The election that is setting us all on fire
8:37am
By common consent, just about every political commentator concluded last week that Labour had had a truly terrible start to the election campaign while the Tories’ presentation had been near flawless. 'The Tories have got the better of the argument', was the universal chorus.
Today, Populus reports in the Times that the Tory lead has slid to a mere three points ahead of Labour.
Go figure.
As said here over and over again, the runaway winner so far is ‘none of the above’. The public have had it with Gordon but just don’t believe Dave. Somehow I doubt that yesterday’s launch of the Tories’ little blue book with its invitation to ‘join the government of Britain’ is going to cause the electorate to slough off their epic distrust and cynicism towards the entire political class.
I guess the televised...