I was canvassing with Ben Gummer and quite a large group of us on the Maidenhall Estate, and I was shocked not at the hostility to the cuts – which is still not there, although the fear certainly is – but at an anger that people still have with Labour for lying to them about the finances. When you’re being compared to Greece you’re in trouble (actually that wasn’t this week, but it’s been heard many times before).
As some of my Labour readers have still not yet decided how to vote I will just point to that anger and also point to the best way to get yourself out of a hole is to stop that Ed Balls with his bloody big excavator. Which is why it can’t be David Miliband. He will allow Ed Balls in as the shadow chancellor and it will simply be telling the British public that they need to borrow more to spend on sundry Labour donors. We Tories are going to be merciless if you do that.
Ben Gummer said that my previous endorsement of the younger and less odd looking brother was “the worst piece you’ve ever written”, which is saying something as that includes my pieces on Europe. I would like to point out that David M got in trouble around about the time of Ben’s endorsement, and yet Ed started to pull away when I endorsed him. A tribute to the influence that Bridge Ward News yields that even surprised me.
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