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Newsnight's Hatchet Job on Tory Northern Pretentions

Paxo's chums stuff the Tories.
Submitted by Tabman on 22 January 2007 - 8:51pm | Categories:

Last Friday's Newsnight's first item contains a particularly amusing attack on the Conservatives. In just one brief piece it manages to combine news that a Conservative councillor called his Labour counterpart a "cripple" (nice man, obviously), a vox pop that implies Cameron is all talk and no substance, scepticism that the Tories will ever amount to much outside of the South East, and pictures of Samantha Cameron's 700 acre country seat (just one dwelling in her family's extensive property portfolio, apparently).

Enjoy!


Comments

On 23 January 2007 - 10:11am, Tony Ferguson (not verified) wrote:

Today's opinion poll will disappoint the Tories. All this Labour scandal and they are still on 37%. the terrible Marr interview seems to be part of the problem.


On 24 January 2007 - 8:23am, Jim wrote:

The Tories are never going to poll much above 40% until they actually have come up with some popular policies, or just some policies full stop. A protest vote at the incumbents will only get you so far, and I guess the Tories have already reached that limit. However, it may still be enough even on it's own to achieve a 'victory' by depriving Labour of an overall majority.


On 25 January 2007 - 10:17am, Tabman wrote:

Is any party going to poll above 40% from now on? My guess is only on a highly differential turn-out. Support for the "big two" has been declining steadily since the 1950s, and in the last election was below 70% in total.

There was a piece on Radio 5 yesterday about class attitudes, and the point was made that 40 years ago social class pretty much dictated peoples' attitudes to taxation, public services, etc etc. Now that correlation has very often disappeared.

Another interesting point made was how residual "working-class" identification amongst people resolutely middle-class (by measures of income, education and attitudes) was an important (although declining) part of Labour's retention of its core constituency.
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