No battle is too dirty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1443781,00.html
Immigration, abortion, Gypsies: we must tell the Tories that no, we're
not thinking what they're thinking
Jonathan Freedland
Wednesday March 23, 2005
The Guardian
Two nuggets of conventional wisdom are solidifying before our eyes. The
first says that Michael Howard is descending into a new kind of tabloid
politics, exploiting moral panics stirred up by the press: one minute
it's Gypsies, the next immigration, smartly followed by cannabis or
abortion. His is the politics of the phone-in, championing whichever
populist obsession has just caught the public fancy - a move captured
in the brilliantly insidious Tory slogan, with its implied willingness
to stand with the common man in defiance of the politically correct
elites, and say the unsayable: "Are you thinking what we're thinking?"
Jonathan Freedland
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