No Matter How Bad Things Seem . . . They Could Always Be Worse
Linked as:
Summary
HAVING your candidate come down with swine flu, as happened to Labour's Chris Ostrowski in Norwich North, turns out to be rather a useful tactic for a government on a losing streak. You can plausibly dismiss the result as irrelevant because the candidate wasn't on form - or even there. Unfortunately for Gordon Brown, you can't arrange to have an entire government fall ill, though I dare say it has crossed his mind in the past few months. But perhaps the prime minister should consider having a diplomatic illness on the eve of the next general election. It's only a suggestion...
The Norwich North by-election told us everything and nothing. On a turnout this low, in the holiday season and with the flu factor, it's very difficult to draw sensible conclusions - except that the Labour government is clearly living on borrowed time, and looks beyond salvation. This was the first of Gordon's" bye-bye elections", as one witty BBC emailer put it. But there's still great uncertainty about just how enthusiastic the country is about saying hello to David Cameron - the Tory vote only went up by 6%. We don't really know a lot about how a Cameron government will behave - though there seems little doubt that he will be in power by next spring.See the full content of this document
Extract
No Matter How Bad Things Seem . . . They Could Always Be Worse
We all seem to be taking the prospect very lightly. I suppose I am pretty typical: as a floating non-Tory voter I've never voted Conservative in my life, but I feel curiously relaxed about a change of government. I wouldn't say that I'm looking forward to the re...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
