We thought we'd resurrect the above graphic (from last October) to mark Labour's latest attempts to copy Tory policies. Brown made his draft Queen's Speech statement earlier and David Cameron noticed quite a lot of policy pinching. During PMQs Brown had accused the Tory leader of being shallow. Cameron responded: "He can’t really say we haven’t got any substance when he’s taken it all and put it in his Queen’s Speech."
CCHQ has just published a "dirty dozen" of Tory policies that Labour has stolen (but won't implement properly). See this PDF.
The text of David Cameron's full response to the Queen's Speech is here.
Brown needs somebody to love....at the end of the day he's boring...
Posted by: martin | May 14, 2008 at 19:37
I see that CCHQ has forgotten to add the other, more substantial policies that it proposed and Labour has now pinched:
#1 The non-dom levy
#2 Extension to state funding of political parties.
Let Labour pinch the glossy headline-friendly but inconsequential ideas as it will at least strip down the supposed ideas that cchq has to see if, when they replace Labour, they actually have a plan and not just a list of things they won't do (see Grayling on Newsnight).
Posted by: Chad Noble | May 15, 2008 at 09:23
And people wonder why David Cameron is being coy about releasing his policies this far in advance of the election. I saw John Rentoul in the Independent having a dig at Cameron for not coming up with alternative policies, but can you blame him when Labour just steal the good ones?
Posted by: Letters From A Tory | May 15, 2008 at 09:37
If you really think Labour are stealing your policies, and that these Tory ideas are the best for country, why not release them? Or are seriously putting the good of the party before the good of the country?
This "copy cat" stuff is like being at Primary school. If someone has a good idea in politics then you are pretty much obliged to use it an implement it.
Posted by: passing leftie | May 15, 2008 at 10:47
Mind you this started when Tiny Blur and the Cronies took a chainsaw to the Labour Party's constitution back in the 90's.
Margret Thatcher won the argument on communism, and down came the Berlin Wall and Clause 4.
Posted by: Bexie | May 15, 2008 at 13:05