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Roundup for 09 April 2010

On the air, tonight, from Chichester.  Didn’t do Somerset.  Too bright and sunny.

10 point lead for the Tories, though, to round the week off.

The Dailies

• Sacked: Bad-boy Labour-man gets shown the door (auntie)
• Labour criticize Tory DNA database stance, Big Brother Watch has some things to say about this one (guardian, bbw)
  • If Dylan or any of the other lads over at BBW are reading this, get your backsides in gear and give us that manifesto!!  (please) 
• Daily Mail: Senior Labour figures embroiled in Twitter scandal

The Blogs

• Moray MacLennan victim of Twitter persecution: t-blog, Paul Waugh
• Dale: Friday night caption contest – not at all obvious, Osborne bitch-slaps Darling, campaign “too presidential”
• Whiteside:  Pot meets kettle in Cumbria

the credo

• Nothing today.  Fighting traffic into the sunny south.

Roundup for 08 April 2010

A bit late, this evening, with the roundup.  Thank the government for that.

The Dailies

• Brown pressure piles on as more big-business backs Cameron (telegraph)
• Labour: We have no strategy for Sarah Brown (guardian)
• Nick-on-Nick action (auntie)
• Lock the bastard up. (dailymail)

The Blogs

• Keep Right Online forgot they could vote, it’s been so long since a PM was actually – you know – elected
• Greenhorns pimping for Green (norfolkblogger)
• Dale: Being Dave, and who won this one?
• Whiteside: Cumbria Conservatives drumming up support

the credo

• Social Media and the general election – Part I
• Sweet Liberty: Michael Caine gets behind Dave… for a while
• Brown ignores public… publicly
• Who the hell is the credo?

Roundup for 07 April 2010

The Dailies

• Gordon “I-promise-not-to-stay-so-long-next-time” Brown says some things, retreats back into obscurity: Promises fixed-term parliaments if re-elected (telegraph)
• BBC invents flash story: “Leaders clash on tax and spending” <– Actually, it seems to us it was a fairly unremarkable PMQs (auntie)
• The Tory business campaign proceeds apace (dailymail)
• And now, bastards… Home Secretary threatens to breach EU human rights ruling (guardian)
• 68 business leaders now behind Tory NI plans (auntie)
• Cavendish: Politicians beyond satire (telegraph)
• ITEM: Gord’s got a website. Awww, look at the PM being all hip
• Waugh: You can’t polish a turd

The Blogs

• Dale: Clegg shoots self in foot, blames bullet, Labour abandons Norwich North, Brown shoots Foot in self.
• Nick to Gord: Put down and piss off (iaindale)
• Prescott’s lad lies to C4 news. How do you get them to talk? (guido)
• Tory Bear Caption Contest (our entry below)

the credo

• Boris’ guide to the election
• Brown of the day
• Lord Mandelson: “I can haz potaterz!”

Roundup for 06 April 2010

The Dailies

• Telegraph: General Election 2010 Live
• Cameron welcomes start of race (telegraph)
• Delingpole: My mate Dave
• Telegraph launches election blog
• Downing and dirty election? (dailymail)
• BBC impartial in election coverage: Thompson (guardian)
• Clegg’s election challenge (auntie)
• Essex voters countdown to election (auntie)
• Labour sacks incompetent Moffat in East Lothian constituency (guardian)
• BNP grilled over Griffin assassin (mirror)
• Moncrieff: “Good riddance to this rotten Parliament” (dailymail)
• The wars of Westmorland: Keep your eye on Cumbria (auntie)

The Blogs

• Nick Pickles: Normanton, Pontefract, Castleford
• Craig Murray: Labour “buoyed by an obviously rogue telephone poll”
• Iain Martin has reasons to be cheerful
• Cranmer: Brown thinks “we have the brains of an amoeba”
• Starling: The lay of the land in Norfolk
• BBC bollocksed it up, again (starling)
• Election must-reads from the FT blog

the credo

• Pickles’ pal’s posters pilfered by parliamentary prat
• Yvette Cooper (Labour) ignores constituents
• Someone at SkyNews must be having a laugh…

Roundup for 05 Apr 2010

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The Dailies

• Sir John Major swings lavishly, hits target (telegraph)
• Opinion polls put Tories well on course for majority at election (skynews)
• Major recap:  “Deception unworthy of the office of Prime Minister” (daily mail)
• Labour’s Darling beats NI dead horse, again (telegraph)
• National Insurance: What is it, exactly? (bbc)
• Lord Tebbit: “Go for it, David!” (telegraph)
• The BBC on the Lib-Dem Rail Fund (bbc)
• Balls’ ballsy false dilemma: Tax cuts or school funding (bbc)
• Victoria Cross soldier snubs Brown, considers poking him in chops (daily mail)
• Brown crushes “green shoots of recovery”: Tories (daily mail)
• BNP Assassin sacked (skynews)

The Blogs

• Cameron credo puts naysayers to rest (t-blogs)
• David Cameron promises Cancer Drug Fund, if elected May 6 (topnews)
• Gordon Brown’s failure on immigration (lancaster&fleetwood tories)
• Brown set to visit Palace at 1530BST, Tuesday (political scrapbook)
• Money and lies: Brown and Blair have the FOI heat turned up under them (conspiringtimes)
• Love letter: Cameron “young, energetic, insightful and smart” (bahamas press)
• Thanks, Labour spin-doctors!  “Labour depict David Cameron as Gene Hunt” (whiteside)

the credo

• Major needles Brown: “…Exchequer now borrows almost £3.3billion every week simply to cover Labour’s debts.”
• Boris to Brown:  Bugger off
• The State Assisted Suicide Program (aka NHS), courtesy of Gordon Brown’s Labour Party