Welcome to the Conservative Corner! UPDATED What do you think of the cinema ad?

[Democratic Hawk]

Is the manifesto worth this solid Labour guy spending his pennies on?

Dave

[Banana Republic]

What does everyone think of the Tories' manifesto?

I agree with most of it. My only qualms are with immigration. I'm all for cracking down on asylum seekers but legal immigration levels are fine in my opinion.

[Banana Republic]

Huh? Pim Fortuyn's murderer became a Muslim exactly when?

He might have been talking about the filmaker's murderer, but I'm not even sure if he was Muslim.

[afleitch]

Sadly the manifesto launch has been lost in the Blair/Brown engineered love in. Labour also had a minor party rally in Oldham though not on the scale of the infamous '92 one ('We're all right!...we're all right!') But it's a good simple manifesto. This election is a verdict on 8 years of Labour rule, not on the Conservative years before that. That's what the public want- an honest debate about the relevant issues of today not the whole 'who did what in th 80's' routine we are all so used to.

[Silent Hunter]

Is the manifesto worth this solid Labour guy spending his pennies on?

Dave

Nah, just download it from the Tory website.

[afleitch]

http://www.conservatives.com/scripts/viewmedia.cfm?obj_id=121767

New Conservative cinema advert. I'd like to see if American posters here can see any similarities with their own style of political ad campaigns. Labours attack broadcast on Michael Howard was much more personal. The Conservative ad is short and effective, rememeber its big screen cinema stuff.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Labour:
Hate the Party
Love Tony Blair.

He could be a raging communist in all other aspects for all I care but he has taken a strong and courageour stand in support of the United States and therefore I cannot help but wish him the victory that he wants.  If you took a poll among US Republicans, you'd find a lot of folks who are 'thinking what I'm thinking'

I fear that a Conservative victory would cause the 'old labour' faction in Tony's party to rise up again and return the Labour Party to its more socialist roots.

[bullmoose88]

Labour:
Hate the Party
Love Tony Blair.

He could be a raging communist in all other aspects for all I care but he has taken a strong and courageour stand in support of the United States and therefore I cannot help but wish him the victory that he wants.  If you took a poll among US Republicans, you'd find a lot of folks who are 'thinking what I'm thinking'

I fear that a Conservative victory would cause the 'old labour' faction in Tony's party to rise up again and return the Labour Party to its more socialist roots.

Don,

Its only a matter of time before that happens anyway.

[Democratic Hawk]

Labour:
Hate the Party
Love Tony Blair.

He could be a raging communist in all other aspects for all I care but he has taken a strong and courageour stand in support of the United States and therefore I cannot help but wish him the victory that he wants.  If you took a poll among US Republicans, you'd find a lot of folks who are 'thinking what I'm thinking'

I fear that a Conservative victory would cause the 'old labour' faction in Tony's party to rise up again and return the Labour Party to its more socialist roots.

Don,

Its only a matter of time before that happens anyway.

Not while the likes of me, are in the Labour Party it won't! I've never defined myself as a socialist per se

Getting back to the cinema ad, I hope it backfires on Howard. The last thing I'd want to see when I'm at the cinema with wor lass is a political ad (you might find it hard to believe that I go to the cinema to get away from politics!) TV political broadcasts are one thing - but taking political ad's into the cinema is an unwelcome intrusion on people's leisure time! I hope the Labour Party doesn't go down that line

Dave

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Interesting ad, but definitely not something that would be shown in America because its too long at 82 seconds.  If it were done US style, it would be a 60 second ad with several abridged 30 second and maybe even 15 second versions of it used as well.

[The Man From G.O.P.]

I don't care what the polls say.  I think the Tories are perpetually doomed.    If the Lib Dems ever gain in popularity over Labour, they''ll be reduced to third party status.

I pitty the UK but that is what the voters there want.

No no no no, we won't see that, were going to gain back our seats from the lib dems in england and on a more personal note were getting monmouth (please god please) (it's quite an embarassment having a family from Aberavon) This time around it will be a big loss from labour to conservative (not nearly enough) with the libdems staying about the same, our next round in about 4 years will probably see a hung parliament with a close minority to either side with the libdems eating up labour seats at the first sign of weakness UNLESS and this is playing along with southpark we see a labour chancellor who will remain unnamed decides to make his move in which case we could be sitting at around 170 seats for quite a while but suggesting kennedy can inspire more people from the conservatives would be strange because all but the die hards went last time anyway, weel gain them back not to worry


unless im wrong..

its all very difficult to predict..

i want margaret thatcher back

im going to go cry

[afleitch]

Thanks for the bump. The Tory vote is currently flatlining, but I still believe Labour are being overstated. I think a lot of people agree with the Conservative policy on immigration, but are shy to admit it to the pollsters. I still think it will be 36-34-23 to Labour, but regional swings should see a Labour majority of 50.