Time was when any Labour MP who became an "adviser" to the Tories would have had the Whip withdrawn on the spot, and been expelled from the Labour Party very soon thereafter.
But now that Tory and Lib Dem MPs are "advisers" to Gordon Brown, why doesn't David Cameron use his Party Conference to announce his own "advisers" from among the more dedicated Brown-haters on the Labour benches? What could Brown possibly say or do?
And what could Ming Campbell possibly say or do, having allowed Matthew Taylor to "advise" Brown, if Cameron conferred such positions on, most obviously, Nick Clegg and David Laws?
Not that this will happen, of course. Last year's Tory Conference never discussed a single policy (not one, all week), and I doubt that this year's will discuss so much as a single political machination. In fact, is anyone even going to turn up? If so, why?
But now that Tory and Lib Dem MPs are "advisers" to Gordon Brown, why doesn't David Cameron use his Party Conference to announce his own "advisers" from among the more dedicated Brown-haters on the Labour benches?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure he would if he could. Or, to put it another way, I'm sure he will if he can. I don't think he can, though.
Oh, I don't know. Don't underestimate just how much the now-dispossessed Blairites hate Brown. Or just how much they, like Blair himself, love Cameron.
ReplyDelete"Oh, I don't know. Don't underestimate just how much the now-dispossessed Blairites hate Brown. Or just how much they, like Blair himself, love Cameron."
ReplyDeleteStill waiting for a Labour defector. Ain't goanna happen.
Do inform us which Blairites love Cameron?
Who needs to defect? The existing party labels are now just a con trick perpetrated against the electorate for so long as it continues to allow itself to be conned. They tell one absolutely nothing about the individuals wearing them.
ReplyDeleteThe Blairites all love Cameron. He is Blair's own preferred successor. And he is not Brown. What's for them not to love?