SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2012
Who You Calling Swivel-Eyed?
In a Telegraph interview the drippingly wet Greg Barker when asked about the need for a change of direction following a poll giving UKIP 11% support and surveys showing 10% of Tory voters from 2010 have switched to UKIPretorted:
“We don’t need to follow UKIP into swivel-eyed rhetoric.”As ConservativeHome notes, that is hardly the way to win back lost supporters. What struck Guido most was that Greg Barker, a screaming climate change racket fanatic, is really on dodgy ground with that line.Look into his eyes…
UPDATE: Within a minute of publishing Greg Barker sportingly tweets:
Who You Calling Swivel-Eyed?: In a Telegraph interview the drippingly wet Greg Barker when asked about the need...bit.ly/IOsaY3
@GuidoFawkes even I have to smile at that one!
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FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012
Ken Losing Credibility Here
When the LibDems are making bar charts about your financial fakery you are beyond being in trouble. Mark Pack takes the credit for this chart. Don’t think Paddick will be winning here…
Another Blairite has come out of the woodwork to condemn Ken’s campaign. Andrew McMenamin is advising Ken to sack his campaign managers “the people running the politics of your campaign have messed up. Maybe that mess up was because they did not account for your mistakes, but that does not lessen their responsibility.” He also tells Ken to “abandon the core vote strategy you have followed”. Not sure that is wise, given Ken is now of necessity running a core-core strategy…
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