The elderly voters deserted the Conservatives at the general election

Mike Smithson at Political Betting has a great article that includes the above chart.

'There’s one group of voters that traditionally the Tories have been able to regard as bankers – the oldies, those in the growing 65+ age segment.

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 My analysis of that, reflected in the chart above, finds that the PM is struggling to hold onto to the oldies. The chart numbers are based on subtracting those who have an unfavourable view of TMay from those who have a favourable one.

As is shown she had been doing extremely well with the 65+ group with huge favourability margins.

In the latest polling she’s still in positive territory but only just by just 4 points. It used to be 55%

This doesn’t bode well for the blue team if there is a new general election which the party’s precarious parliamentary position might well lead to.

She used to be an electoral asset. Now it is looking like she is an electoral liability.'

Why did Theresa May attack the elderly in her Conservative Party manifesto? Stupidity or deliberate, I can think of no other reasons.

The one hundred and ninety ninth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

'The government's Fixed Term Parliaments Act was a "mistake", ex-Conservative cabinet minister Ken Clarke has said.'

More here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31917502

No shit, Sherlock

'Rape porn' possession to be punished by three years in jail, David Cameron to announce | Metro News

Unsurprisingly they haven't thought this through. Are anybody with DVDs, or similar, of one or more of Deliverance, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo to face a prison sentence?

Metro article here http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/17/rape-porn-possession-to-be-punished-by-three-years-in-jail-david-cameron-to-announce-4189512/

Conservatives go to war on 'bias’ at the BBC - Telegraph

'A bitter battle is breaking out between senior Cabinet ministers and the BBC, with claims that the corporation is "biased" and "too close to Labour". '

Finally some Conservatives have woken up, but it's too late to do anything about it. BBC propagandise and campaign for Labour and against Conservatives, for Palestinians and against Israel, for Barack Obama and against Republicans etc. The BBC has too much control over the media narrative, it should be broken up and licence fee made optional if they can't be unbiased.

More at The telegraph

Is William Hague really a total f**kwit?

from William Hague's speech at the Mansion House about the Middle East comes one of the most delusional comments ever:

'The EU already has the tools and the resources for the task. What it has lacked is the will to use them well. We should use the EU’s economic magnetism to encourage and support real political and economic reform. That means a new partnership with the southern neighbourhood with a simple proposal at its heart: that the EU will share its prosperity and open up markets in return for real progress on political and economic reform.

The EU should offer broad and deep economic integration, leading to a free-trade area and eventually a customs union, progressively covering goods, agriculture and services, as well as the improvement of conditions for investment. All of this must should be accompanied by our partners achieving clear and sustainable political and economic reform.'

There's a lot of crap in thre but this phrase really does take the biscuit - "the EU’s economic magnetism" - this on the day that I hear rumours of a crisis meeting in Germany - will Greece quit euro?

If William Hague truly believes that the EU is the answer to the Middle East's problems then maybe he has truly lost the plot.