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UK News » Blog Archive » Hung parliament haunts Conservatives … – The fear of a hung parliament is hanging over the opposition Conservative Party spring forum as their opinion poll lead dwindles weeks before an election. A fringe meeting on the issue drew a big crowd of activists.
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Mark Reckons: Are the Conservatives about to lose the general … – Now I know that this does not take into account the story in the marginals which could tell quite a different tale but even so according to this Labour would be 54 seats ahead of the Conservatives. It is unlikely that the Conservatives …
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YouGov show Tory lead dropping to TWO points… There is a startling YouGov poll in tomorrow’s Sunday Times. The topline figures, with changes from Thursday, are CON 37%(-2), LAB 35%(+2) (this is from the News of the World which doesn’t have the Lib Dem figure). The 2 point lead is the smallest YouGov have recorded since the election-that-never-was back in 2007 and if repeated at a general election would leave Labour comfortably the largest party in a hung Parliament.
The shocking headline in today’s Sunday Times, “Tory lead plunges to 2 points,” is, if accurate, a reflection on the poor leadership of the Conservative Party.
David Cameron and George Osborne are presenting the electorate with a series of wet ideas, presumably based on the latest suggestions of their spin doctors.
It is time for these boys to grow up. Leadership is about presenting your followers with a positive, charismatic vision, in which you believe passionately. It is about broadcasting your vision with authority, energy and conviction.
Tell us about the country you want to create, not about how you plan to tax us more. If we’re going to have to pay more, which we undoubtedly are, let it be for some greater good, not just to fix the mess that Brown has created.
What I always liked about William Hague when he was the Conservative leader was that he had a clear vision of the country he wanted to create.
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