Pollard's in anti-Gordon mood today
I'll try and leave a comment on the Spectator blog [1], but I've had not had much luck in the past with getting them published, so I'll also revel here in my moment of fame - Stephen Pollard, of Maida Vale Manifesto fame, has outed himself as a reader of this blog[2]!He is of course totally correct (although what's with the 'matey' - is that meant to sound hard?) about Gordon Brown's poll ratings and my criticism. Although it is early days, and many of the problems have had little to do with Brown, since I made that post one could not say the performance of Gordon Brown has augured well for an election (although of course he has had the achievement of making Oliver Kamm declare he will switch his vote to Labour at a general election).
On the other hand, of course Pollard can't gloat about his sagacity. It is true that he has made posts claiming Blair was the best PM and Brown would be a disaster, but this is Pollard, and of course he has made posts claiming the opposite. If you take both sides of the argument you'll always be right, but it also means that you'll always be wrong, too. And so it was only just over 18 months ago that Pollard said:
If Labour is to pull itself round, the Chancellor needs to take over soon. With every passing day, Labour’s internal wounds grow deeper, and the Conservatives grow stronger. The electorate know that Tony Blair now stands for little bar the lame and morally bankrupt occupation of office.
A post for every eventuality - I expect if Brown recovers he'll dig out the positive one above.
[1] Hurrah, it's turned up. Could be slightly better formatted.
[2] Or maybe a friend sent it to him.
Labels: Spectator
posted by Matthew @ 12/17/2007 01:11:00 PM
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