Right now...

...this is displaying on poster areas in Manchester:

And this from

Creative Review

made TB chuckle:

Ouch...

A CCHQ insider emails regarding the defection of Beaumont-Bott:

"She was the most ineffective, self-serving, divisive and immature person I ever had to work with. She was only ever interested in whichever spotlight she could get to point in her direction. Today, it seems that's the Labour Party, and they're welcome to her."

Stacy Defects

When Anastasia Beaumont Bott quit the Tories she said:

"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."

When she spoke to the Indy last weekend

she said

:

"I don't like doing this to Mr Cameron. I like him"

Today she said in a Labour press release:

“As a now ex-conservative politician, needless to say, I wasn’t convinced. And with your recent manifesto launch, I am still not convinced. Mr Cameron, you have not only lost my vote. You have lost my respect."

Leant on much?

And sorry, since when was she ever a "politician"? She was a volunteer activist at best. She swore revenge on the Tories and this is her best effort. She was never exactly camera shy...

Labour's utterly lame attempt to flare this up shows just how low they are willing to sink to try stop the Tory narrative from taking hold. It's too late though, this botched attempt reeks of desperation.

Anything for 15 mins of fame eh?

Students Population Goes Blue

As the NUS convene for their yearly lash-up, let TB just remind the collective Labour pole greasers and green eco-facists how the lay of land

really is

:

The Conservatives are winning the student vote on the UK's university campuses, a poll suggests.

Three in 10 (30%) are planning to vote Tory in the upcoming election, compared with just over one in five (21%) who are backing Labour.

The Liberal Democrats are just behind, with 19% of students planning to give them their vote.

Ouch, poor old

Wes

...

Guy News: Britain's Election HQ

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

And So It Begins...

Britain’s most highly decorated serving soldier last night personally attacked Gordon Brown for ‘disrespecting’ the Armed Forces.

Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry also revealed that he refused to shake the Prime Minister’s hand at a Remembrance Day event last year.

Mr Brown has now written a personal letter of apology to Lance Corporal Beharry, who in 2005 was awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in Iraq.

Lance Corporal Beharry said that Mr Brown had fidgeted throughout the two-minute silence held at the Cenotaph in November. “We were representing the Army in front of him and he didn’t seem to care less,”

Let's hope Brown spelt his name write in the apology

letter

.

Chris Gayling

This is not a matter of Grayling standing up for what he believes in, if it was he wouldn't have voted for the legislation he was speaking out against. Right? If this was a "matter of principle" Grayling would have resigned on a "matter of principle" when he refused to vote with his Party. Oh wait. Instead he has shown himself to be a hypocritical careerist toad, biting the bullet and swallowing his beliefs for a sniff of power. It's a mess and safe to say, even if he clings on for the next five weeks, he won't be won't be taking up an office anywhere near Horseferry Road.

Over promoted, gaffe prone and completely lacking in any any savvy-ness, Grayling has been a walking shit-magnet ever since he was given the Shadow Home Office brief. He was a great attack dog but that doesn't mean he is suitable for high office. TB doesn't believe he is homophobic, but he should have been more shrewd. For better or worse, he may well have been standing up for Christian rights, but he must have realised this close to an election that people would be on the look out for any excuse to piss on the Tory bonfire. An idiot rather than bigot. Grayling is clearly not A-team material and has ruined an otherwise perfect eve-of-the-election-weekend. Well done.

But this is not the first time Grayling has caused a sharp intake of breath for TB. He sums up everything wrong with the authoritarian, "hang em and flog em" tory-ism. Want to see this hard streak? Just look at his cosying up to the likes of Alan Johnson whenever the D word is mentioned.

So we have established that Grayling is a tit. But that doesn't give an excuse for the scummy fringe of the left to bring out their classic attacks on gay Tories. The LGBT Labour movement should take a long reflective moment before they carry on with how they have begun today. Take one of their most vile, aggressive and disgustingly bigoted members Kev Peel for example.

Young Kevin has used today to spread some of his more

ignorant and inflammatory ideas

. He has suggested that all gay tories are "self loathing, repressed and rather homophobic". Sorry but WTF?

Since when does who someone beds determine their entire political outlook? Why should someone's sexuality, unless standing purely on these particular issues, determine how they vote? What goes on in the bedroom is nothing to do with the state, a political party or even a hotel owner. Peel should apologise for the disgusting slurs. His amateur and immature arguments should be immediately disowned by LGBT Labour and the Party as a whole. If they are not they are showing a fascinating insight into the homophobic mindset of their party.

Yes you read that right, to suggest that someone should be enslaved by their sexuality and make sure it determines every single decision they make is an homophobic outlook. It shows they feel that somehow a gay person is unequal from someone who doesn't have to make every decision based on their sexuality. Grow up Kev. 


UPDATE: A gay Tory gets in touch to say of Kev: "It's disgustig, similar to what Ben Bradshaw comes out with. I like how he's now trying to portray himself as a 'minor labour person' and his views are just his own. So were Graylings but he's still insulting thousands of gay people who vote Tory."

Labour's Casual Regard for Privacy

While in government Labour have lost thousands of gigabytes of data be it secret military inteligence or the personal details of thousands of citizans. It will come as no surprise that at party level they have an almost piss-taking attitude toward the Data Protection Act. Sites like

Ed's Pledge

and

Back the Ban

are nothing more than email address harvesting exercise.

Greg Hands is clearly enjoying his new role as the Tories attack dog. He seems to have been charged with going after Blair and he's doing rather well at it. In a

long piece on ConHome

he unravels how by signing up to receive email updates from Downing Street in 2007, his data was transferred through Tony Blair's murky business and charity dealings and finally ended up in the hands of the Labour Party. This being a breach of not only Data Protection Laws but also highlights some intriguing questions about Blair's charities and their connections to his business interests and the Labour Party.

Read Hand's excellent investigation

here

.

Dust to Dust

Labour aren't having a good weekend. On the eve of the election being called the momentum and the lead is back with the Tories. Much of this is down to George Osborne who once again playing a great hand on a fiscal announcement. Once it was the IHT cut and now it's the pledge to make seven out ten working people better off by removing Brown and Darling's national insurance increase.

And of course Labour's bad weekend can be blamed on their poster disaster. Expect the Milibands to come under much fire next week for the cock up. Already the blame game is starting. TB put a call into one of his best Labour sources, a senior party figure who had seen an advanced copy of the poster, to poke fun. He wasn't expecting quite such rage though:

"We're getting the worst reactions at the doorstep: indifference and inattention. Even people who watched the show last night didn't get the reference, and the vast majority of the country didn't watch the show. HQ just don't get it."

Another Labour hack said "I can't believe what a f*** up this weekend has been."

Every newspaper and even the BBC are slamming the poster and the polls tonight are expected to show an increased Tory lead. You want to get yourselves a decent ad agency chaps.

Don't Miss

TB is enjoying a few days off catching up on lots of things before the scrum kicks off on Tuesday. It seems the campaigns are still going strong though over the weekend. If you are switching off for the a couple of days make sure you note these two must reads/watches. Firstly David Cameron's

pitch for PM

in The Telegraph and how his political journey makes him the man for the top job:

"It was nine years ago, but every second is etched on my memory. I couldn’t stop fidgeting as I chewed gum, paced the draughty hall and smoked (I still hadn’t given up by then). The hours dragged by, the torture seeming to get only more intense. Every ballot box that was emptied appeared to have crosses for my opponents, not for me. My stomach was in knots, a gnawing dread that my second attempt to win a seat in Parliament would end in failure again."

Secondly catch up with BBC Parliament's half hour "

Hard Talk

" with Heather Brooke:

She get's quite a grilling and handles her own well in yet another, but ultimately fascinating, insight into her campaign against the establishment. 

Labour's Taliban Moment

For all the smug stirring that Labour did during a wee bit of Tory PPC trouble in Norfolk and Westminster North, they don't half know how to have a bun-fight themselves. Tristram Hunt's selection in Stoke-On-Trent has gone down like a cup of cold sick. The Labour spin operation and more feverent loyal grassrooters have gone into overdrive dismissing any criticism of the selction process as "pathetic" or "beserk". Others are worried though and a clear split in the Party nationally is emerging.

The main lightening rod for the "forces of hell" appears to be Gary Elsby, who believed that he was the favourite to take the seat and is having one mighty tantrum now he has been pushed aside by Mandy's little friend. He is now running as an independent labour candidate and threatening to take the CLP with him. No fewer than three of TB's more metropolitan Labour chums have pointed out 

this piece

by Ed Howker this morning. It seems Mr Elsby has a track record as a loose cannon and it's perhaps for the best that someone with his thought process is kept as far away from Westminster as possible. Here is a selection of comments Elsby has left on blogs:

Iain Dale's Diary: June 23, 2006 2:13 PM Gary Elsby said...

"MI5 undermined Wilson.
MI5 led the miners.
MI5 infiltrated the EC of scargill
MI6 set up the Falklands war
Why do you consider it patriotic for the state(?) to usurp the people?
Why do you support a party that instigated crimes against society of
which we cut off a King's head?
The Conservative party are aparty of traitors. Accept it..."

Iain Dale's Diary June 25, 2006 3:56 PM , Gary Elsby said...

"My point is really quite simple and appears lost to you die hards. The Tories funded Hitlers rising Nazi party and are mostly responsible for what happened next. Your lot tried to stop it by collaborating. Hess, Speer and hundreds of Nazi's colluded with the Tories to accept a Nazi Britain. You have MI5 and MI6 to give you a hand and Labour have no-one. The Falkland islands was a definite Tory plot defining Britain against allcomers. The Tories deliberately weakened our protection in full knowledge of mpending invasion. I'm thinking of writing a book...'The Tories are treacherous,treasonous bastards' Available from all good books shops. Gary"

Dizzy Thinks: 20 Feb 2008 22:44:00 Gary Elsby labour said...

"The only good Tory is a dead Tory. gary"

Dizzy Thinks: 21 Feb 2008 10:43:00

"CORRECTION:
The only good Tory is a dead Tory. I'm sorry, this is a tad wrong. The only Tory is a dead Tory that I am present at the burial. You know what lying bastards Tories are! They say they are dead, but they lie! Gary"

Ministry of Truth: March 20th, 2008 Gary Elsby stoke-on-trent said...

"Tories are lying, cheating bastards. I already knew this. Gary"

You can see now why Mr Elsby's claim that he was an appropriate candidate for Parliament might have been met with some disdain by the more sensible elements of the Labour Party.

Quote of the Day

Labour thinks the 1980s were unpopular. The truth is, nothing in the 1980s was more unpopular than the Labour Party itself.

-

Greg Hands