Another big Tory poll lead

David C

I tend to concur with Jackie Ashley's interpretation of events.
Two weeks ago she described the Labour Party as 'Clinically Depressed'.
They are enervated.
Mr d'Ancona seems to think that Labour will stage some sort of fightback to victory. First, they have to fight.

I suggest that after '10p Tax', 'Northern Rock', '42 Days' and now 'VED', the primary target for a Labour Party fightback resides in No.10. But I doubt it will take place, if at all, until the last moment, when the party realises it is drowning in the polls.
The next two years will not be pleasant as Brown rams through irrevocable changes to the country. Some posters here suspect it will be 'scorched earth' politics. I think I agree.

Fergus Pickering

But Matt does tend to be wrong about nearly everything, doesn't he? He got Iraq wrong. He thought Blair was the best thing since sliced bread. He backed Brown to be a strong leader. He thinks that Brown is an idealistic man of principle. Where does that come from? You make a bunch of speeches about African children. You tell us Mugabe's a bad person. Yeah, right. Brown is a man who never got over being a clever sixteen year old. Like Peter Pan he never grew up. At least that's my take on him and just as likely as Matt's. He's right about the wimps, but who doesn't know that?

Laura

Good to see Matt championing Labour again, not!

TrevorH

"Matt" is it now?

Brown may survive because the Labour Party are clueless (after all they appointed him unopposed and they sat through 11 budgets completely ignorant and indifferent to their consequences.

But for Brown to stage a 'fightback' would requite 90% of the country to be lobotomised. Given that the state of the NHS after 11 years of labour is such that expectant mothers are suffering such shambolic care that even 'The Sun' has noticed,
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article725154.ece
then I suspect that the resources to do this are not available.

Someone tell 'Matt' that the nation has has its epiphany. Efforts by Brown and others to persuade us otherwise carry all the believability of an advert for wrinkle cream.

DM

The electorate has had enough of Brown and his incompetence. He has been landed on us, and we don't like him and what he's doing. It's that simple.
As for the Labour party - they lack the ruthlesness and courage to get rid of him. They know he's a liability, but still they cannot bring themselves to do anything. They are spineless and self-interested. They play for time, hoping and hoping. And for those reasons, the rest of us are stuck with this crew until they are forced to call an election.

DM

oops - ruthlessness.

Alex

So the question is, how do the Conservatives push themselves above the 50% mark, and really cement their position (as Labour frequently achieved in opposition before 1997)? Or, is this not possible?