Originally published @ 10:58 pm, Wed 12th May 2010
Special day for fans of Robin Hood as the new movie is launched.
My firiend Leon Unczur, the outgoing Sheriff of Nottingham, appeared on Channel 4 to proclaim Nottingham's preparedness for the tourist interest from the movie and to say -
"Robin Hood is more popular than the Beatles!"
"Who said that?" challenged the journalist.
"I did!" said Leon.
Leon got married in the Council House 3 years ago, in a civil partnership.
And it appears to be the common theme of media commentators today (Gyles Brandreth, Michael Crick) that David Cameron and Nick Clegg's first joint press conference came over as a civil partnership.
Cameron announced that the coalition was an inspiring, new politics. Which lasts as long as it takes you to realise that with a majority, he would have avoided this like the plague.
Talking to voters today, I met a degree of generosity in wishing the new arrangement well, but a degree of scepticism, essentially believing the coalition won't last.
Asked for my view by the Burton Mail, I ventured that since they were set to make earlier cuts in public spending and therefore demand in the economy, meaning jobs would be lost and economic growth put at risk, their popularity is set to fall. So both parties have to try to make the coalition work for 5 years in the hope that people will forget, or they will be in trouble.
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People will be surprised at the Conservatives not abandoning next year's National Insurance increase for employees!
The most obvious sign of coalition politics allowing politicians to drop grave promises made in elections within a week. Apparently a concession to the Lib Dems and people won't notice the difference anyway.
Now I understand that compromises will be made for a coalition.
But I never saw any subtlety in the Conservative posters that suggested that on ly the employers' elelemnnt of National Insurance was a jobs tax.
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