Morning must-reads
It’s payback time for the Prime Minister.
Michael White says that MPs should take Sir Thomas Legg’s audit on the chin…
…while Mary Riddell says that MPs’ gripes are not worth pursuing.
Quentin Letts says that sorry seems to be the easiest word.
A Tory MP invented the After Eight.
Andrew Pierce asks: has Cherie Blair no shame?
Julian Glover’s advice for David Cameron is that it’s very risky to explain your plans before an election.
Gideon Rachman says that Obama must start punching harder.
And Dominic Lawson says that the war on climate change is phoney.
Posted by Alex Singleton
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George Osborne impresses America
October 16th, 2009 17:4515 Comments
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Morning must-reads
October 16th, 2009 8:03
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Heather Brooke for Reformer of the Year
October 15th, 2009 12:33
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Lady Allsopp? Yes please, Dave. But surely not Lord Haselhurst?
October 15th, 2009 11:53
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Blair, Berlusconi, and the double dealing that is destroying Nato
October 15th, 2009 9:12
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For the life of me I cannot understand why the execrable Nu-Lav supporting Mary Risible isn’t writing for Toilets Maguire, or joining Sir Michael Kneepads at the other loony-left rag, the luvvies’ fave, the Grauniad.
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“has Cherie Blair no shame”
Shame is a notion her family displays no comprehension of.
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Mr Brogan, saw you on the the Newsnight MPs expenses discussion last night, I see you got to sit next to Heather Brooke, did you get her telephone number?
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“Julian Glover’s advice for David Cameron is that it’s very risky to explain your plans before an election”
Yes, it is – but he was pushed into this rash move by constant media pressure to advance some clear ideas to deal with Labour’s recession.
While there can be no doubt that Gordon and Labour must be removed at all cost, for me, it further reinforces my belief that Cameron’s judegement is somewhat questionable.
Intention is everything – as in the very bold and right statements about what the Tories intend to do about Britain’s dealings with Europe.However, George’s economic ‘PBR’ was a premature indulgence, even if it was an honest, and fairly good list of ideas and policies for getting Britain’s finances back on track.
I keep saying it. Labour don’t need honest statements from the Tories in order to make up lies about them – so why give this most corrupt and deceitful Labour regime a helping hand?
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Phil, I wish I was joking, but I’m afraid I’m not. Whenever there has been any kind of policy announcement from Cameron’s band of brothers, a clarification has been required. This is not only because the media are too lazy to allow themselves any actual thought, but, sadly, because some of Cameron’s senior colleagues have not the slightest understanding of the task they’ve been asked to perform. Andrew Lansley is a case in point. Has he ever persuaded you he actually understands the subject he’s addressing?
Any optimism I have for a Cameron administration is centred on the hope they will know when they don’t actually understand something and ask a genuine expert. Brown doesn’t understand he has no grasp on reality and he is too awful for his supporters to be able to believe he could be so detached. That is why Cameron is better than Brown, but still not good enough for me.
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Sheumais
Andrew’s being dragged along by the demands of his leader, rightly petrified that Labour will try to scare the public about Tory NHS privatisation.
I’m wondering whether Cameron’s unsustainable NHS spending pledges are actually an extreme form of defence.
How could Labour possibly [though they are] still warn about Tory NHS privatisation, when on the other hand Cameron’s being criticised for pledging to spend too much on the NHS?The only flaw in this plan [if intentional] is that it’s too clever to have been thought of by our Dave.
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Phil, I can hear it now, “We have increased spending on front-line care, but, as we’re all in this together, it is right the NHS budget had to share the pain.”
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