Local Election Broadcast

In his new local election broadcast David Cameron meets some "real people" who tell him what they're worried about:

Comments

[Arthurian Legend]

Cameron actually encourages someone in the film to vote Labour!!

[Les]

He also says that it is right to celebrate the anniversary of slavery - A 'John Prescott' moment

[Tori P]

I wish the Conservatives would ditch the "vote blue, go green" slogan. He'll be attaching the word "green" to everthing next - green prisons, green immigration controls, green armed forces - the list goes on...!

[Hug a Druggie]

Dave is just wonderful. Where does he get his inspiration from?

[Denis Cooper]

Why should national party candidates in local elections be given the assistance of a free TV broadcast, when the same assistance is not given to independent candidates, even though they are far more likely to reflect the local concerns on which local elections should be fought?

[James cullis]

Changed our slogan please we cant do the same thing as last year!

[James Maskell]

Hahahaha. Political genius. He asks the opinions of a girl in school then point blank ignores it for a political lecture and blatantly contradicts her!

Will Cameron apologise for his role in Black Wednesday?

This was worse than the Labour job last night with the national double team of Blair and Brown. If we cant do the style right, heaven forbid what is coming on the substance side!

[VOTE FREEDOM]

Thank you for the prime time airing for the BNP and it just shows how scared the Tory party is of the success of the BNP that they talk about them in the broadcast. And how pityful that davey boy begs the man to vote for anyone but BNP. As a BNP supporter/voter the consistant line of the BNP is to spoil your ballot paper if you have no BNP candidate to vote for, By writing BNP on front and back of the ballot paper to show the support for the BNP. Come May 3rd the British people will speak and there will be no hiding place for the lies of the main three parties.

[matt wright]

Responsible people standing for election (whatever their party or stance) have to do much more that just say other parties lie or try to peddle highly simplistic solutions. The BNP tend to peddle these overly simplistic, everyone else is corrupt lines that don't actually advance democracy or local needs but only serve to further undermine democracy and trust. Anyone who has actually been a decent elected representative will have aquired a sense that there is a responsibility about how you campaign. Offering banal promises that everyone else is bent and only you know the answers signals a basic lack of understanding of the responsibilities of government.

[VOTE FREEDOM]

Matt,

You seem very niave, because every general election the main thrust of the campaigns normally drops the policies of what they are going to do but scare the people into thinking the other side will ruin the country. Tories did the demon eyes in the 90s and labour accuse DC of being the chameleon now. People only pick up on one thing from the BNP, yet they have many policies , "policy" a word tories are still to figure out.

[Peter Hatchet]

I have to agree with the commentators on Iain Dales site that this isn't one of David's best.

He did come over as a little "aggressive" in this broadcast. I feel he should have quietly listened and empathised more before gently suggesting how the Conservatives would approach the issues.

As he came across, it was more like a question time panel debate, a little barracking and (possibly) a little intimidating for the voters he spoke to?

Having said that, it's miles better than Labours broadcast which was cringeworthy with its stage-managed appearances by Brown/Blair and the ministers in the "call-centre".

My verdict? Our 2006 election broadcast was excellent, this years is adequate, but not impressive.