...but is it?!
Gordon gets a real boost from Glenrothes. SIX PER CENT. Something must have come of that astonishing victory.
Reading and commentary tomorrow, along with the second part of the party developments. Some of the commentary alongside this poll reminds me of the radio quiz show "Brain of Britain", where contestants are still referred to as "Mr Brown" or "Mr Cameron" rather than "Gordon" or "Dave". My parents are the R4 addicts (I prefer iTunes or last.fm, or Reading's local 210 FM, which I got hooked on when I was 14) but I can't help thinking "that's forty-one points to Mr Cameron and thirty-five points to Mr Brown, with Mr Clegg still on 16" while reading the article. Despite its antiquity, BoB sounds more exciting than some more modern quiz shows, a bit like a horse race on Mogadon, but still more exciting on a rainy afternoon than Strictly Come X-Factor. Mastermind and University Challenge are weekly sports fixtures in our house, but that's a legacy of my working-class Bolton dad growing up in a household where the urge to better oneself came through the fly-paper acquisition of general knowledge. Trivial Pursuit is also a game we take very seriously, sometimes even enjoying away matches with my uncle in Alloa who does better because he additionally knows all the entertainment questions. My dad has 3 DVDs, mostly of Peter Kay, two still in the shrink-wrap. Uncle Ian has 300...
Erm...where were we? Oh yes. Politics.
Sorry to appear anti-Conservative but if they are going to raise their game properly they need a few weeks of relatively bad poll results to shock them out of their complacency. Game on!
