Political Insiders slam 'Promise of Britain' |

Tuesday 27th September 2011 | 14:03

Political Insiders slam 'Promise of Britain'

A small majority of our political insiders saw Ed Miliband’s proposed reduction of the tuition fees cap to £6,000 as ‘bad politics’ (52%) with 42% seeing it as ‘good politics’. There were far more who pitched themselves strongly against it as a strategic move (21%) than were in strongly in favour (10%). This chimes in closely with figures we released yesterday, suggesting our insiders viewed Labour’s opposition to the Coalition’s programme of deficit reduction as damaging to their wider brand, particularly to their economic credibility. There have also been many conversations around Labour conference that £6000 will be insufficiently psychologically different from the current policy to give a real sense of political differentiation.

Our insiders were fairly evenly split on Ed Balls’ speech yesterday, with 40% feeling he had done a good job so far this week of improving Labour’s economic credibility, with 44% disagreeing. Again, many more were pitted strongly against the Shadow Chancellor (20%) than were strongly in favour (7%).

Finally, our panel panned Labour’s conference slogan ‘Fulfilling the Promise of Britain’, with 63% seeing it as ‘bad’ (including 39% ‘very bad’) and just 18% ‘good’ (4% ‘very good'). This would suggest that political insiders raise an eyebrow towards Ed Miliband’s overt strategy of pitching the Labour Party as champions of a 'new bargain', some kind of British progressive version of the American Dream. Without ‘the beef’ of eye-catching policy to drive the narrative, the strategy seems to fall flat.

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Red Rag

18:35 |
28 Sep 2011
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Can I write the one for the Conservative Conference for you: PoliticsHomes Independent Insiders **** views -: 100% thought Camerons speech was Brilliant (97% orgasmic and 3% utterly out of this world). 100% thought the Tory slogan "It wasn't me guvonor, it was the other lot" for the conference was fantastic with 99% of them thinking it was the best slogan ever. 100% thought Osbornes speech was economic heaven with 98% of them saying if it got any better they would have exploded. 100% though that this was the platform to win the next election and the fifteen after that with 98% of them thinking they will will every election until the end of time. *** the views of our independent Political Insiders where chosen from members of Eton, News International, The Daily Mail editorial staff and the Bullingdon Club.

David Dee

23:15 |
02 Oct 2011
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George Osborne disagrees with the figure that 100% thought that Cameron's speech was excellent. He states that the true figure is 110% and will probably be revised upwards in line with the figures for growth !!!

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