07 September 2007

Cameron's Best Week

The doom mongers in the media were starting to bay for blood a few weeks ago. This week David Cameron has managed to totally turn that around.

The bad news were fairly minor issues - John Bercow and Patrick Mercer decided to work for Gordon Brown; Patrick Mercer was discredited for his comments about racism in the Armed Forces and the media have been hinting that John Bercow has been in discussion about crossing the floor anyhow, so no-one got too excited. Today a Tory donor has decided to work for Gordon Brown. I don't think there will be too much concern over this either. That donor is an environmentalist and was offered an environmental advisory role with Gordon Brown.

The stuff in Cameron's favour are; the news that the gap in the polls have closed; a very positive reaction to his "National Service" ideas; a respectful reaction to his criticism of Michael Ancram and other supposed grandees; reinforcement of his demands for a referendum on the European Treaty. On top of this there was Gordon Brown's dull, dour, boring, dispassionate Press conference and a negative response to "Citizen's Juries", Brown's biggest piece of spin yet.

For the first time since Brown became PM, Cameron seems to be on the up. I suspect the Conservatives will take the lead in the polls again very soon. It probably won't be a big enough lead (yet), but it is a good sign.

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