Out foxed
BTW I couldn't agree more with Fraser:
Brown’s breathtakingly bad performance on Marr risks overlooking Liam Fox’s brilliant one. As Andrew Porter has said, word perfect.The contrast was overwhelming: tired, bumbling, patently false Brown - he clearly thinks the voters are a bunch of ungrateful idiots for daring to attack his government; and articulate, fresh and convincing Fox....The Tories badly need to hammer home this narrative – what I have called the “reign of error”. It’s happening to Greenspan in America already. Osborne is doing a fine job, but we need all the Shadow Cabinet rubbishing Brown’s record every chance they get, with the effortless and fluency which Fox managed today.
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May 5th, 2008 3:44pmFox stated "I think we have to try to understand why Labour did so badly, and so do they obviously" haha!
Commondog
May 6th, 2008 6:39amHmmm.
He does a good job of showing up the cak-handedness of Labour as they are right now, and as a group, not just the leader.
Agreed, that needs to be kept up.
Not too sure about the concerns with political pilfering though. The most maddening thing about Labour's reaction to their crash, is their determination to talk about secondary issues as if they are the main problem, leaving the biggie under a blanket.
The 10p farce: OK a bad idea but not a sacking offence. Petrol prices: we're not daft, that's down to outside forces, we can moan as we always do and get on with things.
But the torpedo which Labour sent out at the basic-pay-rate people of this country, and which has looped and come back on them, is immigration, immigration on an industrial level, planned and executed brilliantly in order to bring down our wage earning ability and worse, to transform the nation into a place we do not want for ourselves.
We need to be told there is a party who will end this. We need to know how and when it will be ended. This is one issue which Mr Fox has to wheel out the front. He has no grounds to fear the pilfering of plans on this one.
Unless that is, his plans are just as mealy-mouthed as Brown's. His nibbling little points system is not a good sign?