A ComRes poll in tomorrows Independent will show the following
CON 45(+5) LAB 26(-2) LD 17(-1)
What more is there really to say. Labour are falling apart at the seams. The Lib Dems who you think would manage something better are also dropping. The Tories are looking forward to a massive majority based on these polls. It cannot come soon enough.
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According to the Sun
Update 09:50: According to the BBC he will need an operation.PETER Mandelson was recovering this morning after being rushed to hospital last night with a mystery health crisis.
The new Business Secretary was taken ill as he dined with health minister Lord Darzi.
Sources refuse to confirm it was a heart-related condition.
He was whisked to St Mary's hospital, Paddington, from the west London restaurant.
Today government sources refused to give details of Lord Mandy's illness.
But a source said: "It isn't life threatening."
Lord Mandelson was having dinner with health minister and world-renowned surgeon Lord Darzi to discuss NHS reform.
The fact that the internationally-renowned surgeon was with him and unable to assist suggests it was a serious attack.
Sources say the Business Secretary will have to return to hospital for treatment.
But the scare means he will miss the inaugural meeting of the new National Economic Council this morning.
According to the Telegraph and calculations performed by Capital Economics the current tax burden is the worst it has been since 1991.
The household tax burden rose from 34 per cent of income to 34.6 per cent in the first quarter of the year - the highest level since the spring of 1991.
The figures, calculated from official data published on Friday, underline how far taxes have risen since Labour took office in 1997. They come after the scrapping of the 10p tax rate caused an internal Labour mutiny.
Despite the Government's headline tax rates remaining unchanged, a variety of so-called stealth taxes have increased the burden.
So the next time Gordon says taxes are down at PMQ's you can tell him it is yet another of his "Brownies".
Families hit by greatest tax burden since 1991 - Telegraph
After a bad weekend for the Tories, with Snouts in Trough alerts for 3 MEP's and the nannygate affair of Caroline Spelman, this week has got off to a rather better start for the Tories.
First we have tonights Dispatches programme on Channel 4 entitled "Gordon Brown: Where did it all go Wrong". This was illuminating in that in one hour I have never seen so many Political cock-ups or so many Cabinet Ministers ready to criticise a man who was their Messiah only one short year ago. Catch it again here shortly.
Second we have a Populus poll in the Times in which public support for Labour and Gordon Brown continues to plunge to new lows with the Prime Minister's leadership rating falling to a level even below that suffered by Iain Duncan Smith.
Labour’s rating has dropped by 4 points since early May to 25 per cent, with the Conservatives up 5 points to 45 per cent. This is by far the worst Labour position since 1997 and the best Tory one. The Liberal Democrats are up one point at 20 per cent.
The Tories may have more to think about with the vote on 42 days later this week which appears popular with the public but not so popular with a former Attorney General, The Lord Advocate of Scotland, Police Chiefs and MI5. However another vote on matters to do with changing Coroners and removal of juries from inquests may be just as hard to get past the commons.
Gordon Brown slides to lower poll rating than Iain Duncan Smith - Times Online
Ok then it's only in a comic book but surely it'll soon be coming true otherwise why do we need 42 days detention.
Have no fear, Brown is here to help save the world - but only in new comic book 'Captain Britain' | Mail Online
A couple of days ago I heard Wendy on the radio and wondered if she had had elocution lessons as her voice has considerably toned down.
Now we hear that, according to Wendy, Labour's soul searching in Scotland is over! Not if the image shown here is anything to go by.
One wonderful quote from the interview when asked How much support and help do you get from Gordon Brown?
Wendy Replies:
I talk to the Prime Minister when I have to. I suspect the last time I spoke to him was a month ago. It's not a daily conversation.Seems to me she is trying to distance herself from him if at all possible.
I see that Gordon Brown's Labour party are again blaming an Office Junior for another disaster that has befallen them. Where do they get these patsies from.
Listening to the various Labour Ministers being rolled out to blame it on the junior I was just cringing.
Jon Snow made a good point speaking to Jack Straw when he asked how come if no-one else knew of David Abrahams's donations, why was he given a ringside seat at Tony Blair's departure.
How they can expect us to believe the story that he didn't realise it was just slightly shady to third party the money is beyond belief.
This stinks, something is rotting in the corpse of the Labour Party.
BBC NEWS | Politics | Labour boss quits over donations
The big Feartie will be in more trouble now as his Government goes from bad to worse. he is now presiding over a government with the biggest deficit to the Tories in 15 years. The last time the Tory lead was this high was before Black Wednesday, which says much for his leadership and "Vision".
The Poll from October 10/11 will be a bitter pill for Gordon to swallow after a bad bad week for him.
UPDATE: Must correct this entry. This is not the biggest lead for the Tories(they had a bigger lead as recently as March) but the highest level of support they have had in 15 years. This is probably even better than a big lead as I suspect that Labour still has a few points to fall.
Gordon Brown hit by Tory poll surge - Telegraph
Despite all the predictions about a general election in October or maybe November or maybe not, it seems that Labour MP's in Scotland do not want to have their trotters removed from the Westminster trough.
They have been polled and are against an election this year by margin of 2-to-1 despite the polls that show Labour doing well after Clunkers speech in Bournemouth.
Their worries, as told to the BBC, appear to be to be with the weather rather than any thought they might lose their seats, of course the fact they just got beaten in Scotland by the SNP has nothing to do with it.
Apparently Jim Devine was one of those against the election saying
"I remember the last October election in 1974. It is cold, it is dark, we are liable to have a foot of snow from Aberdeen to Aberystwyth. This is not the time for an election. What's the rush? We only had an election two years ago. I think he should wait at least until next May."My arse, in Scotland at least, I am in no doubt Labour would get the kicking they deserve losing seats to all parties.
Brown Grasps Invisible womanWomen voters are said not to like "confrontational politics" but this kind of cross-party camaraderie, cosying up to very strange bedfellows, makes for a creepy kind of osmosis that seems the opposite of democracy. A brief trip to Bournemouth felt like attending a sales convention for moderately successful piece of kitchen equipment whose chief attraction is that anyone can use it.Well said. His appeal is based on drivel dressed up as policies, mostly stolen from others and dressed up as new. Indeed many of the items he spoke about in his speech were mere pipe dreams with no policy or money to back them up.
Perhaps, if a general election is called, Brown will produce the miracle cure for all these ills that he's been storing at the back of his Downing Street cupboard for precisely this, his special moment. Somehow I doubt it. He's a man committed to redistribution - but of the timid kind. So what precisely are these "traditional values" to which Mr Brown appeals? And why are some women so easily conned?Some good questions that need answering and some food for thought for us all.
Nice to see the esteemed Secretary of State for International Development and former Secretary of State for Scotland Douglas Alexander, in his role as Labour's Election chief, thinks that they are ready to go for an election whenever his esteemed leader has manged to summon up the courage to go the Country. Douglas is of course very pally with the clunker as he is a son of the Manse as well as being one of his chief toadies back in the early 90's.
This is of course the man who presided over the 2007 elections in Scotland, with such great effectiveness that he managed to disenfranchise over 100,00 Scots, many of them likely to have been his own supporters. Since then the SNP appear to have bolstered their position in Scotland whilst Labour have looked stunned by the defeat.
Of course, his aim may have just been to get rid of Jack McConnell, and have his sister Wendy installed as the chief Brown Toady in Scotland. If this was the case then he succeeded in his cunning plan.
Sorry just had to put up this photo again as it is such a gem!
PM's election chief: we are ready for poll | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics
Apparently Clunker Brown has decreed a coronation and Labour MSP's are bending over backwards to stand aside for the chosen one to be crowned.
Alex Salmond will be laughing for some time to come.
Second chance for Wendy Alexander
Are these the final plaintive gasps from the dying Labour Party.
According to the Independent, Jack McConnell has launched an appeal for a cross-party alliance of Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat voters to stop the SNP winning.
Apparently
Mr McConnell said Tory and Liberal Democrat voters should back Labour as the "only way" to stop Alex Salmond, the SNP leader, taking power after a YouGov poll put the SNP on 38 per cent, eight points ahead of Labour, and on course to become the biggest party at Holyrood.I can think of only one appropriate response to this suggestion. Turn away if easily offended!
I see Mr McConnell has now not ruled out a future Referendum on Independence for Scotland. It appears that under certain circumstances he thinks it might be possible.
Amazing what the thought of a slaughter at the coming elections does to a Politician.
It was only back in November 2006 that he said the following during a TV interview on the BBC's Sunday AM programme,
People north of the Border would "think twice" about independence given the option in a referendum. He also argued that holding any referendum on independence would be the wrong move for Scotland because it would create economic uncertainty.
Sir Alistair Graham has been forced to step down from his job as chairman of the "Sleaze Watchdog" after disagreements with the Labour Sleaze chief Tony Blair.
Launching his final report as chairman, Sir Alistair said Mr Blair should never have promised to be "purer than pure" unless he was going to "follow through" with action.
Mr Blair is keen to escape the cloud hanging over him because of the police inquiry into loans for peerages allegations when he steps down at the end of June.
He is also still under public scrutiny for his role in the Iraq Dossier that helped take us into the invasion of Iraq.
This was also the subject of a question at PMQ's today when Conservative MP Stuart Jackson asked about parliamentary standards commissioner Sir Alistair Graham, who said Mr Blair had damaged trust in politics, asking if Mr Blair was "qualified" to advise his successor on drawing up a new ministerial code.
Mr Blair said: "I completely disagree with Sir Alistair Graham. He is entitled to his opinion and I am entitled to mine".
So again Mr Blair rides roughshod over anyone who dares argue with him and believes himself above criticism.
Sleaze watchdog says Blair 'failed to live up to promises' - Independent Online Edition > UK Politics
The BBC has had to suspend its £150m online education Service BBC JAM as it has fallen foul of EEC regulations. It follows complaints from commercial online companies to the European Commission about the £150m project.
The project was set up despite warnings and strict conditions placed on it in 2003 about likely impacts on other companies.
Under the BBC's charter, the corporation is charged with promoting learning for school-aged children.
One of the conditions BBC Jam was set up with was that half of its content budget had to be spent on commissioning material from outside the BBC.
Conservative broadcasting spokesman Ed Vaizey said:
"This is a mess of the government's own making.Oh well that's another few million of our money the Government has wasted.
"They told the BBC to set up Jam even though a number of education companies were already providing those services.
"We have constantly raised concerns about BBC Jam and its impact on the private sector. It does not surprise us that the service has been suspended. The blame rests fairly with the government."
"The Trust has requested BBC management to prepare fresh proposals for how the BBC should deliver the Charter obligation to promote formal education and learning, meeting the online needs to school age children.An official statement is available here.
"Despite a rigorous approval process involving the BBC Governors, the Department for Culture Media and Sport, and the European Commission resulting in extensive conditions on the service, BBC Jam has continued to attract complaints from the commercial sector about the parameters of its activities."
Apparently after its failed attempt to have one over Dave using the Chameleon, Labour are looking at another attempt to smear him using the Robbie Williams song 'Life Thru a Lens'
The song, which contains lyrics such as: "You sound so funny with your voice all plummy/Now your cheques bounced better run to your mummy ... You're scared of the poor and needy/Is that why you're all inbreedy," will be used to further send up Cameron's toffee-nosed credentials.
"Although it's now a few years old, it contains lyrics which we thought were perfect for a piss-take film on Cameron," I'm told.
"At the moment it's just a question of editing the best bits and using it with the best clips.
"It may well be something that gets used in a few months' time."
"I am the Reverend I.M. Jolly. That's Jolly, spelt M-O-R-B-I-D."
I see even the Labour Heartlands in Scotland are turning against them.
Labour are going to stop campaigning on their achievements, tricky one that with so little achieved and concentrate on a negative campaign. With their ability to lie, lie and then lie agian this could be interesting as they will almost certainly be caught out a they try and spin themselves back to their troughs.
Apparently the campaign will be as follows:
"There is nothing that Labour can say that will change peoples' minds about Labour. There is no point in having a positive campaign because it doesn't wash. There isn't a bit of evidence to suggest that going positive will make any difference. They don't know Jack and they don't like Labour."Just about says it all for the contempt Labour now has for the public.
The BBC were last night stopped from broadcasting an item about the "Cash for Honours" scandal that has Tony Blair's fingerprints all over it (The Scandal that is).
The Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, a well known lackey of Tony Blair, obtained the injunction on Friday night at a hearing which lasted about two hours at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Lord Goldsmith's office said he had acted
"Completely independently of government" on the matter.
The aptly named Colin Brown has a story in the unIndependent that purports to show how "unfair" the boundary changes, that are coming in, are on Labour. It mangles the facts to say that because Labour will lose some seats, it is unfair.
In reality the Boundary Commission have still not managed to sort this out properly despite having six years to do so. Also note that despite having had the recommendations for more than four months Labour has done nothing with them yet. The process to make the changes law could take over three months, so perhaps they are keeping them in abeyance, in case of a snap General Election caused by some of their recent scandals.
This is a typical Labour "spin" to try and gain sympathy and blame those nasty Tories.
New Labour "Whiter than White".
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