'Hash Broon' appeared on the 'telly' this morning grinding out his usual cliches and platitudes. I think he composes his statements with a hat full of words and simply picks them out randomly one at a time like Tristan Tzara the Dada-ist poet at the beginning of Stoppard's play "Travesties". "Leadership", "lessons", "view", "decisions", "courageous", "leading", "right", "long term", "stability", "listening" and so on and on like a demented speak-your-weight machine. Of course, the word which then hits the deck like a dud dollar is "courageous" which is what he ain't! He ducked an election for his party's leadership, he reared up in fright at the prospect of a general election, he cowered behind technicalities to avoid a vote on the European treaty and then sneaked in after hours with his coat collar turned up in order to sign it and finally he shuffled around the Olympic torch whilst trying simultaneously to bathe in its reflected glow whilst not wishing to handle the beastly thing. What a pathetic disgrace he is!
'Cameroon' had to hide away the empty champagne bottles and the party-poppers before trying to look prime ministerial for the cameras. He was sensible enough not to gloat too much and was wise to dampen Tory expectations. However, I still suspect (I cannot know) that this may have been a bad day for the Tories, or perhaps to put it accurately, a bad day for us. Last year, when 'Broon' was in his ascendancy and threatening a general election, 'Dim Dave' was 'frit' and in desperation some of his apparatchiks actually began to talk in almost Thatcherite terms. Then 'Broon' imploded and with an almost audible sigh of relief the 'Cameroons' went back to mouthing platitudes. Now, I don't blame the Tories for keeping their powder dry by not laying out detailed policies as hostages to Labour fortune, but I have a sinking feeling that more of the same is all that the 'Cameroons' can and will come up with if they think they are a dead cert to win. If so, they won't last long and, perish the thought, some one a lot nastier will come out of the woodwork to give us all the change we yearn for.
140,000 vote majority! That's pretty decisive. And even at 'CiF', the columnists there (currently in full meltdown mode) don't seem to have noticed the BNP Assembly seat yet.
Oh dear, poor lefties. It's not going to be a good weekend for them...
Still, Polly can always take Littlejohn's suggestion and jet off to her villa to recover!
Posted by: JuliaM | Saturday, 03 May 2008 at 06:25
"Polly can always take Littlejohn's suggestion and jet off to her villa to recover"
Wasn't that the most superb put down in the history of TV? Talk about "collapse of stout party". I gather that it is now being 'You-Tubed' all over the place.
Posted by: David Duff | Sunday, 04 May 2008 at 14:44