Clash Of The Spin Doctors?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27062278
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23551323
this is going to be a scrap!

[emmie]

comes to something in British politics that both sides hire Americans to rubbish the other party, how absolutely stupid

[Canary42]

A pointless scrap at that.

[Gromit]

BOTH Labour and the Conservatives hired Obama Strategisst at the LAST election. It didn't do either of hem much good.

The truth is the political campaigning system are very different in the UK and the US. The last election was supposed to won online with Twitter, Blogs and YouTube videos. That was how Obama was perceived to have edged it in 2008. Except the British public were disinterested. The last General Election Campaign decended into its usually posters and soundbites knockabouts.

I suspect these US strategist will soon be marginalised when the campaign gets underway proper.

[Farriercm]

Think we had enough of a previous PM, Who thought they were American ,
from about 1979 -1987.

[ToraToraTora]

there is no PM who served those dates farrier why don't don't you supliment your BS with the occasional scrap of knowledge.

[mikey4444]

dave will need Paul Daniels rather any spin doctor, if they are to make up enough ground before next May !

[Farriercm]

Why would Dave need a Spin Doctor, to show him how to loose the next election . He and his fellow Cons, are doing a good enough job of that themselves.

[Gromit]

// a previous PM from about 1979 -1987. //

// there is no PM who served those dates farrier //

There is.

[douglas9401]

I heard wee Dougie Alexander asked on the radio yesterday how much they were paying and would their man have a desk here.
His answers of 'a six figure sum' and 'he will be here a couple of times during the campaign' or words to that effect left me wondering if I could get an appointment to sell Labour some magic beans I've fallen heir to. They come with a free set of emperor's new clothes.
I felt that when the bald questions were put to him, he suddenly realised how stupid the whole thing is.

[Farriercm]

Gromit Thank you for a sensible answer.

[mushroom25]

// a previous PM from about 1979 -1987. //

// there is no PM who served those dates farrier //

There is.

I suppose November 1990 could be described as "about 1987".......

[ToraToraTora]

OK we are playing lefty semantics are we? ok YB served from 1997 to 1998. The PM that Farrier is talking about served from 1979 to 1990. Actually won her 3rd election in 1987.

[Farriercm]

Who is worried about precise dates ?Everyone knows the PM I Have got in mind, This PMs own Son was Banned from entering USA Because of his criminal record , another clue,the Son tried to drive across a desert once in a Range Rover .

[mushroom25]

//another clue, the Son tried to drive across a desert once in a Range Rover . //

I suppose a Peugeot 504 could, under certain light conditions, be confused with a range rover.

[ToraToraTora]

don't expect any knowledge from farrier, as far as I can tell he has passed unscathed through the education system.

[Svejk]

an idiot savant without the savant