Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Osborne out?...

Between meetings I have just listened to the 11 minute video of David Cameron at Lewisham College. It wasn't given a particularly easy ride: there is some heckling but essentially he is received politely and he handles it well. The reason I'm posting (as the enjoyable Wintour and Watt blog at the Guardian, Conservative Home and Iain Dale have made enough comment if you're interested) is that when questioned about experience and having a good team behind him he mentions only Ken Clarke and William Hague...nothing sinister but it struck me as odd and nobody seems to have picked up on it.

P.S. A couple of well versed questioners re Thatcher, the recession and unemployment; if this were New Labour they would be scurrying around investigating who asked what and why to smear and "reveal" the plant.

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4 comments:

Paul said...

The big open secret is that Ken Clarke is going to be chancellor and that Cameron doesn't rate Osborne beyond their friendship. The KC story has been doing the rounds of the financial pages in plain sight as they say over the water, with regards to Osborne it became clear in last weeks TV interview that he will be asked to fall on his sword.

Span Ows said...

oooh, I don't believe that! :-)

It's just a ploy to fool GO's detractors! Mind you with some of the guff I've been hearing [IMHO] there's plenty of opportunity for George to replace any number of other Shadow positions.

Paul said...

I'm split on GO to be honest. I think he comes across well in interviews but I've always thought Ken Clarke was the big one that was allowed to get away.

Span Ows said...

I think he is fine but not compared to KC, which makes you wonder if the change is imminent as you say. GO is their election organiser so I wonder whether there is a surprise sudden swap to throw Labour off kilter.