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Canadians go to the polls next week in an election that has echoes of the British General Election in May – the most intriguing being the involvement of Lynton Crosby.
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Kids Company select committee session is off the charts.
Something has finally got him off Corbyn and the Labour meltdown!
Errr.....its Sadiq that's proposing ethnic quotas and positive discrimination, isn;t it, treacle???
Genuine question. In what way are Harper and Crosby exploiting "Islamophobia?"
I think the writer's point is that the tories will play the islam card if Zac starts to fall behind.
The latter will no doubt keep Twitter entertained for the afternoon.
Or have we forgotten Phil Woolas?
I'm sure Crosby deserves a lot of credit for the 2015 victory but a majority was won in 2015 by "love-bombing" the Liberals and taking over the centre-ground, not playing race cards.
But you can't deny it gets results.
But, I'd be surprised if the Conservatives try to whip up feeling against Khan because he's a Muslim. Ken Livingstone was a good deal more shameless in trying to exploit ethnic animosity.
4. Be positive, and don’t rely on Ed Miliband
David Cameron is the Conservatives’ biggest single asset and continues to trounce Ed Miliband in the leadership ratings. But while many people will vote Conservative because of Cameron, others will vote Labour despite Miliband. Aggressively pointing out his flaws, which they can see anyway, will not change their vote – but, as in 2010, it will represent a missed opportunity to show why they should support us instead.
http://bit.ly/1VTTvZI
Labour use Muslims to make the white folks angry, not the Tories.
But yes Don, the "good guys" of the Left never ever play race cards *rolleyes*. Don's articles are always the most partisan and extreme but he has jumped the shark here.
Labour actually produced different manifestos for different races at the election
If that's true they deserved to lose heavily.
PS I didn't expect you to castigate or condemn Cameron in any way, however if Ed put a turban on............
I suppose it's a symptom of the left's failure to understand that not everyone thinks they are any more the 'good guys' than their opponents are, and that therefore anyone who doesn't vote for the left must by definition have been manipulated.
It's a particularly bizarre view from the party of Alastair Campbell.
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/654345058204778496
He was in no way teased at school for having that surname.
Bloody Iranians coming over here, ruining our surnames
Labour's researchers really should have found it before the debate yesterday, it might have given them some ammunition. Most Chancellors try a similar political stunt, but McDonnell fell into the big trap.
Here's something that I've learned from this test match
“What’s the difference between Dubai and Abu Dhabi?”
“People in Dubai don’t like the Flintstones but people in Abu Dhabi doooooo.”
I suppose the Tory reaction is simply that the people were wrong when they vote in Labour, but they seem more inclined to state directly they were wrong, ie stupid, as opposed to the sometime used Left view that the public are wrong, but they didn't mean it, ie they are both stupid and infantile to boot.
It feels like wanting to blame the public without actually appearing to blame them, so you call one side good and one bad, and identify manipulators who fooled the public who would definitely support you if they understood.
The extremes seem to take this to bizarre ends, as should be expected - no self awareness when proclaiming to speak for the nation, even if the nation voted in the opposite way, because the vote didn't count, people know who the good guys are and that counts.
As it is, Crosby might come up with strategems which play well with the public, but that doesn't make people 'falling' for it less responsible - if he is playing a race card and the public go for it, the problem is that they went for it, not merely that someone played the card, so the 'problem' is still the people.
The election will be another test of polling. We've had a fair few elections this year (UK, Greece, Israel) where the polls have turned out to be dangerously misleading. A three-way race with a very experienced incumbent who is currently not flavour of the month looks like exactly the type of contest to cause pollsters to wake up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat.
What I object to is having different manifestos for different races/genders etc and viewing people as "the black vote", "the Muslim vote", "the woman vote". I believe in individuality and think we should appeal to people as they are and not a caste.
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/06/67/be/37/longleat.jpg
https://twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/status/654605736056614912
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson
Thanks for keeping me updated on the Kids Company committee meeting today while I was stuck on a bus in Holloway.
If anyone else missed it live you can catch it on the Parliamentlive.tv website.
Be warned, it can be a little buffery.
http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/5e1ce27a-7279-4ba3-9f3f-ed9998fbae7e
Lets take your argument to its logical conclusion - should he wear a claret and blue shirt to Villa Park (or is it West Ham today?), a turban in Gravesend, kilt in Edinburgh, etc etc or should dress like the Prime Minister of the UK and simply wear a dark suit and tie? There is a reason he's known as Heir to Blair and its not complimentary.
I'd genuinely love to view politics in the simplistic, tribal way you do where whatever Cameron does is ok.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Baumgardner
Blimey, that’s even worse - some parents can be so cruel….
Is this a misnomer, I wonder. I often see female muslims covered in make-up, wearing heels and jewelry, sporting expensive mobile phones and brighty coloured headscarves. I even see some of the young men having sneaky beers in very crowded modern style pubs where its difficult to pick people out.
Who knows what they vote in the privacy of the poll booth?
What I won't do is suggest we treat you differently based on your religion or race. That is where I draw the line, not clothing. I'm superficial like you I guess.
Health and Safety Executive has brought charges against Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust over the deaths of four elderly patients
It is deeply damaging to social cohesion, condescending and offensive to the people concerned and the very opposite of true diversity.
Not being fashionable is different to always wearing the same thing in all situations. Some people go crazy over shoes, I have three pairs of shoes - every day, smart, sport. I would rather not be judged over my shoes.
You are contrary in your view, you won't treat anybody differently based on their religion but you'll dress to please or appease them.