Brown is the natural heir to Thatcher

[Gromit]

Who says so? None other than Norman Tebbit.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/2007/09/26/ntebbit126.xml

He praised Mr Brown, saying: "I think he is a clever man and I have very considerable regard for him."

He described the visit of Baroness Thatcher to Downing Street as "Brown at his very best, a wonderful mixture of his courtesy and political nous".

Tebbit continued "After all Cameron described himself as the 'heir to Blair'. It's only natural that Brown should make himself the 'heir to Thatcher'. It's the perfect response, isn't it?
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Is this compliment damaging to Cameron. Coming so closely after Mrs T endorsing Brown? Or will Labour voters be alienated by Brown aligning himself with the Thatcherism?

[sp1814]

Gromit

We're living in a very strange times.

Labour taking us into war, Thatcher going to tea with Gordy in a red dress and now this.

Who knows...we may yet see Catherine Zeta Jones in a non-rubbish film yet (although I'm not holding my breath).

Oddly, I think that an endorsement from Tebbit won't actually harm Brown because he's not the fire-breathing socialist that he used to be back in the late 80s.

I don't think Labour voters will be put off by the endorsement, but I do think that there are Conservative voters who might be wooed by it.

[ruby27]

sp1814
yes strange times

yes they are getting confused over who should wear what colour

what do you mean - Zorro - rubbish film! Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. Two spectacularly attractive men on the screen at the same time. My male partner who is straight and fancies them both like mad can not watch them too often. (Actually Dear SP, should I be worried my husband of 20 years seems to enjoy watching Antonio more than he enjoys watching and listening to me - true its the same for me but I am female and straight, What do you suggest I should do to get his attention back? your worried reader)
Sorry sort of drifted off.

Being endorsed by Tebbit must be serioulsy scary

Sorry, but anything the Con party approves of must be automatically wrong - doctrine of Labour party and voters.

[naomi24]

I can't see Conservative voters being swayed by Norman Tebbit's newy discovered admiration of Brown, and nothing could damage Cameron more than he has damaged himself and the Conservative party. Anyone who falls for Brown's new line must have mud in their eyes, and those Conservatives who are jumping on the Gordon bandwagon are doing so simply to further their own careers,since they know that the Conservative cause is now hopeless. I don't trust Mr Brown one inch and right now he's spinning so fast I wonder he's not dizzy! A leopard doesn't change its spots -even if supposedly die-hard Conservatives do. Maybe it's a lesson for us all. Perhaps when Norman Tebbit described Brown as 'clever', what he really means is clever in the craftiest sense of the word. We should take it for granted now more than ever before that no poitician is ever honest.