{"id":425,"date":"2007-08-02T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=425"},"modified":"2007-08-02T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T21:27:00","slug":"will-he-call-an-election-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/will-he-call-an-election-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Will he call an election soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/riggott\/483069827\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/213\/483069827_24ef3b3810_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/riggott\/483069827\/\">It must be election day<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/riggott\/\">Matito<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Mirror today published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/topstories\/2007\/08\/02\/the-secret-memo-to-brown-89520-19557538\/\">secret memo<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_Gould\">Baron Gould of Brookwood<\/a>, Tony Blair&#8217;s (and, by the look of things, Gordon Brown&#8217;s) favourite pollster.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering for some time whether Brown would call an early election, and till now, I&#8217;ve been of the opinion he&#8217;s too cautious to risk it, but he seems to be following the guidelines in this memo so far, so I think he might also accept its conclusion, namely:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have to have a strategy of audacious advance. The best way of achieving this is to hold an early election after a short period of intense and compelling activity. A kind of &#8220;shock and awe strategy&#8221; blasting through the opposition and blasting us to the mid-40 per-cents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given how badly the Tories are doing at the moment, it really wouldn&#8217;t be surprising if he followed Gould&#8217;s advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be election day Originally uploaded by Matito The Mirror today published a secret memo by Baron Gould of Brookwood, Tony Blair&#8217;s (and, by the look of things, Gordon Brown&#8217;s) favourite pollster. I&#8217;ve been wondering for some time whether Brown would call an early election, and till now, I&#8217;ve been of the opinion he&#8217;s too cautious to risk it, but he seems to be following the guidelines in this memo so far, so I think he might also accept its conclusion, namely: We have to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}