LEAVE should deploy David Davis – the only person apart from Clegg to have beaten Cameron in a TV debate

LEAVE should deploy David Davis – the only person apart from Clegg to have beaten Cameron in a TV debate

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No image problems like Gove, IDS or “twice sacked for dishonesty” Johnson What’s very striking so far in the campaign is the lack of effective communication skills amongst the LEAVE team. Iain Duncan Smith once again this morning showed how right Tory MPs were to sack him in 2003 and Gove hardly comes over convincingly though his writing is better than his TV appearances. For whatever reason the official LEAVE outfit is opposed to Farage having any role – a…

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A post Brexit vote recession could cost the Tories the next election

A post Brexit vote recession could cost the Tories the next election

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Can you spot what subtle message David Cameron is trying to get across if the UK votes to leave the EU? pic.twitter.com/szzuh9VBT0 — TSE (@TSEofPB) May 14, 2016 Brexiteers are in danger of being blamed for the next recession even if it has nothing do with Brexit On one side we have, inter alia, the Prime Minister, the Chancellor, and the great and the good, from the IMF, the OECD, NIESR, The Bank of England, and their Governor, Mark Carney,…

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Boris’s flexible approach to the truth appears to be catching up with him

Boris’s flexible approach to the truth appears to be catching up with him

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Boris Johnson accused of 'dishonest gymnastics' over TTIP U-turn https://t.co/hISwWVfW4w — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) May 14, 2016 .@TheEconomist becomes another voice questioning Boris Johnson's truthfulness https://t.co/AvdePerXi3 via — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) May 14, 2016 Good point about Boris & the truth from Jonathan Freedland. The would-be PM has been fired twice for dishonesty https://t.co/0CCFN1VSWY — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) May 14, 2016 A narrative is starting to develop which could destroy the favourite’s leadership ambitions

David Herdson on tonight’s big European election

David Herdson on tonight’s big European election

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Who is on for douze points? Hello and welcome once again to this European extravaganza; this celebration of all that is best and brightest about this continent; this joyous coming together of nations near and far. Oh all right, who am I kidding? The big question of course is will Britain triumph for the first time since Terry Wogan was in short trousers – and I don’t mean the lederhosen he sported that time in … apparently I’m not allowed…

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The big EURef advertising news is that the Saatchis are back

The big EURef advertising news is that the Saatchis are back

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  Saathci & Saatchi ad GE1979 Roger’s latest advertising commentary on the campaign ‘Facts aren’t important. What matters is what the public believes’ I noticed last week that Peter Marsh had died. He was a larger than life self publicist and showman and unlike most advertisers who believed in letting their work sell the agency he believed that selling himself sold the work. A big fan of Thatcher his agency was the fastest growing in the 80’s. His ads were recognisable…

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How LEAVE responds to authority interventions that it doesn’t like

How LEAVE responds to authority interventions that it doesn’t like

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Alastair Meeks goes through them one by one Authority figure Intervention Leave response OECD Leaving the EU was “equivalent to missing out on one month’s income within four years”. On a central scenario it estimated that the uncertainty caused by Britain seeking to leave the EU by late 2018 would knock 3 per cent off gross domestic product by 2020. Robert Oxley, Vote Leave spokesman:”The OECD is in the pay of the EU. JoséÁngelGurríais part of a global bureaucracy that…

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Vote LEAVE is naive if it thinks it can black-ball Farage for the entire campaign

Vote LEAVE is naive if it thinks it can black-ball Farage for the entire campaign

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BBC News list of events planned so far And Cameron isn’t going face to face with a fellow Tory So far we haven’t seen any betting markets linked to the referendum TV debates but that’s likely to happen as this becomes a bigger issue following the Vote Leave reaction to the ITV event planned for June 9th. This is when Farage and Cameron are due to appear in the same programme although they won’t debate directly with each other. Clearly…

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