What a shambles the Labour conference is. I think we shuld admit they are all a shambles at this point in the electoral cycle. Great fun to be there but pretty poor TV.
The Lib Dem conference was a shambles because despite losing the votes on lots of key policy areas the activists wanted changed it is almost certain the leadership will now do it anyway.
The Labour conference this week was equally ridiculous. A lone voice who chose to shout out during a debate is expelled after a lifetime in the party and an early life in a concentration camp. Blair standing there telling the party what he was going to do whilst almost all of them did not want it.
And now the Conservative conference this week……
My time there will be somewhat curtailed by a decision to hold a Council meeting during the conference; duty first and all that.
Our conference is going to be a cross between a beauty contest and a TV game show. Lots of Miss World like belief in “helping small children” but the ultimate understanding that the winner of the leadership contest will be he who comes over best on TV. So here’s the big question: do you pick a leader who can win or who you believe in? Is there one of them who can do both?
Cameron – Is pretty good but not really sure he understands what he is talking about. He has been good on the diagnosis but I am not convinced he quite knows what the medicine is that the patient will accept without throwing up! He has a good bunch of speech writers around him and he would pull in new and younger people to the party who should be supporting us? Could not find a leadership website. Win 7 Belief 8
Clarke – I have said this before about Ken but where has he been for the past four years. You do get the feeling he crawls out of the smog of his cigars every time he gets a whiff of a leadership election. He might win but I am not sure how the hell he can lead the party. All Labour have to do is call a referendum on some small European matter which the party as a whole objects to and there we have our Leader going off and campaigning with the Labour party. However, of all the candidates he is the one the polls say is more likely to win, or is that just because they know him. He has a website. Win 8 Belief 6.
Davis – Apparently the ladies like him. He seems a bit like a Paddy Pantsdown but clearly more right wing. He is not remembered for his time in the Thatcher and Major Governments which is helpful. There is something I just do not get about him. I also heard him speak at something recently and he is only mildly better than IDS at speaking! He has a pretty good website though. Win 8 Belief 7.
What a choice; sure things will change and it will all become a bit clearer as time passes by! Labour is in not much better health. Brown seems a Tory gift to me. Rather good article in telegraph this week by Boris on what Brown would be like.
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