Well, the Sun has withdrawn their support for Labour. Not a huge surprise, considering the epic turd of a speech Brown pooed onto the country’s head yesterday. Brown wants a fight – the Sun’s going to give him one.
Still, at least the Daily Mail still loves our puritanical fuhrer (for now).
UPDATE: They’ve officially switched to the Conservatives. Scottish editions will be advocating “Anyone But Labour.”
It’s worth noting that the Sun tends to follow the prevailing mood of its readers. Did the Sun want grovelling apologies and promises of a completely different direction (like everyone else)? Has Brown’s determination to bolster his own position amongst the party faithful at the expense of… well, everyone else… signed, sealed and delivered the end of the Labour Party?
Letters From A Tory said...
30 Sep 09 at 9:29 am
Brown’s speech was indeed a big pile of turd, but that just makes me even more amazed that the Labour faithful decided to huddle round it rather than run away.
Stu said...
30 Sep 09 at 10:03 am
Did you read Sunny’s take on how not being backed by The Sun will make Labour stronger?
Classic.
MarcDB said...
30 Sep 09 at 10:10 am
The Sun follows the edicts of its owner Rupert Murdoch, not its readers. I’m not sure that the average Sun reader really believes ‘sound bite’ Dave is a better option than Comrade Brown, they just know they don’t like him and may (if they can be bothered) go to the polling station and vote for ‘anybody BUT Brown’.
As has been stated elsewhere, support within the Conservative Party for Cameron is broad, but shallow, and this I suspect is mirrored across the country. Should Cameron make a mistake between now and polling day, it is not impossible for Labour to retain power. After all, Comrade Brown is right about one thing – the recession would have been far worse following Conservative fiscal policy. If the OECD and the European Bank are right, and we would have seen unemployment rise to over 5 million in the UK without the fiscal stimulus, the overall reduction in the tax income (personal and corporate), allied to enormous expenditure on benefits would have led to an increased budget deficit anyway. The current huge deficit may actually be a small price to pay compared to the economic and social devastation caused by mass unemployment and business failures.
Scott said...
1 Oct 09 at 12:55 pm
The sun follows the winners. Always has, always will. End of.