All entries for Saturday 08 April 2006

Bird Flu

: 08 Apr 2006 17:29 |  Tags: Bird Flu Me Trying To Be Funny Ohshitweareallgonnadie Satire Scaremongering |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

When was the ground lost?

Listening to David Cameron give his Spring Conference speech in Manchester, the thing that strikes me is that he is walking all over traditional Labour territory without anyone fighting back.

On the environment especially, Cameron isn't promising policies, but an approach which Labour should have been advancing for the past nine years, but have failed to do so.

For the Conservatives to be so far ahead of the government on this issue suggests that something has gone hurrendously wrong in the Labour Party. Is it a conflict between the DTI and DEFRA? Is it the Chancellor putting his foot down? Have they simply taken their eye off the ball? Who knows.

But listening to Cameron (who so far has been impressive), I don't see how Labour will fight back against the Tories come the next election now that it is Cameron, not Blair/Brown, who rhetorically appears to be a policy innovator, even if that means stealing Labour's traditional clothing.

: 08 Apr 2006 11:49 |  Tags: Conservatives David Cameron Environment Labour Politics Tony Blair |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem