Thursday, 16 October 2008

Fraser Nelson on what the Tories should do next

Fraser Nelson is a must read in the Spectator today as he looks at the way forwrad for the Tories now that the Brown bounce has begun

The Tories are producing dossiers but have failed to produce a clear narrative, or a campaigning message. As Enoch Powell once observed, the electorate like a tune they can whistle and Mr Brown’s genius has always been to give them that tune. His ‘no more boom and bust’ motif has been replaced by ‘we all got the American blues’. The Tories have not yet composed a tune with which to compete. From the wreckage of his economic bubble, Mr Brown has blown a new political bubble and is floating gleefully inside it. It is no good for Mr Cameron to grumble that it can’t last. The thing about bubbles is that one never can tell when they will burst.


Quite

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