Dave's speech: the fallout

BONG! Cameron's choice of campaign song is questioned by Tom Watson: apparently it's about gangstas, taking drugs, smacking hos, shooting up the pigs, and all of the jolly unpleasant things that the Tories are dreadfully unhappy about. Poor show, chaps!

BONG! Five minutes before Dave is due to address Conference, Nadine Dorries cuts through the crap to the real issues of interest to Spectator readers: her makeup.

BONG! LabourHome dutifully reports that Cameron's speech was a bit rubbish. Yeah, what sort of voter would be up for cutting inheritance tax, cancelling ID cards, and receiving support from a pension life-raft, after all? Nope, can't think of any.

BONG! That said, only a muted thumbs-up from Philip Webster at the Times.

BONG! Bojo announces that he won't give up his Henley seat in the event of a general election being announced, in spite of his campaign for the London mayoralty. Hear that? It's the sound of Ken's evil cackle while he lines the blond-haired bumbler up firmly in the centre of his rifle scope.

BONG! There are some MPs at Prime Minister's Questions who send Westmonster's eyes rolling into the back of her head. "Would the Prime Minister agree with me that he is one sexy, foxy beast?" "I thank the Honourable Member for Backbenchborough, and agree that I am sizzling hot, baby." You get the idea. However, Guido reports on how housing minister Yvette Cooper took the enforced sycophancy to a whole new level of badness.

BONG! Fair Deal Phil on Cameron's "cheap political stunt."

BONG! RecessMonkey points out that if Gord goes for it next week, we'll be campaigning over Hallowe'en. At least Westmonster will get fed that night; by this stage in the election she always resembles the most hideous ghoul and fully anticipates passers by handing out toffee apples in the fear that the awful old hag will egg their houses if they don't.

Written by Lloyd Shepherd on 3 Oct 2007 6:48 PM. Permalink