When I was young I looked up to politicians assuming that they had been well educated and were intelligent people by and large. However I recently came across an article in the Telegraph by Douglas Alexander. He claimed that Brown and Labour could win the next election. The article was absolute drivel and I felt could have been written far better by a fifth form schoolboy/girl. The Tories need to do better and need to rise above the childishness of Labour.

Funny that Gordon has found a sudden interest in tax cuts. Once he found out the G20 and IMF were going to put it forward.

Also it is funny to see Gordon defend himself by the IMF, first of all its Gordon who tailored his policy to agree with the IMF not the other way around.
Secondly, i thought the IMF was the enemy which promoted Thatcherism.

And PM why has the pound collapsed? He cant answer.
He doesnt know why the credit crunch happened either.
He is lost and confused.
He is a globalist who looks for global solutions to everything, not British solutions.
He doesnt deserve to be PM.

I am afraid, that at the end of the day, we humans just are not perfectable. So all the force in the world does not achieve anything much except for abject misery.
I do not think, myself, that the complete chaos left by every single Labour government in their existence has been a fluke: I think it comes with the package. It has been deliberate.

that is why I shall be very pleased when the lib Dems become the loyal opposition.

Are you tribal about Labour? I mean, do you feel that they are the scum of the earth and should be destroyed? Rather as I understand that Brown feels about Tories.

Or are you just exasperated by this Government’s version of Socialism (as in Socialism Not) and the deceit by which it has plied its trade? In other words you do not hate Socialists as such, holding perhaps that it is a political philosophy with an honourable intent (fatally flawed of course) whose best purpose is to illuminate by comparison the better and more rational alternatives, but you are finally fed up with the awful and deceitful behaviour of the current government?

Reply: I think the socialist strand of thought is a part of vibrant democracy. I just dislike people who deliberately misrepresent the views of their opponents in an effort to stifle debate, instead of welcoming a proper democractic debate about which is the better policy or idea.

The only core competence of the New Labour gang has been media and public opinion manipulation. 2005 showed how good they are at it.

You must respond and rebut every lie with vigour and outrage. I’ve notice a set debating style in senior Labour politicians, they always interrupt other when they are making good points and like Brown they hide lies within lies – for example his accusation that George Osborn was attacking the economy, then he was warning about government policy.

They are devious snakes.

I love the paradox of a blogger reading letters on ‘ceefax’.

As for New Labour lies, people are falling for them, if people didn’t fall for them they wouldn’t bother telling them and making themselves sound so silly to any right-minded person who bothers to try and keep up.

So hopefully Cameron’s statement today might have clawed a few of those stragglers back.

Unfortunately, negative campaigning and dirty tricks normally work.

The 2004 US Presidential election is a good example of both.

The British Conservatives are just too soft.

I can never understand what people mean when they say Mandy is a fantastic political operator. Anyone can lie, distort, threaten, posture etc. There is zero skill in that. Of course the Tories have not been assisted by an outrageously biased media who seem to be paid up Nu Liebour members. The way the focus has been put on George Osborne is just staggering.

My political views are based on pragmatism. You cannot spend more than you earn. There is no such thing as a free lunch. You have to accept responsibility for your own actions. If you are in the poo it’s up to you to get yourself out. The world is not fair. Utopia does not exist, and never will. The whole Nu Liebour project has been based on a fantasy world where everything is possible, where you can have your cake and eat it, where rights takes precedence over responsibilities. It’s been a monumental con trick. Nothing more than smoke and mirrors. But these are desperate people who will resort to the lowest of tricks to hang onto power.

Hopefully the electorate are wise enough to see through the denials and lies of Brown. I sincerely hope so. The time has come for the opposition to speak with one voice. To tell the country exactly who is responsible for the mess we are in.

The cupboard is bare. The Big Girls Blouse is not the person to restock it!!!!!!

There’s a difference between taking a different view on policy and downright lying about the views of others. The Labour Party has chosen the latter path in the debate about the current financial crisis, augmented by disgraceful ad hominen attacks on anyone who dares to offer alternative viewpoints or solutions.

This figures, as thanks to the Labour Party’s mismanagement of the economy under ‘Enron Brown’ Britain being less well placed than other nations to ride out the crisis.

The Labour Party is well noted for its financial incompetence at all levels so I guess it’s easier for party apparatchiks like Blears to throw mud at other people rather than address issues they don’t really understand.

These strategies will backfire on Brown, who is out of touch with reality, surrounded as he is by sycophants. Put simply, the Labour Party underestimates the common sense of the British public, most of whom have a better grasp of financial reality than those in government! The public is waking up the Labour Government’s nonsense and I sense a backlash against Brown is imminent.