Wednesday 19 October 2016

Swinging The Lead

An 18-point Conservative poll lead.

For abandonment of the Budget surplus target, for abandonment of the Work Capability Assessment, for workers' reps on boards, for restrictions on pay differences within companies, for a crackdown on tax avoidance, for a ban on tax-avoiding companies from public contracts, for a Department for Industrial Strategy, for a huge programme of infrastructure spending in general and of housebuilding in particular, for a cap on energy prices, for a ban on foreign takeovers, and for an inquiry into Orgreave.

Oh, and as of today, for no dental tests to ascertain the ages of child refugees, which was Labour policy nine years ago, although certainly not the view of the man who is now the Leader of the Labour Party.

The Left cares profoundly about having a left-wing Prime Minister. But the Right just wants a Tory. It will then convince itself that any Tory is right-wing, while any Tory who is a late-middle-aged woman is Margaret Thatcher.

6 comments:

  1. The Right was, so to speak, right about "child" migrants.

    Two thirds of them are adults.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/child-refugees-migrants-two-thirds-home-office-dental-teeth-david-davies-a7369186.html

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    1. Too late. The Government has already decided to have absolutely nothing to do with the fragrant David T.C. Davies, who will be lucky to keep the Whip if he carries on like this, or with the tabloid papers, which in any case have nowhere else to go.

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  2. Telling the truth when it's unfashionable is a good thing in itself.

    And it was the truth.

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  3. This is a Tory government that doesn't give a stuff about the Sun or the Daily Mail, we are living in totally different times.

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    1. As far as Theresa May is concerned, these are matters for the charities that collect at her church, and which used to have one or both of her parents on their local committees. What those charities say, goes.

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