A blog by Luke Akehurst about politics, elections, and the Labour Party - With subtitles for the Hard of Left.
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Ming Gone
According to Sky Ming is about to resign... thereby stuffing Cameron's chances of winning the next election (hopefully).
On the contrary, Gordon will look like a serious politician against the two boarding school clones who have only been in Parliament about a fortnight between them.
I was thinking more along the lines that the most recent change in the polls has been Lib Dems switching to the Tories, so any improvement in the LD position should reverse this - particularly as Clegg is quite similar to Cameron in both image and politics.
I agree with Luke's analysis that the real swing recently has been LD to T. That being the case, a revitalised LD leader (from eitehr left or right but clearly better from our perspective from the right) is likely to be positive.
Given the poor press for Brown for the last week, the timing of Ming's resignation could be seen as his last great act of help to his neighbour changing the news agenda away from the election story and potentially stemming the Tory resurgence in LD areas
Certainly, quite a few of the people who are in the frame for the leadership - Huhne, Clegg, Davey, Clegg - are from the Orange Book flavour of Lib Dem.
Huhne is quite SDP actually. Not sure about his exact political history, but I've seen a photo of the young socialist Huhne (then a Labour Club member) battering down a door at Oxford University in a wild 1970s protest. Methinks he's mellowed slightly since.
Dear Luke
ReplyDeleteCome, come dear boy let's not get over excited by the woes of one of our opponents.
There's no let up on the campaign trail...
Actually, it might stuff Gordon's chances.....
ReplyDeleteGordon won't look good against David Cameron and Nick Clegg.
ReplyDeleteOn the contrary, Gordon will look like a serious politician against the two boarding school clones who have only been in Parliament about a fortnight between them.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking more along the lines that the most recent change in the polls has been Lib Dems switching to the Tories, so any improvement in the LD position should reverse this - particularly as Clegg is quite similar to Cameron in both image and politics.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Luke's analysis that the real swing recently has been LD to T. That being the case, a revitalised LD leader (from eitehr left or right but clearly better from our perspective from the right) is likely to be positive.
ReplyDeleteGiven the poor press for Brown for the last week, the timing of Ming's resignation could be seen as his last great act of help to his neighbour changing the news agenda away from the election story and potentially stemming the Tory resurgence in LD areas
Certainly, quite a few of the people who are in the frame for the leadership - Huhne, Clegg, Davey, Clegg - are from the Orange Book flavour of Lib Dem.
ReplyDeleteHuhne is not particularly 'Orange Book', despite contributing to it.
ReplyDeleteNo, but he's not exactly SDP either!
ReplyDeletei think it's fair to say that the sdp and orange book factions of the libdems have more in common than the liberal and orange book factions.
ReplyDeletesee now, the libdems are a serious party - they have their very own factions, just like labour and the tories.
Actually, Huhne is very much 'SDP'. Clegg is more of a liberal Tory and I think , a clone of Cameron!
ReplyDeleteHuhne is quite SDP actually. Not sure about his exact political history, but I've seen a photo of the young socialist Huhne (then a Labour Club member) battering down a door at Oxford University in a wild 1970s protest. Methinks he's mellowed slightly since.
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