MEG, we here ya

[don]

Just like in the good ole USA, 2 wings of the same party compete not with sabers drawn but with dueling mirrors....

David Cameron launched the Conservative election manifesto today with a direct appeal to "working people" who feel abandoned by Labour and idealists who would be disappointed by the Liberal Democrats.

In the symbolic setting of Battersea power station, which is set to be the focus of a regeneration project, the Tory leader cast himself as a unifying national figure and said his party had abandoned its unpopular recent past.
"In every area, on every issue, our modern Conservative values are clear," Cameron said in a lengthy speech on a platform in front of his shadow cabinet, who sat among young supporters.

"No more narrow focus on a few issues. No more harking back to bygone days."

Cameron, who needs to secure the biggest swing to his party since 1931 to win a parliamentary majority of just one, said the Tories could now appeal beyond their core support.

"We stand for the working people that Labour has abandoned with their jobs tax and their waste," he said. "We stand for the idealists that the Liberal Democrats will inevitably disappoint because they cannot win this race."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...tive-manifesto

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Re: MEG, we here ya

Just like in the good ole USA, 2 wings of the same party compete not with sabers drawn but with dueling mirrors....

David Cameron launched the Conservative election manifesto today with a direct appeal to "working people" who feel abandoned by Labour and idealists who would be disappointed by the Liberal Democrats.

In the symbolic setting of Battersea power station, which is set to be the focus of a regeneration project, the Tory leader cast himself as a unifying national figure and said his party had abandoned its unpopular recent past.
"In every area, on every issue, our modern Conservative values are clear," Cameron said in a lengthy speech on a platform in front of his shadow cabinet, who sat among young supporters.

"No more narrow focus on a few issues. No more harking back to bygone days."

Cameron, who needs to secure the biggest swing to his party since 1931 to win a parliamentary majority of just one, said the Tories could now appeal beyond their core support.

"We stand for the working people that Labour has abandoned with their jobs tax and their waste," he said. "We stand for the idealists that the Liberal Democrats will inevitably disappoint because they cannot win this race."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...tive-manifesto

As anyone that has taken a train south out of London will have seen, the Battersea power station is quite an elegant bit of industrial architecture. With the symmetrical-about-two-axes towers with their fluted stacks it is one of the most iconic Art Deco buildings in the UK. Unfortunately, just like the Conservative Party, it's emblematic of an era that has passed...

[*T*]

Re: MEG, we here ya

Just like in the good ole USA, 2 wings of the same party compete not with sabers drawn but with dueling mirrors....

David Cameron launched the Conservative election manifesto today with a direct appeal to "working people" who feel abandoned by Labour and idealists who would be disappointed by the Liberal Democrats.

In the symbolic setting of Battersea power station, which is set to be the focus of a regeneration project, the Tory leader cast himself as a unifying national figure and said his party had abandoned its unpopular recent past.
"In every area, on every issue, our modern Conservative values are clear," Cameron said in a lengthy speech on a platform in front of his shadow cabinet, who sat among young supporters.

"No more narrow focus on a few issues. No more harking back to bygone days."

Cameron, who needs to secure the biggest swing to his party since 1931 to win a parliamentary majority of just one, said the Tories could now appeal beyond their core support.

"We stand for the working people that Labour has abandoned with their jobs tax and their waste," he said. "We stand for the idealists that the Liberal Democrats will inevitably disappoint because they cannot win this race."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...tive-manifesto

I find it amusing that you suggest there may be a connection between what he says and what he would actually do.

[WDCRob]

Re: MEG, we here ya

Nice image GRG... reminded me of the Tate Modern.



Very nice site for a museum. The massive ship-docking hall inside (see bottom photo) is on a scale that you never see anymore - the experience of being dwarfed stuck with me.