The Curmudgeon

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Choices, Choices

As the Glorious Successor wines and dines the former chair of the Federal Reserve, doubtless with some exquisite, wafer-thin but deliciously minty after-dinner statistics to follow, an Observer/MORI poll has put the usual searching questions to the public. Gordon is "regarded as best able to handle a crisis" by sixty per cent of voters, "leads the most united team" according to fifty-four per cent, and is "best able to deal with the environment" according to thirty-four per cent. Twenty-two per cent believe Daveybloke will be more eco-friendly, seventeen per cent favour Ming the Moderate, and the remaining twenty-seven per cent - the second largest chunk - presumably favour None of the Above. Still, nobody is in any doubt that "Labour is on course for victory at the next general election", even though Daveybloke has promised to "be setting out an absolutely clear and compelling alternative to this government" and has pledged "to abolish stamp duty for first-time buyers on homes worth up to £250,000", which may compel some, I suppose. No other policy issue is mentioned by the Observer or, apparently, was discussed in the poll. Perhaps the differences between Daveybloke's cuddly conservatism (war, privatisation, Boris Johnson for mayor) and Gordon's continuity with change (war, privatisation, upholding the freedom to protest) are too obvious to mention. Daveybloke does seem to take a smaller suit size.

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