CF blog stat porn...
TB often wondered if anyone actually reads the Conservative Future Executive
blog
...
Friday, 7 November 2008
Update: The perfect dog for Obama
Seems the perfect on message dog is out there for Barack Obama:
Brian Obama has a certain ring to it too...
DC on/in Scotland
Dave said to ITN today that this was his tenth visit since becoming leader to Scotland and that he is strong fighter for the Union wherever candidates need him etc.
He says it's always hard work for Conservatives in Scotland and he is committed, but how committed is he? While it was good news that we are moving into the third party position in Scotland there is still a hell of a lot more to be done. Scotland represents one tenth of the United Kingdom in terms of population and thus DC should spend one tenth of his time here. Or at the very least a couple of days every month. It's going to be a very sticky situation if the Tories are elected to Westminster with very little representation north of the border.
It's not too late to sort this out...
A dog is for life, not just for soundbites...
press conference
...TB feels it's time to hold a proper competition... real prizes and actual winners this time.
If you would like to have a post-inauguration dinner with Tory Bear then you just have to tell him A) what will Barack and co name their doggy or if no-one gets it right B) what sort of dog will they get...
Answers to editor@torybear.com by the time the First Dog is unveiled to the nation...
New Glenrothes MP goes off message...
Ah to be a fly in the wall in Alex Salmond's office today...
how it really is
:“It’s not a referendum on Gordon Brown at all. What we’ve done is put forward key polices in this area. It’s about the policies that have been presented to the people.”
He described his campaign as a “by-election fought on local issues, but there were obviously macro issues.”
Asked whether Prime Minister had called to congratulate him he said, “He’s tried to phone me three times this morning, but I’ve been elsewhere.”
Good lad.
Exeter election results in...
After another close fought campus battle TB can reveal those who emerged victorious to form the new branch committee for
Exeter University Conservative Future
:
Chairman: Ben Corbridge
Deputy Chairman: Andrew Glover
General Secretary: Tarasyn Whitehead-Patey
Treasurer: Dan Griffin
Press Officer: Timothy Jenkins
Campaigns Officer: William Ashbee
Social Secretary: Sophie Kelk
Freshers' Rep: Charlotte Markey
If you were wondering...
+++STOP PRESS+++
It seems as if
PoliticsHome
have actually predicted an election result correctly!
Stephan Shakespeare, Tim Montgomerie and staff celebrate tonight at 18 Doughty Street
Well almost.. The poll of the 100 insider British political experts said it would be a squeak of a victory for Gordon Brown but it seems Labour have sailed home with a 6000 majority.
An improvement any how... almost there guys.
Labour win something...
Labour have managed to hold a seat that used to be held by Communist Party with a 6000 majority.
Apparently this is a "stunning victory". Errrrm.
Tories beat Lib Dems into fourth with 1381 to 947. We also moved into third in tonight's Edinburgh council by-election. BBC only gave Maurice twenty seconds of airtime.. had time to thank God though and talk about getting married. He even managed to get a cheer for dissing Alex Salmond. Nice one.
TB is loving this.. the Nats look ridiculous having already declared victory here a few weeks back and Labour are ecstatic about defending a majority of 10k. Well done guys... a real "victory".
Incidentally there is a very hot blonde Labour press officer loitering behind the cameras... any one know who she is?
+++SNP defeated+++
TB's mate at the count is already on the booze - the nats have taken a kicking. Lest we forget this is a Labout seat and it seems they are about to have their majority slashed by at least half. This is neither a victory for Labour or the SNP - they both have egg on their faces.
Yes TB called this one wrong but oh well. Seems the Tories are coming in third... with the deposit fingers crossed.
Salmond is going to look like a tit tomorrow morning.. and to think he even had banners saying "yes we can" at a rally yesterday. Gordo is going to be grinning all day. Ugh.
Cringeworthy!
Thursday, 6 November 2008
Just wondering...
As TB gears up for the Glenrothes result he is watching Question Time.
Already 20 minutes in someone has called Nigel Farage a racist for absolutely no reason and David Dimbleby has confused a man and a woman. DD has to go soon- after his poor performance over election night the other day he surly can't be allowed to do the British elections ever again.
Why does anyone care what this washed up ageing hipster has to say. Why should we pay tax to listen to this idiot spouting his views that have been warped by years on drugs.
It used to be fun to watch Question Time to shout at the telly...
These days it's just unwatchable...
UPDATE 23.30: David Dimbleby just asked Germaine Greer what she thought. Germaine Greer is not on the panel.
Vote McCain or the cow gets it...
slaughtering of the victory cow
has taken place in Obama's grandmother's Kenyan village of Kogelo.Nervous bovine throughout Kenya were worried which one of their kin would be slaughtered, but it seems "Daisy" was the unlucky McCain supporter offered as a celebration gift for "The One's" success...
TB is now turning his animal rights attention to Alaska's moose population. Sarah Palin will have a lot of spare time on her hands now and no doubt will pick up her gun...
Just as long as she leaves the bears alone...
So much for an end to partisan politics.
Confirmation of the rumours is emerging - the viciously partisan Democrat animal Rahm Emmanual has been appointed as White House Chief of Staff.
This is Obama putting a bit of stick about. TB wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of a bollocking from this man...
So this is the "change we can believe in" is it?
People 'can't wait for ID cards'
BBC website:
Jacqui Smith says public demand means people will be able to pre-register for an ID card within the next few months.
The cards will be available for all from 2012 but she said: "I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they don't want to wait that long."
TB doesn't believe her.Freedom of Infomation letter anyone?
Noticed
Shane
has just got this story too.Glenrothes
TB has eyes and ears everywhere... none more so than on the streets of Glenrothes tonight. Apparently the Labour camp have all but given up today, despite the fact that interest rates were slashed in another cheap by-election trick by Gordo. TB's eyes say that there is no sign of the 350 activits
Labour claimed
to have on the streets today. The SNP and Tories were out in force.
The SNP have been the dominent ones on the door steps - they've had activists all over the seat all week. The Lib Dems are making more of an effort than in Glasgow East and the Tories have thrown a fair bit of weight behind Maurice Golden. TB's mole will report directly from the count tonight.
TB's predictions: SNP victory by 1 to 2k - Tories in third. Hopefully.
Let the games begin...
Congratulations to the NO2ID sympathiser who swiped the Home Secretaries water glass and thus her fingerprints...
Guido has the full story
.
This should be amusing...
The movie script ending...
So it's finally over... for the last 18 months Tory Bear has been watching from afar the events of the most exciting presidential election in his lifetime. Election night was a depressing affair and TB refrained from commenting until the full implications of the results have sunk in, apologies to those who were asking for comment or opinion in the last 24 hours. Now after a plane ride home, a stiff drink and a very long sleep here goes...
The one thing that stopped this being a total annihilation and wipe out for the Republicans was John McCain. He stood firm and fought as hard as he damn well could. If only he had beaten Bush to the nomination in 2000 - the world would no doubt be a very different place with a McCain White House dealing with the post 9/11 climate. Palin mobilised the base which no doubt shored up a solid chunk of the McCain vote, but had it been any other Republican candidate against Obama then the TB feels the margin of victory would have been a lot greater.
McCain was gracious and humble in defeat and handled his crowd perfectly. People have made a big hoohaa out of the fact that the crowd were booing Obama but TB saw this as frustration rather than anything more malicious. These people have slaved away for months on end and given it their all. The hacks who have been flown in from around the world in business class for the champagne and glory part of the election should bear in mind what the people they are so quick to dismiss have been through in the last year. The fact the media had the audacity to attack a few McCain staffers for venting their despair and upset with a boo is sickening in light of the fact the riot police were on standby across the country in case Obama lost.
So where are we now? Despite the fact it seems the Democrats have missed out on their "super majority" in the Senate they do however control every branch of government. Things are going to be very tough for conservatives in America in the next four years and TB fully expects to see Obama's true colours very quickly revealed in a full scale aggressive leftist agenda. There is nothing the Republicans can do to stop it and the world woke up on Wednesday morning truly a different place. Yes it's fantastic that America is finally one small step toward atonement for it's years of sin but at the end of the day this is one gesture and as many poignant clips on the news channels have said today- this is just the beginning of an end to racism in America. Whether any true change will come around remains to be seen.
The world has changed for a very different reason though; America and it's standing in the world is at a crossroads. It's economy is in tatters, it's army is overstretched and losing on two fronts, and it resources are waning. The end of America as a super power is emerging and the election of a socialist leader is arguably a dying gasp of a dying superpower. With this sharp shift to the left we will see an amateur tackling the middle east, things could get very messy indeed. Obama has promised to pull the troops out of Iraq and soon, this is going to cause the entire region to descend into chaos and America's name will once again be mud. With America declining on the world stage and embracing leftist ideals of sitting down to talk with murderers and terrorist dictators, as Obama has promised to do, new countries will emerge to fill the power gap. China and Russia are in the ascendancy and soon will be truly the new superpowers as America declines back into its shell.
That is why the election of John McCain was so vital and that is why TB is so worried for the next eight years. TB has always been a defender of America and it's people but he is extremely angry at the moment. When people say to him that Americans are dumb or idiots etc etc he stands up for them but right now TB barely has the energy. Someone came along that was shiny and glossy, trendy and new and like the Pied Piper has led them up the mountain to their own destruction. People will study the campaign for years to come as a textbook way to manipulate an entire country. There is no denying his fantastic oratory and his campaign skills but to be fair 800 million dollars goes a bloody long way. Especially when your opponent is capped at $85 million.
So America has reached the end of an era. Small c conservatism has taken one hell of a hit in the last 72 hours and while it will be incredible to see a black family enter the White House on 20th January the price at which that image comes and the socialist baggage that comes with it, leaves a very bitter aftertaste in the mouth... even if there is a little cute fluffy puppy too.
I'm here from the government...
So it seems the walkers had a good day... tailed by a cctv car!
Tory Bear imagines the conversation with the community support officers and police back up went a little something like this...
Evey: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey: Oh. Right.
V:
But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
Evey: Are you like a crazy person?
V: I am quite sure they will say so.
Unto the world a child is born...
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
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