Time for a break
91Èȱ¬ again. Phew. Just time to pack my bags and head off again on the family holiday. Never would have guessed that I would be heading off with an ultra confident Prime Minister Brown soaring in the polls - and a stricken Mr Cameron sliding in them. Still, the Autumn is another country.
In my absence Newslog will not rest. I am handing it over to my highly capable colleague Laura Kuenssberg, who will chart the summer of action ahead.
If like me, you're off for a rest - enjoy. If not, stay tuned...
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"Never would have guessed that I would be heading off with an ultra confident Prime Minister Brown soaring in the polls - and a stricken Mr Cameron sliding in them. Still, the Autumn is another country."
Really? You didn't think there would be a Brown bounce and a Tory panic. Perhaps a week outside the Westminster village talking to normal voters outside the M25 should be included on you summer itinerary.
Have a nice holiday, Nick. Hope you can find some of that peace, serenity, and happiness and bring some back to share with everyone. If you bring back some photos and moments with you I'm sure everyone would enjoy it. In the meantime, let go, let go, let go.
I wonder where Nick is going, Ibiza perhaps?
You betetr have a restful holiday Nick because the autumn is going to be very very busy in UK politics,what wit the generel election and all!
Ibiza or perhaps faliraki or magaluf?!!! Wherever it is Nick have a Rave!!!
Nick, as an American, I apologize to you on behalf of our idiot president. He is not a class act, but you are, keep asking the tough questions. In fact, please re-double your efforts - Bush has a guilty conscious regarding the 9-11 conspiracy and we (the public) rely on independent journalists to get to the truth.
Firstly I predicted a rise in Labour's poll when Brown took over as PM a fair while back, and later got the figure right.
People were tired of Blair on the whole, and that depressed the rating.
But this is no "bounce" as the Tories hope.
It is looking like a sea change when many natural tories accept that Labour once again has a leader whom they can trust.
Accordingly they will not bother to vote, or will turn out and vote Labour.
Brown is capturing conservatively minded people, quite fairly and honestly, on the right. (Oh, and few practical conservatives care all that about the Reform Treaty, they care about money and secuity.)
Beware praise of Gordon Brown by the Tory media and its associates. This is the forerunner to massive character assassination a la Tony Blair. Wait until the holiday is over: everything wrong for the PM or, at best, partly right but badly managed. It is inevitable. If you have doubts keep a running record.
David Cameron will be spending his holiday contemplating miracles. How to convince floating voters that his program would be carried out by a front bench of Eton schoolboys and , simultaneously, to convince the Conservative party and followers that the program would not be carried out.