Though Cowards Flinch

Following my short piece on the Purnell photograph, I discovered planted among a couple of BBC articles a few more comments from senior Conservatives which really show what pillocks they all are.

My favourite one was this, from William Hague:

“Clearly they’re thinking in the Labour Party that if they don’t have an election soon, then Brown will be rumbled, and people will be fed up with him in very short order.”

I know an awful lot of Labour Party members and not one of them is thinking anything like that. If Mr Hague had put his thoughts to a Labour supporter, the more likely answer would be “Oh please not an early election, our constituency parties are still putting their finances together so we can kick your arse from here to Tunbridge Wells.”

It seems like testosterone overdrive. Young Dave is clearly thinking with bodily utensils used to a different form of activity. His comment that Brown has, “got himself into a position where he either bottles it or he has given us a hell of a lot of notice of his intentions“ made me chuckle. Anyone with a brain can see that the election is going to happen between now and next Christmas – and the only times for that are spring and autumn.

Better even than that however was Cameron’s claim to get aggressive with people on job-seekers allowance who refused work. I suppose that’s alright for him since those people are unlikely to vote Tory in a month of Sundays. Just to examine his claim of being tough on lazy people however, this is Cameron saying that unless qualified drill technicians (for example) agree to work in Burger King, that they’ll have their job-seekers allowance slashed by Cameron. Brilliant!

Mind you, dear Ed Balls is hardly the sharpest tool in the box with his replies that Cameron can’t show where the money for all this is going to come from. Half of what Cameron wants to do is slash government expenditure or levy new taxes – the airline tax and the cutting of job-seekers allowance are just two examples. Come on people, we’re wittier than that.

Cameron says that we’d better have an election…or else! Oh no, what’s he going to do? Invade parliament with his mob of Oxford Union members? Crivens! Hide the port!

Pah.