Rumours are circulating that Gordo will announce an election next Tuesday. Iain Dale writes:
I have been hearing things about strange activities in Whitehall, with meetings being cancelled, diaries being cleared and newspaper adverts being booked.
Civil servants in the Department of Health are getting very edgy, I'm told. Tuesday is apparently full of big health events but these are now in doubt as No. 10 have apparently cleared their diary. Naturally the speculation inside the Department is that this is because Brown will be calling a General Election. No date is attached to the rumours but a short campaign gives us a date in early October, with October 4 and 11 the most likely. Remember that the IGC is on October 18th, where the European ConTreatyTution will be agreed. If Brown is tempted by those dates it clearly means that the three party conferences would be cancelled.
Of course, it could be a media spin rumour, but I'd say the PM would have a lot to gain from denying Tories the conference season coverage, as well as forcing his own party to close ranks on the matter of the EU treaty.
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I think Gordie would be a fool not to go for it. How about you, Ordo? I haven't been reading your blog for long so don't know if you are an election candidate but it seems to me you would be an excellent one.
How about you, Ordo? I haven't been reading your blog for long so don't know if you are an election candidate but it seems to me you would be an excellent one.
Thanks, but no thanks ;-)
I am sure he will go for an election at the earliest possible time. The economy is beginning to creak.....not only here but in the US. The house price crash contagion is spreading. Chinese workers are getting payed a little more each year pushing up inflation. That's why Gordo will fight tooth and nail to stop workers over here get much pay increases. He knows that good times are over and that they weren't really down to him in the first place. He has to go for it PDQ I believe.
"He'd have to be a fool not to go for it."
I think he is a fool, so that's part 1 out. And as I blogged yesterday (for different but still IMO valid reasons) I don't think he will go for it.
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