The perils of the long campaign…
March 7, 2010
The General Election road show, particularly for those involved as a campaigner or candidate, began in earnest in January 2010. Received wisdom is that the election date will be Thursday May 6th 2010. That’s 18 weeks of campaigning!
18 weeks means anything and everything can happen. 18 weeks means every comment is scrutinised, reported and discarded. 18 weeks means the polls will narrow widen and often baffle.
Some people will vote tribally, some people will vote based on their own local circumstances and some people will vote based on how much moisturiser David Cameron applies during the leader’s debate.
With at least another 8 weeks to go some Conservatives have already given up www.tinyurl.com/toryshambles
As a Liberal Democrat looking to unseat a Conservative MP I’d be delighted if the Conservatives continued to have a ‘disaster of a campaign.’ The most telling comment though by one of their ‘leading lobbyists’ Peter Bingle is that David Cameron should be leading the Conservatives to ‘an inevitable election victory.’
What rubbish. If election victories were inevitable then nobody would bother voting.
You don’t win elections with money, marketing and moisturiser. There are 8 weeks to go and all is still to play for.
