A quick round-up…
Michael Howard’s missus gets a two page spread in today’s News of the Screws.
Former Vogue model Sandra tells all about how the old codger wooed her.
We hear how most of the action took place on the purple bed sheets of his Chelsea bachelor pad (cf. William Hague’s 14 pints a day boast.)
It’s a transparent piece of myth-making.
Among the clumsy attempts to humanise him, we learn:
“He loves soppy films like Sleepless in Seattle, which he cried at.”
Shucks - that takes the edge of his iffy immigration policy, then.
Compare the quotes with her November 2004 interview in The Lady magazine:
“Yes, he’s very romantic, which is why I get frustrated that his image in the press isn’t at all like the man I know. He’s also quite sentimental and loves films like Sleepless in Seattle.”
Read more of of Sandra Howard’s heartfelt wisdom at her Conservatives.com campaign blog.
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Many people have told us they won’t vote on 5 May.
Reasons vary; many are indifferent to Labour, others feel impotent to change anything.
We’ll give you one reason why Michael Howard must never be Prime Minister.
He was asked on 8 November 2004 how a Tory government would handle refugees fleeing an atrocity abroad.
He said that once a quota had been met:
“We would say ‘I am really very sorry, but actually there is a limit to the number of refugees we can take’.”
Howard is a Romanian Jew whose family fled Nazi persecution - yet he would refuse protection to those suffering in similar situations.
Read his full statement and vow to vote.
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What’s the most trite political slogan you can think of?
Tough question - but we reckon ‘education, education, education’ must make the top three.
So spare a thought for Tory parliamentary candidate Ertan Hurer, who appears to have spent too long looking out the window when he should have been concentrating on his work.
The Hackney North hopeful used the headline on his leaflets - the same ones that misspell ‘parliamentary’ (spotted by Twistblog).
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The t-shirts certainly have something of the night about them, featuring an evil Thatcher/Howard hybrid.
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Conservative candidate Rob Wilson looks miffed in Friday’s Reading Evening Post.
Is it his iffy tweed suit? His party’s questionable policies on immigration?
Sadly, no. Instead, someone has added the strapline “Are you smoking what we’re smoking?” to his pride-and-joy poster.
Thanks to Lawrie for the scan.