Riding the Tory wave

Burton

Who cares about the thoughts of some tabloid trash?

We've got inflation double the target and a recession around the corner and some people care about the shorts a man wears?

Forget the Boden catalogue: we need think about "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" and "The Road to Serfdom".

Ted Tedford

I'm loathe to add to this silly season puffery, but I suspect there might be a bit of confusion of cause and effect at work. His 'life-style' [dread word] hasn't led to him being admired. The dissatisfaction with Brown et al has led to a kind of Tory rehabilitation, for which Daveo has been the obvious beneficiary, and that has led to articles like this. If he had been photographed in such a 'lifestyle' pose this time last year, when his fortunes were low and he was notable chiefly for his driver and his windmill, Mr Cameron would have been derided as a posh spaz mincing for the cameras when he should have been working on some flesh for his skeletal policy agenda. Cue headlines liked 'washed up in Cornwall' (or wherever). And Sweet-Feet Brown would have been hailed as 'workmanlike', rather than an obsessive freak who can't let go.

As it is, the mood has switched and Dave is now everyone's darling, and Gordon would have received a shoeing regardless of his attire.

TGF UKIP

Dave, Dave, Dave - Rah, Rah, Rah! The cheerleading call of the Speccie hacks - and don't forget to shake those pom poms, James.

However, if you've got your eye on Alastair Campbell's old job should your boy win in 2010, you're too late matey. Fraser's already got that lined up for himself.

Perhaps, though, the Charles Powell role may be more appropriate but there again you might be considered rather too transatlantic for that lot's taste.

Silent Hunter

Who are UKIP again?

TGF UKIP

Silent Hunter - the,only conservative party currently operating in the UK and while I am not a member nor an activist I do commend you to visit their website at ukip.org and view the April 9th summary of their policies.

I would also point out that they do have a sensibly pragmatic energy policy, something the Cameron Tories certainly do not possess, notwithstanding our looming energy crunch.

Frank Pulley

Oh dearie me!

David

"and while I am not a member nor an activist"

My bum.

Elizabeth Elliot-Pyle

As a mere housewife, the thing that strikes me is the difference between Brown and Cameron's treatment of their wives.
For example, the holiday photos just recently.... Brown strides out and shakes hands etc leaving his wife way behind (almost as if he has forgotten about her, which I feel sure he has) whereas Cameron INCLUDES his wife in all his photo ops. The Camerons seem like a real couple, where the Browns look like a boss and his employee.
(As far as I am concerned, if a man doesnt respect his wife, he is a cad and certainly should NOT be running the country).

TGF UKIP

Frank Pulley, I guess that you may be saying rather more strong than "Oh dearie me!" when the lights start going out c2015-2020 and Dave is waffling on about wind power and his de-centralized energy policy.

Here's a challenge, though, go to the Conservative Party's website and then to UKIP's and look at both parties' energy policies and make your own judgement as to which is the more down to earth and pragmatic.

However, before you come to a final conclusion and bearing in mind the Tory emphasis on micro CHP go to the websites of the various energy supply co's and see just what is currently available by the way of domestic micro CHP boilers.

I am no energy expert but am an investor in several energy companies including a micro CHP company closely involved in the Dutch market and I, therefore, know distortion to the point of mendacity when I see it.

David, I take it you don't believe me. Well, I'm afraid it's true, I'm just a provincial, eurosceptic conservative who simply wants a distinctly right of centre party to vote for instead of the three politically correct, europhile, social democrat parties we have at the moment. In short I want a Conservative Party that lives up to its name. Too much to ask for?

Silent Hunter

Oh!

I thought Screaming Lord Sutch was the late leader of UKIP....

...........So who are the Monster Raving Loony Party then?

silly billy

The tatooeed lady is far too much of an exhibitionist to walk a few steps behind.
She needs the oxygen of publicity.
They both even resort to flaunting Ivan for all and sundry to gawk at.
Anything to stay in the limelight.

Nigel Lusby

When will you idiots realise that before a Tory government can start to sort out the total chaos NuLabor have created, they first have to get elected. Unfortunately most of the electorate don't read anything other than "the Tablod trash" and are incapable of forming any political opinion of their own, until given it by Murdoch et al. So if the "the Tabloid trash" are still backing this total failure of a government at election time they will probably get back in against all the odds. So we DO CARE what "the Tabloid trash" think. If they are at last sending positive messages about Cameron and the Tories then we are a long way towards the end of this horror story.

Ian C

Ted Tedford - quite right. It's the sort of guff the world can do without because it creates such false impressions and sets the next tabloid faveourite up for his subsequent inevitable demise. A distasteful and cynical means of ensuring future news stories.