Comments on: Appealing to The Sun FAIL http://charlottegore.com/2009/09/30/appealing-to-the-sun-fail.html Free Trade and Free Minds. Politics for Reasonable People. Independent Political Blogging. Top 20 Blog. Libertarianism. Laser Kitties. Tue, 10 May 2011 21:47:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Scott http://charlottegore.com/2009/09/30/appealing-to-the-sun-fail.html/comment-page-1#comment-7433 Scott Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:55:07 +0000 http://charlottegore.com/?p=1706#comment-7433 The sun follows the winners. Always has, always will. End of. The sun follows the winners. Always has, always will. End of.

]]> By: MarcDB http://charlottegore.com/2009/09/30/appealing-to-the-sun-fail.html/comment-page-1#comment-7388 MarcDB Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:10:00 +0000 http://charlottegore.com/?p=1706#comment-7388 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. 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.

]]> By: Stu http://charlottegore.com/2009/09/30/appealing-to-the-sun-fail.html/comment-page-1#comment-7387 Stu Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:03:30 +0000 http://charlottegore.com/?p=1706#comment-7387 Did you read Sunny's take on how not being backed by The Sun will make Labour stronger? Classic. Did you read Sunny’s take on how not being backed by The Sun will make Labour stronger?

Classic.

]]> By: Letters From A Tory http://charlottegore.com/2009/09/30/appealing-to-the-sun-fail.html/comment-page-1#comment-7386 Letters From A Tory Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:29:37 +0000 http://charlottegore.com/?p=1706#comment-7386 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. 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.

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