Well said, that man
eclectech - Campaign Against Childish Labour: What does it say about your party if you're not able to drum up 30 seconds of content explaining why people should vote for you?
And, on a different issue serving much the same purpose...
Independent - Hodge blamed for increase in far-right's support: Ann Cryer, whose seat in Keighley, West Yorkshire, has been one of the BNP's main strongholds, attacked Mrs Hodge's comments as "very misguided". She feared they would be a morale booster for the BNP as the Labour Party appeared to have halted the rise of the BNP in Keighley... A YouGov poll in yesterday's Daily Telegraph showed 7 per cent support for the BNP, with 24 per cent saying they had considered voting for them in the past or were considering it now. But analysts believe some of this may be a direct result of the publicity the BNP has received from Mrs Hodge and others who attack it. Anthony King, professor of government at the University of Essex, said: "Margaret Hodge and others who have warned of the BNP threat have probably done it a favour by reminding voters of its existence."
Hmmm... cynically exploiting a threat for political gain and making that threat worse in the process... where have we seen this kind of thing before?
The Times - Bush and Blair have brilliantly done Bin Laden's work for him: There is now a voluminous literature on the politics of fear and its distorting appeal for democratic leaders (this month alone, David Runciman's admirable The Politics of Good Intentions and Peter Oborne's The Use and Abuse of Terror). The 9/11 "changes everything" mantra began as an explanation of a national trauma and a plea for sympathy. It was hijacked to validate the latent authoritarianism of democratic leaders.
And, on a different issue serving much the same purpose...
Independent - Hodge blamed for increase in far-right's support: Ann Cryer, whose seat in Keighley, West Yorkshire, has been one of the BNP's main strongholds, attacked Mrs Hodge's comments as "very misguided". She feared they would be a morale booster for the BNP as the Labour Party appeared to have halted the rise of the BNP in Keighley... A YouGov poll in yesterday's Daily Telegraph showed 7 per cent support for the BNP, with 24 per cent saying they had considered voting for them in the past or were considering it now. But analysts believe some of this may be a direct result of the publicity the BNP has received from Mrs Hodge and others who attack it. Anthony King, professor of government at the University of Essex, said: "Margaret Hodge and others who have warned of the BNP threat have probably done it a favour by reminding voters of its existence."
Hmmm... cynically exploiting a threat for political gain and making that threat worse in the process... where have we seen this kind of thing before?
The Times - Bush and Blair have brilliantly done Bin Laden's work for him: There is now a voluminous literature on the politics of fear and its distorting appeal for democratic leaders (this month alone, David Runciman's admirable The Politics of Good Intentions and Peter Oborne's The Use and Abuse of Terror). The 9/11 "changes everything" mantra began as an explanation of a national trauma and a plea for sympathy. It was hijacked to validate the latent authoritarianism of democratic leaders.
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