"Tories offer bank shares for all as poll lead dives"

"Tories offer bank shares for all as poll lead dives" - (Headline in the Sunday Times - see link below to the actual article).

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7034960.ece

"One senior [Conservative] MP said last night: “The inner circle can crow all they like about how well they are doing, but the elephant in the room is the polls. Cameron spent last week talking about sexualisation of children and nine-year-old girls in suspenders, when there are much more important issues he should be talking about.”"

I smell panic!

'Late' news (10 a.m. Sunday):

Lord Mandelson (on the Andrew Marr show) has just described the Tory bank shares scheme as 'headline-grabbing incoherence.'

I still use shorter words and I still smell panic!