LONDON (Reuters) - TheLabour party will remain the largest in parliament, but fall short of an overall majority after an election expected on May 6, an opinion poll showed Wednesday. The daily poll in the Sun newspaper indicated the Conservatives would win 36 percent of votes at the election, down three percentage points from Tuesday's poll.
LONDON (Reuters) - TheLabour party will remain the largest in parliament, but fall short of an overall majority after an election expected on May 6, an opinion poll showed Wednesday.
The daily poll in the Sun newspaper indicated the Conservatives would win 36 percent of votes at the election, down three percentage points from Tuesday's poll.
But equally I cannot believe Labour will be the largest party either.
Guardian - Jonthan freedland - The Innocent smoothies of politics are still the party of the rich
It is pointless to bang on about Tories' accents, double (or quadruple) barrels and schooling if these are somehow offered as criticisms in themselves. They are relevant only as evidence of a much more important fact, one that has been assiduously concealed: that for all the window-dressing and air-brushing, the Conservative party in Britain remains what it has always been - the party of the landed and moneyed interest. This is why the revelations about Michael Ashcroft are so damaging, because they play into a pre-existing - indeed, a centuries-old - perception that the Tories are the party of the well-off, looking out for the well-off.Of course there are process questions - what did Cameron and Hague know and when did they know it - but the heart of the matter remains simple: the Conservatives' deputy chairman is a billionaire hell-bent on influencing who writes the laws and sets the taxes of this country, but equally determined not to pay his share.
This is why the revelations about Michael Ashcroft are so damaging, because they play into a pre-existing - indeed, a centuries-old - perception that the Tories are the party of the well-off, looking out for the well-off.Of course there are process questions - what did Cameron and Hague know and when did they know it - but the heart of the matter remains simple: the Conservatives' deputy chairman is a billionaire hell-bent on influencing who writes the laws and sets the taxes of this country, but equally determined not to pay his share.
