Hain: At it again
I know it’s lazy blogging, but you have to admit this is pretty lazy campaigning as well:
EDP24 - Hain: Norwich seats crucial for Labour
Welsh Secretary Peter Hain said Norwich North and Norwich South were crucial and conceded that his party’s big fear was complacency.
“If Labour supporters flirt with the Liberal Democrats, they will get a Tory government by the back door.
“They will give Michael Howard the tradesman’s key to Number 10 and that will be back to the bad old days under the Tories of high mortgages, more unemployment and under-development of public services.”
The Back Door Count currently stands at: 4.
Posted on April 12th, 2005 at 9:17 am
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“They will give Michael Howard the tradesman’s key to Number 10″
Am I the only one to detect an allusion to buggery in that phrase of Hain’s? Accident?
The only one buggered is Hain. Morality-wise.
I just think it’s some tortuous metaphor lolloping out of Hain’s runaway trap the second it occurred to him suggesting that Howard’s not fit to walk through the front door and must use the rear entry.
Oh Christ, I’m at it now.
I can see unemployment (efficiency savings=sacked civil servants), I can see under-development of public services (maintaining current spend), but I don’t get how Howard would lead to higher mortgages.
Is he suggesting they would:
a) Change Bank of England inflation targets
b) Set interest rates directly again - and set them high for a currently incomprehensible reason
c) Cause another massive surge upwards in house prices
d) Go crazy with government borrowing, driving up gilts and consequently interest rates
e) Something even more bizarre
None of these seem particularly associated with Tory policies. Perhaps it’s like the 35 billion cuts - ie relative to Labour, who are secretly planning to reduce FTB mortgages by instigating a house price crash.
Answers on a postcard
Just for the pedants, I’m pretty sure that Number 10 Downing Street does not have a back door.
-dsquared