Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Tories: Enough about immigration! posted by Richard Seymour
Good news comes in threes. First the Tories sink behind in the polls; second Howard gets his ass kicked by a television audience in Oldham for promoting xenophobia (his remarks, if reported accurately, reek of Powell's "rivers of blood"); third, and most gloriously of all, leading Tories are now calling on Howard to back off over immigration:A group of Conservative frontbenchers, including members of the shadow cabinet, have pleaded with Michael Howard to tone down his harsh rhetoric on asylum and immigration.
In the first signs of a Tory wobble - following a series of poor opinion polls - Mr Howard was warned over the weekend that he risked looking like the leader of a single-issue party.
And there is bad news today with a Populus poll in the Times which shows a dramatic leap in Labour's lead from two to nine points. No pollster has previously recorded such a dramatic jump in this election campaign.
It couldn't be sweeter. The Tories, my loves, are curling up, wilting, yellowing and slowly dying before our very eyes. Good. Feel the hate, you fuckers.