Guy News: You Were Always On My Mic

Tweet of the Century

Moments before the story hit the airwaves. Labour's fallen star

said

:

How's that word of mouth thing going today?

The Day Gordon was Destroyed

What a day. The irony is it started well for the Prime Minister. He was finally out there meeting a greeting a real life person rather than a party hack or screened activists. But how soon we saw his true colours and his utter contempt of not only his own party but the whole electorate.

Gordon has finally been forced to beg for forgiveness after a cockup. Before he could blame someone else, be it America or McBride, but not this time. He tried to blame Sue Nye, his long term loyal aide, but frankly there is no one to blame for this huge mess other than himself. His broke campaign is a shambles and he is the Master of Ceremonies sitting on the shore like a wannabe King Cnut.

A total wipeout for Gordon, and no amount of

begging emails

will fix the damage done as this is chewed over across the land. The teatime news, evening shows and tomorrow's papers will be brutal reading for Labour but frankly they deserve it. Gordon has been caught red handed playing the classic left tactic of dismissing anyone you don't agree with as a racist or a sexist or homophobic. See MacShane, McCarthy and Gellard, Hundal etc for this tactic employed daily. No wonder they can't see what he has done wrong.

Though the sound is a bit shakey TB did a Skype interview for

ITV News

. Seems he needs to get one of Dale's headsets:

Sadly his little ad dig at Balls got flipped over as well. But the media whoring doesn't stop there. TB will be on

LBC Radio

at 8pm tonight with Will Straw and Mark Pack - Can't think what we will have to talk about.

Jim Knight's Leaflet Shame

Employment Minister Jim Knight has left residents in his constituency sharpening their pitchforks after he posed smiling his leaflet with a convicted drink driver. Daniel Skelton who was given an

extremely lenient sentence

e is features prominently in Knights literature:

A motorcyclist Pete Bower, who was left seriously injured when he was knocked over by Skelton is fuming.

Gordan Brown?

So looks like it's a straight fight between the Lib Dems and Labour. Poor Gordon, the first time he trends on Twitter it's for hugely damaging reasons. And to add insult to injury it seems that the UKs voting public don't even know how to spell his name:

Who are ya... who are ya...

Crick Nails It

Michael Crick

is spot on re Gordon's comments:

First, of course, they will anger the many millions of voters, many of them Labour, who are also worried about immigration. Many of these people are not racists. They suggest that the PM doesn't understand their concerns, let alone share them.

Second, they reveal the darker side of Gordon Brown, and confirm what many of his critics have long said. He doesn't like criticism, and tried to avoid it. He expects his staff to keep critics well away from him.

Third, they show that Labour's claims since the weekend that Mr Brown was now meeting "real people" are pretty bogus. It's clear from his comments, and criticism of his long-standing aide Sue Nye, that Mr Brown still expected to be presented on the campaign only with loyal Labour voters. We now know the party was hoodwinking us.

It all unravels yet again.

I've Never Voted Conservative...

Boom boom.

Via email.

Bigoted?

Mrs Duffy said:

"You can't say anything about the immigrants because you're saying that you're... all these Eastern Europeans - where are they flocking from"

Doesn't sound very bigoted. More confused. She was asking her leader a question to which he says he couldn't respond. Why not? Instead he smeared her to his staff and the world.

GordonON/GordOFF

Tory Rascal

is quick off the mark:

Are there any Labour attacks left that haven't backfired so spectacularly?

Gordon's Last Gasp Gaffe

And this is the conversation we heard. Imagine all those chats the microphones have missed.

Brand Extension

Loved this picture that was sent in by a reader:

Sadly those limited edition bags are sold out now...

Where Will You Be Next Thursday?

A message from

The Big Election Night Party

:

This election is the closest in living memory

It could go either way...

Where will you watch all the action unfold?


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Not only will there be a party but the BBC and Sky will be there, some of the UKs top bloggers and pundits as well as constant updates on what the betting markets are doing. The iBank will have charging facilities for iPhones and Blackberries. The first drink is even on the house...

Tickets to this all night event are just £25, and food and drink served all night, literally all night. Just off Trafalgar Square so there are great transport connections. Sadly we are only able to invite over 18s only. 

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The Hung Parliament Party

Fake Change

The Lib Dems have faked up photos of three public sector workers in the last week:

It's a joke.

The Wheels to Come Off the Clegg Bus?

Not a smear, but not exactly a game changer either. This

story

is rather telling none the less. In 2003 Nick Clegg MEP smuggled a 17 year old girls out of the country by hiding her in the loo on a coach chartered for a Liberal Democrat funded trip. How is someone with such a flagrant disregard for border laws meant to be taken seriously while asking to be put in charge of the country? Makes you wonder what is going on aboard the

magical mystery tour

.

Might have taken a hit at his chances of becoming Cameron's Home Secretary...

Labour PPC in Second Internet Scandal

As TB reported last week, Labour PPC John Cowan was selected despite being kicked out of the Lib Dems for being a sex pest. Despite being the one to complain to the Lib Dems, Kerry McCarthy MP turned a blind eye when Cowan was embraced with open arms by Labour and selected as a candidate. Well it looks tonight as if his career in the Labour Party is over as his website has disappeared. TB is hearing rumours that he has been sacked. This is also a big embarrassment for

LabourList

given Cowan was one of their regular contributors. His Twitter

account

seems unusually quiet.

The Telegraph, with a little help it must be said, have landed what must surely be the knock out blow on Cowan by revealing his anti Muslim, sexually explicit and offensive online comments under a veil of attempted annoymity on various chat room forums. You can read the whole story

here

.

This story seems far darker and deeper than the Stuart MacLennan Twitter

news

that disrupted Labour's first week of the campaign. The same rules must apply here. Why did he even get past the selection process? The Tories didn't touch him with a barge pole when he tried to come their way. Kerry McCarthy has a lot to answer for here.

Goodbye Cowan, or was it Racingdude009?

A New Poll Method

A busy day on the stump in Perth and North Perthshire. According this extremely sophisticated poll there is still work to be done to make sure it is a Tory gain, but the reaction right across this vast constituency has been extremely positive. It's look good. TB, and his epically over the top t-shirt, even got the chance to meet the SNP's incumbent Pete Wishart who it seems is a reader..."Mr Bear I believe..." 

Seems it was a strange day elsewhere. What exactly was with the Elvis impersonator? Good news that Labour saw sense and have

withdrawn

their offensive poster. Great news that Morely and Outwood has been made an official target seat after Antony Calvert's epic fund-raising drive against Balls.


Polls looking good tonight, back to stuffing envelopes.

Vince's Bad Week

After his disastrous Chancellor's Debate on Wednesday, Vince capped off a dreadful week with this:




Via

Tory Politico

.

Guy News: Inside the Spin Room

"You can't film in here..." Yes we can.

The Morning After the Night Before

TB is sitting in Edinburgh fresh of the sleeper and bleary eyed. Nice to be back and sitting reading the papers with that as the view. The splash is pretty much what could have been hoped for Dave:

How deserved it is remains to be seen when some more sunbstantive polls emerge in the next 48/72 hours. One thing to note is the pollsters aren't seem to know about as much as anyone else in term of what is really going on out there. They are up down and all over the place. A scary thought. Tories seem to be splitting into two camps - deniers and realists. Over night TB got a thinking. If we are set for a hung parliament, the Tories need to start preparing for it now. on their own terms, rather than when it is forced upon them . The Orange Bookers won't be a problem, but the left bonkers sandal wearing grassrooters might be. Clegg's whole message of change will be skewered if he chooses to prop up Brown. If sixty percent of the voters, as it seems at the moment, don't want Gordon there will be no legitmacy in his government. Will it be taken lying down?

The Liberal Democrats want to rip up the rule book in terms of the electoral system, and frankly if Brown is returned despite taking a thumping from the people, TB will be inclined to agree with them.