And on we go… Four down, 27 to go.
First Twitter casualty. I’m sure there will be more. As Dizzy rightly says, anyone who says they haven’t done something that would look horrible on the front page of the Sun is a liar.
First election conversation overheard on the bus:
So who are you voting for?… You mean you don’t know or you don’t want to tell me?
And then the phone was clearly banged down. Whoever she was talking to REALLY didn’t want to say.
The Spectator was the in-flight magazine on the Prime Minister’s campaign flight. That will, I imagine, not go down terribly well. It’s the kind of thing that could make you paranoid.
Mandate Comms (via Iain Dale) has generated some Wordles (suspect there will be plenty more of them to come too) of DC, Brown and Nick Clegg’s launch speeches. Unsurprisingly, David’s majored on change, country, and people. Brown’s was all about British, people, decisions. And Clegg’s… well his was mainly about Labour and Conservative. If you’re going to campaign as different, and you aspire to anything serious, I really do think you want to say your good points as well as using the others’ names as a pejorative.
Snog, marry, avoid has come to politics. Paul Waugh has done the number crunching, and the results are in: snog Nick Clegg, marry David Cameron, and avoid Gordon Brown. But not with any degree of enthusiasm…
And fantastic news. I love Tunnock’s caramel wafers. And teacakes. And basically anything they make. We used to get them as a huge treat at school at the end of term. You can’t normally get them down here, but I found some in my local Sainsbury’s last week which was very exciting. But nearly as exciting as that is that the boss of Tunnock’s has endorsed the Conservatives’ National Insurance plan. Momentum is all.
Time for some actual politics though. David was on Today this morning. Evan Davis’ final question was about whether he’d managed to fulfil his promise to abandon Punch and Judy politics. I think for the first time EVER I heard a politician give a one word answer. Obviously he then expanded on it. But the key point was that he admitted failure.
Politically this is remarkable. Politicians DON’T admit to not achieving – they generally can’t. And of course this is only a tiny thing, not a policy that affects peoples’ lives, and not very important in the wider scheme of things. But – politicians getting into the habit of admitting the truth could go a long way to redeeming some of that VERY broken trust.
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