Labour's Sugar Daddy

This just pinged into TB's inbox:

Conservative MP Douglas Carswell said: “It turns out that Sir Alan is quite a Sugar Daddy. Now we can see why Gordon Brown told him ‘you’re hired’.”

Made him chuckle anyway.

That's Quite an Achiev_ment

Now TB is prone to a typo or two but frankly he isn't asking to form a government and he had to lay off his subs. Of all the manifesto pages they would check for spelling mistakes the most, surely the

education section

is pretty high up the list:

Labour have form in this area. Once again... 3/10 see me.

Quote of the Day

TB is busy editing down footage from the manifesto launch. In the meantime digital guru Rory Cellan Jones hit the nail on the head

this morning

:

"But I think the Conservatives will have learned something from Labour's launch. Don't expect to see Dizzy Thinks, Tory Bear or even Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome climbing onto the platform to big up David Cameron before he unveils his manifesto."

Quote of the Day

"The glamorous activist who introduced Labour's manifesto has previously called for the violent death of Margaret Thatcher and for Gordon Brown to be removed as Prime Minister."

- The Daily Mail

The rest of the article is well worth a

read

. Just remember where you read the Thatcher skateboard story first:

TB has long suspected Bevanie Ellie was a PR disaster waiting to happen. A pretty bad day for Labour and not just because of their comedy manifesto. Did nobody think to do a little research on our Bevanite friend before she was put at the heart of the campaign? Sad truth is most people wanted to get rid of Brown and are now all lying through their teeth that he is the best man for the job.


Oh well, guess there won't be too many tears on May 6th after all...

Ellie's Changed Her Tune

Less than two years ago Ellie Gellard was

calling for Brown to go

. Given her tendency to spin and claim to be reduced to tears at every crap speech he gives, this anger and venom is quite the revelation:

 

"How dare he stand by with personal interest watching our party sink it is not his to lose, it is ours."

Here's my ideal scenario for the coming months. Brown accepts that too much damage has been done and while I feel sorry for someone who has waited so long for a job which he has done averagely and been slaughtered for, I care more for our party and supporters. Alan Johnson takes the reigns.

In short, Brown (although I had high hopes and don't burden you with total responsibility) get your coat, time's up."

So why the sudden change of tune, has someone realised she could carve a little career out as rat staying on the sinking ship? Interesting logic...

Labour's Manifesto Sham

So the audience was bused in, the hacks were heckled and Gordon made the fatal mistake of playing to the room rather than the thousands watching on TV. A dreadful attempt at as showing some unity. The award for most sickening sucking up has to go to Alan Johnson, he was only lacking the apple for teacher. Ellie Gellard's cameo was intriguing. That cut glass accent didn't really fit the image now did it.

Guido has more

on that gem.

And so it has emerged, with all the surprise of a Pope in Catholicism shocker, that Labour's three themes for the election are reforming public services, restoring trust in politics and securing the recovery. All very noble ambitions, but asking Labour to oversee these aims is like asking Dr Shipman to look after... you get the picture.

Reforming public services? Quite apart from the fact that Labour have had thirteen years to do this, what exactly does it mean? Does it mean glossing over the public sector pension time-bomb? Or employing even more NHS managers? Perhaps it means handing out yet more town hall fat-cat salaries that eclipse the earnings of the PM and armed forces chiefs. Who knows?

Restoring trust in politics? Two words: Damian McBride. A few more words: cash for honours, taxi for hire, smears and lies, plots and coups, phantom mortgages, porn films and bath plugs. Next.

Securing the recovery? This they want to achieve by increasing their tax on jobs and corpses. Over one hundred of the UK's biggest employers (dismissed by Labour with a sneer as "Tories") have come out and said that such a move would be disastrous. But, with all the stubbornness of a General on the Somme sending yet more troops in the machine gun fire, Labour are pressing ahead. Higher taxes and fewer jobs will not secure the recovery, any more than a leaking bucket will secure its contents.

Labour: Three pledges, three unbelievable examples of hypocrisy, failure and deceit.

/insert headline here

Spare a moment for Brighton Labour Party who have seen their thousands of leaflets accidentally mailed out across the country. Things aren't going so well for the West Lothian reds either. Labour's attempts to spin that they are the party that "gets" social media are well and truly dead in the water:

Another day another fail.

TB on BBC News Discussing Tweet-gate IV

Across the spectrum today candidates will be deleting old tweets. TB has been saying for months that the internet would scalp a candidate however he didn't expect it to happen so soon, or to a friend.



The computer hard-drive filled up and stopped recording last 30 secs, an unshaven TB added Stuart was one of the more reasonable and rational Labour hacks he knew and it was shame he had to go this way.

Either way will this be the last scalp of the campaign? Doubt it...

The Truth About Stacy Bott

If there was ever three words to send a shiver down the spine of a Conservative Future member, they would be Anastasia Beaumont-Bott. Many an activist thought they had seen the last of Anastasia Stacy, (she changed her name when she moved from Scotland,) when she resigned from the executive in October 2008. She cited at the time that she wished to spend more time with the LGBTory project she was used by CCHQ to front.

However Stacy was quick to leave the Tories all together. In a blazing row in a well know CF watering hole she was overheard vowing to have a revenge on the organisation. And it seems today she has attempted to do that with a

rant to the Indy

. She encourages gay people to vote Labour and said she left the Conservatives because of homophobia. But that's not quite why is it Stacy?

The real reasons she left are ten fold. TB isn't going to name names and jeopodise some serious players in the Party, but lets just say Stacy led a complex private life and fought dirty when she didn't get her own way. As far as TB is aware there still a gagging order on what happened in Scotland, and despite living there for four years, TB encountered almost, almost, 100% sealed lips whenever her name was mentioned. So we'll leave that. The stories of orgies and her relationship with a married CCHQ official that got way out of hand, are more well known though. Especially after ABB turned on those she once trusted. 

She smeared her apparent friends who she thought were in her way up the greasy poll. Perhaps the most disgusting example was her attempts to spread rumours that a fellow CF activist was being abused by a family member. Another had been sectioned, another a swinger, another was sleeping with a certain Peer, despite her own little secrets there, all false. As were the accusations of drug dealing at a CF event, again proven to be completely false despite her fake tipoff to CCHQ. Labour are welcome to her, she will poison any organisation she goes near. Her lies were exposed and very quickly she ran out of friends and decided to jump ship before moves were made to have her expelled from the Party.

So for whatever reason this attention seeking, toxic, ruthless careerist decided to turn on the Tories it certainly wasn't because of homophobia she encountered. Just take a look at her internal resignation email she sent rather than the official version that was published. Amongst attempting to spin her way out of the lies she was exposed for telling was this corker:

"LGBTory is going from strength to strength. We have about 45k for next year already - we have personal letters of endorsements from David Cameron, pledges of support from Ed Vaizey, backing from the shadow cabinet as well as numerous other LGBT celebrities such as Paul O'Grady - next year is going to be huge and I want to be there every step of the way as Founder. I want to be the person who stands up and shows this party isn't homophobic."

May that be the end of it.

Guy News: Britain's Election HQ

LBC Tonight 8pm

TB will be chewing the election fat on LBC radio tonight at 8.

Sorry about lack of blogging today.

Dave Rallies the Troops

Tiny Caption Contest

You know what to do...

The Village Fete

Incredible scenes on College Green:

The forts are erected!

On the Wagon

Sky's Joey Jones is travelling on the Cameron bus and he's armed with a Blackberry camera. It looks like the "Joey Casts" are going to become a regular...



Good idea, though could do with the gossip.

Let's Go

Meanwhile in Westminster:



"This used to be a green and pleasant land."

Sky News 10pm

TB will be on da telly tonight just after 10pm, talking about some election. Not sure who he's on with but it will be someone from Labour. Got to dash back to London and remember to shave off sideburns. On reflection, they look ridiculous. 

Tatchell's Dangerous Mud-Slinging

As ever mouthy Peter Tatchell is quick to bash the Tories in the Guardian's

Comment is Free

today. He once again puppets the line about how damaging the Tories allies are in Europe. As is so often the case with the left though, they fail to check their own house is in order before going on the attack. Perhaps Peter should speak out against Leopolds Ozoliņš, an MP for the Latvian Green Party - united under the

European Green Party

along with Tatchell.

Leopolds Ozoliņš is

on the record

using all of the following quotes when talking about homosexuality:

• ‘perverse cult’
• ‘recta operators’
• ‘ass-fuckers’
• ‘homosexuality is a very nasty mental disorder’
• ‘homosexuality promotes peadophilia and spread of HIV and hepatitis C’
• ‘homosexuality is perverse, degenerating and human health mutilating lifestyle’

Anything to say about that Peter?

As TB has said before, both the Greens and Labour need to think twice before they attack the Tories for their European allies.

Of course there is an easy solution to all this...

Buckingham Palace, Tuesday 15:30

According to

Political Scrapbook

Gordon has a date with Liz tomorrow afternoon at 15:30. If this is true then shockingly it would be the first time James Macintyre, the New Statesman's "Mr Insider" has ever got 

a story correct

.

TB hopes this gives the BBC and Sky time to finish building their little forts on College Green. No doubt there will be helicopters too. Gordon will then been hosting a PPC event before going back to Downing Street.

Presumably to start packing.

UPDATE: Gordon meets the Queen anyway at 15.30 on a Tuesday and people are rightly suggesting this is late in the day. Adam Boulton is clearly

wired in

to the Buckingham Palace catering service and says the Queen will be available "after her breakfast". Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Quote of the Day

"Almost half are prominent local councillors – many of them council leaders – and one in six trade union employees or activists. Many more are government special advisers, work for Labour MPs or are ex-MPs seeking to return.

Labour is also drawing heavily from the public sector for its candidates, contrasting sharply with the Conservatives, many of whose standard-bearers worked in business or commerce."

-

The Indy

on Labour's candidates