Comments on: How the PM could rekindle popularity http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/11/27/how-the-pm-could-rekindle-popularity/ Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wokingham Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:43:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mikestallard http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/11/27/how-the-pm-could-rekindle-popularity/#comment-13572 mikestallard Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:34:14 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/11/27/how-the-pm-could-rekindle-popularity/#comment-13572 I totally agree with all the good ideas which you have put forward. Unfortunately, they are not likely to happen because they aren't Labour policy. What Brown usually does is to accept a Tory idea and then water it down until it is harmless. (Schools? Inheritance tax?) Why are the government into GM crops anyway? Why do they not just improve our decaying power stations anyway? Oh - and lest we forget - our taxes are getting on for half our incomes. That is, to use Labour jargon, "unacceptable". I totally agree with all the good ideas which you have put forward.
Unfortunately, they are not likely to happen because they aren’t Labour policy. What Brown usually does is to accept a Tory idea and then water it down until it is harmless. (Schools? Inheritance tax?)
Why are the government into GM crops anyway?
Why do they not just improve our decaying power stations anyway?
Oh - and lest we forget - our taxes are getting on for half our incomes. That is, to use Labour jargon, “unacceptable”.

]]> By: steve_roberts http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/11/27/how-the-pm-could-rekindle-popularity/#comment-13506 steve_roberts Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:27:48 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/11/27/how-the-pm-could-rekindle-popularity/#comment-13506 Labour's popularity is now dead, even if this government stumbles on zombie-like for months or years overshadowed by long-drawn-out police investigations and the inevitable further cock-ups arising from micromanagement and incompetence. Its popularity will only be rekindled in due course by ten years or so of conservative government creating the inevitable complacency and factionalism within government, and boredom and resentment outside. Labour’s popularity is now dead, even if this government stumbles on zombie-like for months or years overshadowed by long-drawn-out police investigations and the inevitable further cock-ups arising from micromanagement and incompetence. Its popularity will only be rekindled in due course by ten years or so of conservative government creating the inevitable complacency and factionalism within government, and boredom and resentment outside.

]]> By: Neil Craig http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/11/27/how-the-pm-could-rekindle-popularity/#comment-13437 Neil Craig Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:59:58 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/11/27/how-the-pm-could-rekindle-popularity/#comment-13437 The only thing stopping us having blackouts is French nuclear & the situation can only get worse if we do nothing but mutter platitudes about windmills. GM & the closely related nano-technology are going to be the biggest industry of the 21stC. Heathrow need expansion if it & the UK economy as a whole, are not to be sidelined. On all 3 points the Luddites would certainly scream & scream till they were sick & they have a great amount of power in the media. Nonetheless if push comes to shove opinion polls show that greenery is very far down everybody's list & not destroying the economy very far up. David Cameron may have decided that making the Tories cuddly requires being nice to the Luddites but he may well have manouevered the Tories into an untenable position. Brown on the other hand, while not denouncing the warming scam has done the absloute minimum he could get away with & thus, I suspect, doesn't believe it. I suspect if he stood firmly & intelligently on a non-Luddite platform, putting the choices honestly before the people & let the Tories & LudDims fight for the alleged "environment friendly centre ground" he would win. He would also turn out to be right. The only thing stopping us having blackouts is French nuclear & the situation can only get worse if we do nothing but mutter platitudes about windmills. GM & the closely related nano-technology are going to be the biggest industry of the 21stC. Heathrow need expansion if it & the UK economy as a whole, are not to be sidelined.

On all 3 points the Luddites would certainly scream & scream till they were sick & they have a great amount of power in the media. Nonetheless if push comes to shove opinion polls show that greenery is very far down everybody’s list & not destroying the economy very far up.

David Cameron may have decided that making the Tories cuddly requires being nice to the Luddites but he may well have manouevered the Tories into an untenable position. Brown on the other hand, while not denouncing the warming scam has done the absloute minimum he could get away with & thus, I suspect, doesn’t believe it.

I suspect if he stood firmly & intelligently on a non-Luddite platform, putting the choices honestly before the people & let the Tories & LudDims fight for the alleged “environment friendly centre ground” he would win. He would also turn out to be right.

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