Vapid and pointless. If he's so keen to be green (I should copyright that, it'll be the next campaign slogan otherwise) he shouldn't print any of these leaflets and save some trees.
How is this a clause 4 moment by any definition? There is nothing here which would cause anyone to balk at signing up - including most Liberal Democrats and Labour party members. Most of the party membership, in my judgement, still strongly back Cameron, but this won't prove that or silence the dinosaurs - even Tebbit should be able to sign up without flinching.
February 27, 2006 at 11:21 PM
Anonymous
said...
"Built To Last" is a pretty crap slogan. Sounds like an ad for a Transit van.
Im voting BNP ,anonymous "webmong" that I am (I cant be bothered to sign up for a blog name )
February 28, 2006 at 12:13 AM
Anonymous
said...
God how I hate nefarious vision statements!
February 28, 2006 at 12:14 AM
Anonymous
said...
There must be some decent captions for the pictures on page 3. And what is the significance of the empty blue box next to the picture of Cameron?
February 28, 2006 at 12:24 AM
Anonymous
said...
Same old tory b*ll*cks dressed up in a pretty package to try to make it exceptable to voters. There is no real content which seems to be a common problem at the moment with all three major parties, too many visions not enough solid policy.
Dave's load of waffle!Doesn't Tory HQ read your blog Guido? The 'clause 4' of the Conservative Party is the maintaining of the link between church and state.Call for the disestablishment of the Church of England Dave then we would know that you are serious. Gordon has already said he would give up appointing the bishops if he were PM so some progress is being made.
This is only one half of the exercise. Stay tuned for some old style tories to be wheeled on (ie Polecat, big donors ect) to rail against this new chap Cameron and his pinko plans, thus proving that the party is actually changing. We all know it isn't, but then, all it takes is a few gullible people in the right constituencies....
Wow, he has really lost the plot hasn't he? What a complete load of codswhallop.
February 28, 2006 at 11:33 AM
Anonymous
said...
...point I was making is that the rebranding will work all the better if there are some "classic" Tories complaining (under orders from Opus Dave) about all the change eg "We don't like this new, forward thinking, change embracing, reaching out conservatism! We just can't undstand why thousands of people are joining our single mum loving, environment saving ect ect....."
Tell you what Rigger, how about, for an extra grand say, new members can have their membership backdated to June 1997 (when I was 9)? On the other hand there's definitely a market for "Conservative before it was cool" t-shirts.
Vacuous flatulant guff. Exactly what voters love to hear. I expect it'll work
February 28, 2006 at 12:29 PM
Anonymous
said...
The real question is why the BBC thought this tripe should lead the news.
February 28, 2006 at 2:44 PM
Anonymous
said...
Good idea on the t shirts Henry.
As for railing against him,I would but for the facts that a)disunity might damage the flow of capital into our little war chest-I am a man of priciple and b)noone would listen.
But we're all just euphoric about thegroundbreaking changes Daves making to our vocabulary.This is a clause four moment in a Countdown stylee.dup dupdupdup dup dupdupdup dup dooodly doo doooo.
The conservatives will be rebranded soon,somehthing like the Social Liberal New Conservative party. Anyone else any new ideas for our new name?
No matter - the wishy washy soppy soppy liberal language will infuriate the cornerstone neo-fascists and this in itself amuses me, even though i suspect that they have enough intelligence to keep quiet about it all and not play ball with Big Dave (yet).
What i want to know is if Nick Robinson is a fully signed up member of the "new compassionate conservative with fairy cakes" agenda. It's the only explanation for the bizarre act of leading with this non-story on the Beeb.
March 1, 2006 at 8:18 AM
Anonymous
said...
Semiotician,
Dave's outside the main frame because he thinks outside the box. At least that's how I interpret this waffle. It's obviously been dreamt up by marketing consultants. However,I must admit I did spend most of my marketing lectures perving at the girlies in the next row, so I might have missed something.
RM
March 1, 2006 at 9:22 AM
Anonymous
said...
Im sorry but that statement is a combination of things that cant be disagreed with and then the final one... this seems to be a clever way of getting democratic legitimacy for the candidates list reforms, which have been very unpopular with the associations. Most wont realise the significance of this, will vote yes and then have it thrown back in their faces should they dare question the 50% women gold-list policy.
24 comments:
Vapid and pointless. If he's so keen to be green (I should copyright that, it'll be the next campaign slogan otherwise) he shouldn't print any of these leaflets and save some trees.
How is this a clause 4 moment by any definition? There is nothing here which would cause anyone to balk at signing up - including most Liberal Democrats and Labour party members. Most of the party membership, in my judgement, still strongly back Cameron, but this won't prove that or silence the dinosaurs - even Tebbit should be able to sign up without flinching.
"Built To Last" is a pretty crap slogan. Sounds like an ad for a Transit van.
That's only 6.
7: Apple pie and lots of it. Yummy.
Yeah yeah, whatever.
Im voting BNP ,anonymous "webmong" that I am
(I cant be bothered to sign up for a blog name )
God how I hate nefarious vision statements!
There must be some decent captions for the pictures on page 3. And what is the significance of the empty blue box next to the picture of Cameron?
Same old tory b*ll*cks dressed up in a pretty package to try to make it exceptable to voters. There is no real content which seems to be a common problem at the moment with all three major parties, too many visions not enough solid policy.
Dave's load of waffle!Doesn't Tory HQ read your blog Guido? The 'clause 4' of the Conservative Party is the maintaining of the link between church and state.Call for the disestablishment of the Church of England Dave then we would know that you are serious.
Gordon has already said he would give up appointing the bishops if he were PM so some progress is being made.
Twaddle!
This is only one half of the exercise. Stay tuned for some old style tories to be wheeled on (ie Polecat, big donors ect) to rail against this new chap Cameron and his pinko plans, thus proving that the party is actually changing. We all know it isn't, but then, all it takes is a few gullible people in the right constituencies....
Full text of the statement here.
I think the polecat right are smarter than you give them credit for. They're not really taking the bait on this one.
It's a chav charter.
We're gonna be swamped with new members.
Wow, he has really lost the plot hasn't he? What a complete load of codswhallop.
...point I was making is that the rebranding will work all the better if there are some "classic" Tories complaining (under orders from Opus Dave) about all the change eg "We don't like this new, forward thinking, change embracing, reaching out conservatism! We just can't undstand why thousands of people are joining our single mum loving, environment saving ect ect....."
Tell you what Rigger, how about, for an extra grand say, new members can have their membership backdated to June 1997 (when I was 9)? On the other hand there's definitely a market for "Conservative before it was cool" t-shirts.
Vacuous flatulant guff. Exactly what voters love to hear. I expect it'll work
The real question is why the BBC thought this tripe should lead the news.
Good idea on the t shirts Henry.
As for railing against him,I would but for the facts that a)disunity might damage the flow of capital into our little war chest-I am a man of priciple and b)noone would listen.
But we're all just euphoric about thegroundbreaking changes Daves making to our vocabulary.This is a clause four moment in a Countdown stylee.dup dupdupdup dup dupdupdup dup dooodly doo doooo.
The conservatives will be rebranded soon,somehthing like the
Social Liberal New Conservative party.
Anyone else any new ideas for our new name?
Do they have a Scottish and Welsh version by any chance?
Of course there is no substance.
No matter - the wishy washy soppy soppy liberal language will infuriate the cornerstone neo-fascists and this in itself amuses me, even though i suspect that they have enough intelligence to keep quiet about it all and not play ball with Big Dave (yet).
What i want to know is if Nick Robinson is a fully signed up member of the "new compassionate conservative with fairy cakes" agenda. It's the only explanation for the bizarre act of leading with this non-story on the Beeb.
Semiotician,
Dave's outside the main frame because he thinks outside the box. At least that's how I interpret this waffle. It's obviously been dreamt up by marketing consultants. However,I must admit I did spend most of my marketing lectures perving at the girlies in the next row, so I might have missed something.
RM
Im sorry but that statement is a combination of things that cant be disagreed with and then the final one...
this seems to be a clever way of getting democratic legitimacy for the candidates list reforms, which have been very unpopular with the associations. Most wont realise the significance of this, will vote yes and then have it thrown back in their faces should they dare question the 50% women gold-list policy.