goodman explores anti-LibDem strategies. On this page we post some poster ideas that encapsulate two of the strategies; attacking the policies of Nick Clegg and warning that a vote for the Liberal Democrats is Gordon Brown's best hope of winning power. VOTE CLEGG, GET BROWN CLEGG WANTS TO SCRAP BRITAIN'S NUCLEAR DETERRENT […]
Shadow education secretary Michael Gove has today been giving the following explanation of the good reviews of Nick Clegg's performance last night: "Nick Clegg I think benefits from being the new kid on the block. With novelty comes curiosity, but also with novelty will come, now, increased scrutiny." And he signalled that such Lib Dem […]
Here are some of the claims made by Brown and Clegg, along with their rebuttal: Gordon Brown claims he has promised to increase police spending every year: "I'm afraid the Conservatives are not prepared to guarantee, as we are prepared to do, that we will continue to fund the police force and the spending on […]
The Green Party launched its manifesto today and if any further evidence were required that the party is is a far Left, statist outfit, then here it is. A quick zip through various reports on the manifesto launch and you swiftly discover a long list of spending commitments for which the Greens reckon they will […]
Last week Transport Secretary Lord Adonis highlighted his view that the Lib Dems and Labour should be natural allies. Today he reaffirms this view in a further Guardian article: "Everything that has happened since simply reinforces my argument, and makes ever more absurd the Lib Dem claim to be equidistant between Labour and the Conservatives. […]
The Evening Standard reports Lord Mandelson saying of the Tory leader: “He looks down his rather long toffee nose at the regions.” The new nasty party. Tim Montgomerie
Below is the clip of Andrew Slaughter, the outgoing Labour MP for Ealing Acton and Shepherds Bush, taken from an interview with LBC Radio’s Nick Ferrari last week (when Slaughter was still an MP rather than a candidate seeking re-election). It has been shared with the world by his Conservative opponent in the new Hammersmith […]
In his Tea with Pickles column, the party chairman has already noted that five of the pledges in Labour's Manifesto are directly lifted from the Conservatives. But Michael Gove earlier led a rebuttal of the document, picking off Labour's promises in other groups of five as follows, along with the Conservative counter-claims: Five promises they […]
Remember how last year the Communication Workers Union threatened to withdraw its £1 million contribution to Labour unless the Government dropped plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail? Lo and behold, as the BBC's Robert Peston has spotted, the measure has been dropped from Labour's manifesto, as page six of chapter two states: "The Royal Mail […]