... people with photoshop skills need to create lots of pictures of David Cameron spliced with Margaret Thatcher, the tagline of which is:

"THE REAL TWO-FACE"

Get to it! 

David Cameron’s lecture to the fat and poor in Glasgow yesterday to “take responsibility” was the classic statement of conservatism. If the people are poor, it’s their own fault. Or as Dave puts it, “social problems are often the consequence of the choices that people make”. The Glasgow citizens aren’t merely people suffering unemployment, ill health and poor housing. They have “twisted values” that have “eaten away at our social fabric". And as it’s the 21st century we have an update to this Victorian morality – they’re not just poor but they’re fat. So we can attack them for that too.

Mark Twain once remarked that the wonderful thing about science was the remarkable return of conjecture from a small investment of fact. The same goes for this pair of meaningless by-elections with pundits great and small allowing their analysis to run rings around the limited facts to hand. Actually it's simple. Our vote stayed at home.

The Tory PPC for North Ayrshire and Arran has been criticised for calling former Rhodesian PM a hero

Hopi Sen is in my view one of the top Labour bloggers out there and a proper big brain.  Today he effortlessly unpicks David Cameron's spending commitments.

http://hopisen.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/laughter-lines/   

I don't know what Hopi's doing these days, but I bet he's wasted.

The soft and cuddly tories have a lust for blood and killing,we have to stop tearing ourselves apart and turn our guns on Dave the snake oil salesman.

Why are there so many tories commenting on everything here?

Gordon Brown has ruled out the possibility of his taking part in a US style televised debate with David Cameron and Nick Clegg in the run up to the next General Election.

Labour party is calling for an apology from Cameron on remarks he has made today in a speech, where he said that Government support for trips to Auschwitz was a 'gimmick', one of many used by Brown.


"Trips to Auschwitz" was listed as one of 26 'gimmicks' in a briefing note from the Tory party accompanying Mr Cameron's speech in Bolton.

The Telegraph's Andrew Grimson gets it about right when he comments that David Cameron risks appearing lightweight when compared to Gordon Brown.

I particularly liked the following comment on Grimson's Telegraph blog: 'Both Osborne and Cameron come across as privileged rustafarians, never having held down a proper job in their lives, and more importantly, neither have been responsble for running a business so as to pay their staff in their pampered lives. This is the Tories' biggest weakness. Hearing speeches from those two is like having a lecture on economics given by Paris Hilton.'

David Davies' outburst today against Gordon Brown is a smokescreen to hide the Tories hurried scrabble to get out of the Derek Conway row.

Look at this: last week Cameron announced his FRONT BENCH would have until April to declare if they employed family members - ie: were guilty of the same misappropriation of taxpayers money as Derek Conway. That gave them two months to stop doing it and put their houses in order.

Today he changed his mind and said they would have until JULY to do it. Remember this is front benchers not back benchers, he isn't asking them to declare anything at all.

It looks to me like one of the Tory Front Bench is being protected from having to delcare something embarrassing - let's see if we can find out who it is.

2 leaks in less than a week...

First, the 'Police, Cameron. Action' announcement last week, coming immediately after Cabinet discussion and impending moves on the same... (Nick Robinson refered to this on the Politics Show last week)

Now, David Davis claiming he wrote to the PM on the bugging back in December...

Gordon Brown is well known for his fondness of US politics and for holidaying in the US, but as the Presidential primaries get underway, what would be his relationship with the next occupant of the White House?