The polls should be a continuing worry to David Cameron, says Norman Tebbit in his Telegraph blog today. Although the election is far from decided, there is no sign of the 10 per cent plus that he needs to gain a working majority. The commentators are now talking about a repeat of 1992, when John Major’s government snatched an unlikely victory from Neil Kinnock.
That comparison is entirely false. The Major government had a credible record in its first two years and the benefit of the Thatcherite legacy of the previous eleven. There was no sense of finacial crisis. On the other hand Neil Kinnock was seen as a vacuous, loud-mouthed nobody, even by many Labour supporters. Not even Cameron’s detractors would put him in the same category as the geat windbag. As for Brown, who would rate his record above that of Major’s?
Read the full Telegraph article here.
