The election that wasn't (part the XIV)

According to the Tories, today could have been the day that they went back to their constituencies and prepared for Government. Heh. Regardless of the fact that bad as the polling was for Labour, Satan would have been making snowballs in hell before the Conservatives could have returned an overall majority, there has been much crowing from CCHQ about how they wuz robbed.

More muted is the accolade from the right-wing blogosphere on the subject of the attack poster pictured left. This is because it seems that whichever intern at CCHQ was responsible for its design might have dropped a bollock, as the political phrase goes.

Guido was first on the case and points out that the poster seems to commit the Tories to a retrospective referendum on the EU Treaty. Whaaaa? Like, you mean the retrospective referendum that Davy committed himself to, decided it was a shite idea, and now insists on wheeling out wee Willy Hague to make his apologies for him every time a hack brings it up?

The very same, people. The very same.

Take a look at this article in the Sun on 26th September (via Devils Kitchen who's got an entire post on this that is well worth a read). For those of you too appalled by the picture of the Boy David unsuccessfully attempting to arrange his features into "William Pitt the Younger" but succeeding only in delivering Kermit the Frog to read any further, Westmonster will replicate the relevant bit here:

Today, I will give this cast-iron guarantee: If I become PM a Conservative government will hold a referendum on any EU treaty that emerges from these negotiations.

Not so much "cast iron" as "tin pot" as it later turned out. Shame nobody seemed got around to telling the graphics team at CCHQ.

Still, we've got a firm commitment on a policy out of the Tories at last. Unless Cameron changes his mind of course, and there's no way he'd dream of doing that.

Written by Lloyd Shepherd on 1 Nov 2007 11:30 AM. Permalink