Conservative Financial Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke appeared on the Daily Politics show this morning and was more than proud of the list of 5,000 entrepreneurs who supported a Conservative led Government after May 7th. This looks very impressive and Gauke would have every right to be chuffed about this.......well that is if the list was completely bulletproof and there was no dirty fingerprints all over it and I did hope that was the case. However, this list is littered with errors and out and out lies and can be summed up in 2 words : Tory Propaganda. The first thing that stands out is that 6 names on this list are actually candidates for the Conservative party, including Ben Manton, the candidate for South Belfast. Manton's name is very questionable as he is not just a Conservative candidate for South Belfast, but I am positive that Michael Deane, the owner of Deanes Restaurant Group, was shocked to hear that one of his baristas, known as Ben Manton, was claiming to be the owner of the restaurant. Manton is not the only non business owner on the list as the job positions of some signatories include sub postmaster and office manager. In addition to this, the author of this list is listed as CCHQ Admin (Conservative Campaign Headquarters) showing that not only had the Conservatives left fingerprints at the scene of the crime, the went ahead and left a semen stain and saliva swab, leaving us in no doubt at who the culprit is.
The list is no more than a Tory stunt in an effort to show their strength with small business owners ahead of May 7th but its clear to all that David Cameron is not capable of leading this country through the next 5 years of austerity. With his parade of media cock ups including 2 in the last month in which he crumbled under Paxman and forgot what football team he supported. The Aston Villa/West Ham gaffe was just about as painful to watch as an actual Aston Villa v West Ham match. Cameron's pathetic attempt to humanise the public schoolboy and make him more populist only made him look even more out of touch from the every day person. Cameron has come underfire for his robust, mediocre media "performances" this campaign and rightly so. Even when he had a Channel 4 audience and Kay Burley playing nice and saving the hard questions for Milliband, he still showed the charisma and drive of a brick wall. After a series of lacklustre media interviews, Cameron has claimed that there is drive behind his campaign. Well Dave, surely if you have to come out and say that, there is a slight chance that you are just bland, uncharismatic and not the right man for the job
