While the Labour Party desperately tries to limit the damage and move talk on to anything apart from yesterday’s disaster without much success, the Telegraph’s Benedict Brogan has a revealing insight into the state of the Conservatives Campaign
He writes "Months ago, the likes of Steve Hilton and George Osborne were predicting – and praying – that it would all come down to the campaign, and the likelihood that Mr Brown would somehow crack under pressure. They wanted to focus voters' minds on the hard truths about Mr Brown – his temper, his indecisiveness, his policy failings.
Until Mrs Duffy popped up, they were having to confront some hard truths of their own, not least that Mr Cameron's decision to agree to the televised debates that gave Mr Clegg equal billing, against the advice of many around him, was probably the single biggest strategic mistake of his leadership."
In fact, the Tories, champions of openness in politics, are concealing plenty of inconvenient truths of their own, from the hidden elements of their deficit reduction programme to Mr Cameron's own capacity for temper and rudeness. The truth about Gordon Brown is their weapon; the truth about themselves – most of it good, but difficult to sell – is best avoided.
I guess there is some truth in the claims that the Conservatives are making up their Election strategy as they go along – for all our sakes let’s hope they don’t do the same when they are in Government.Any source
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