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April 15, 2005
Mo' of deep 'oles
Polls are dreadful if you're a TBC today. We forecast that locking up Bourgass might play well for ZNL, but were unprepared for the counter attack on the grounds of immigration. This may well gather pace today, despite ZNL attempting to defuse the issue with apologies.
The Sun was pretty scathing about this in it's editorial today. "We must have proper control of our borders to keep his like at bay", gives a flavour of their views, surprisingly close to the TBC views.
Nothing phases The Mirror however, who take the line that it was just operational difficulties which led to Stephen Oake's death, and makes no mention of the ZNL apologies. "Tragically Detective Constable Stephen Oake was killed by Bourgass because the raid was badly bungled." They also have fun at Howard's expense, with a son at public school, and 10 fellow ahadow cabinet members ex-public-schoolboys, it makes his claims about being a simple comprehensive school student in Wales a pretty easy target.
All bad news on the Rover front too. The putative Shanghai partners have all but pulled out, and the last £6,000,000 is all but spent. Given that they say they are losing around £20,000,000 per month it tells you that, in effect, they are losing their entire wage bill. Not good. The Financial Times tells us that the fragrant Hewitt and her friends at the DTI were against both the proposed £100,000,000 bung and the actual £6,000,000 one. Blair was for it, however, presumably wanted an eye catching initiative with which he could be personally associated, as he originally wrote on 29th April 2000. So will Rover get more? My bet; YES.
Hmm. Past noon and still no Lib Dem manifesto for the welsh. Are they translating it or what? For Scotland (plus a supplement) they had some special, localised ambitions: -
"# Achieve radical health improvement by preventing illness and promoting good health
# Cut crime and reoffending through effective rehabilitation and alternatives to custody
# Implement innovative education and enterprise policies to create an entrepreneurial Scotland
# Get Scotland moving through massive investment in public transport & infrastructure
# Make sustainable development the focus for Scotland’s future and ensure a green environmental thread runs through all Scottish Executive policy, not least in our ambitious targets for renewable energy, recycling and green jobs"
So, they're going "achieve health improvement by preventing illness and promoting good health", are they? Good Plan.
But it does have a pretty cover....
Today's Political Betting Projected Election Outcome LAB majority 68 seats
Posted by Flo Ting Voe Tah at April 15, 2005 11:28 AM