InVinceCable We Trust

This Thursday’s leaders’ debate on the BBC – the final one before the election – will focus on the economy, the most critical issue and the one which will define the success or otherwise of the next Government.

You can submit questions for the debate on the BBC website here, and we’ve been encouraging as many people as possible to submit the following question:

“In the event of a hung parliament, do you agree that Vince Cable is the person best-qualified to hold the position of chancellor of the exchequer?”

It’ll only take a few seconds of your time and we think – given what all the polls are saying – that it’s an incredibly relevant one.

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The following video “Vince Cable’s Way” has graced our homepage for the past week or so, but that prime position has now gone to our commuity’s latest entertaining offering, “Vince Charming”. Of course, depending on when you read this, it may not be there now, so both are embedded below for your enjoyment. And you can always catch us at the InVinceCable YouTube channel of course.

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As we’ve been saying for ages – and as is now widely accepted – Vince Cable is the only realistic candidate for chancellor with the credentials to do the job. If it were a job interview in the private sector, he’d stroll into the position (Darling having been rejected for being a lawyer, Osborne for not having a shred of relevant experience).

But it’s not only in cold, hard economic terms where Vince’s numbers add up to the winning total. With proper nouns now being allowed in Scrabble he manages to take top prize there too.

‘Vince Cable’ will score you a tidy 19 (without any double or triple letter or word bonuses). ‘Alistair Darling’ and ‘George Osborne’ – despite both containing more letters – will only net you a miserly 17 apiece. And if you use the full ‘Vincent’ you’ll get another couple of points on top. A bonus we can all be happy with.

If you don’t believe us, you can check our sums on the scrabble score calculator.

“Ah, yes,” mutter the smartarses, “but ‘Vincent’ is Cable’s middle name. His real first name is John.”

OK, OK. In the interests of fair play we’ll use the candidates’ proper full names. John Vincent Cable, Alistair Maclean Darling and Gideon Oliver Osborne (stop sniggering at the back…)

The scores on the doors? Cable, 35. Darling 28. Osborne, 26.

This is starting to look like an opinion poll, isn’t it?

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Rory Cellan-Jones took the opportunity to present the InVinceCable website to viewers of BBC 24 this lunchtime. (BBC 24 News isn’t available on iPlayer, but if we can get hold of the video or a still we’ll post it here.)

Rory is covering Election 2012 from a digital / social media perspective. Having referenced our campaign in a blog post on the 24th March, Rory obviously considers the work we’re all doing on the campaign to have achieved a certain momentum warranting the BBC’s attention.

Perhaps it was our making Vince the Mayor of Number 11 Downing Street?! Perhaps it’s our new tongue-in-cheek video? Perhaps it’s because our Crowd Flutter had William Hill suspend bets and then shorten the odds on Vince becoming Chancellor? Perhaps it’s everything, little, cheeky or more substantial, that we’re all getting stuck in to.

Please do register your interest in the campaign by completing the short form on our website, or joining our Facebook group, or following our tweets, or wearing our Twibbon, or all of these and more! BBC or not, we’re only as successful as the number of voices we can bring together.

Our objective is simple: To harness a groundswell of the UK electorate such that, in the event of a hung parliament, the Prime Minister has no choice but to invite Vince Cable to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Thanks.

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In what some could call a “cheeky” PR tactic, the #invincecable campaign team has made our man FourSquare’s Mayor of Number 11 Downing Street, the residency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Now you could say FourSquare remains nascent. You could argue that there wasn’t much competition for the venue. But that’s missing the point… we just did it. It took 7 minutes and 42 seconds. And here’s screenshots to prove it, and the first all important media coverage too.

With your support, in fact only with your support, we might be able to announce a different position for Dr. Cable at 11 Downing Street come 7th May 2010.

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Great post by politics.co.uk earlier today.

According to a post by Sandamali Zbyszewski, Ladbrokes have cut the odds on our man Vince Cable becoming chancellor from 16/1 to 10/1. Lib Dem spokesman, Nick Weinberger told politics.co.uk: “This is quite surprising but we think it’s because the media are talking up the likelihood of a hung parliament.”

Maybe but less than two weeks ago our campaign caused William Hill to suspend all bets on Vince Cable for Chancellor following the success of #invincecable’s #crowdflutter.

Let’s have have a quick look at the odds on offer elsewhere today:

- William Hill are offering 7/1 for Vince Cable to deliver the first budget of the next government (Darling 8/1, Osborne 2/5)

- Paddy Power are offering 4/1 for Chancellor of the Exchequer being the most senior job held by a Lib Dem in a hung parliament. While Vince Cable as Chancellor outright is at 8/1 (Darling 7/2, Osborne 4/11)

- Betfair on the other hand have Vince Cable at 9/1 with Osborne at 3/1… but no sign of Darling on the betting sheet at the moment.

It seems that in the bookies’ eyes Vince Cable has leapfrogged Darling as Britain’s next Chancellor. Just Osborne to go!

Night all

Chris

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Sean O’Grady writes a super commentary article pivoting around the prospect of a hung parliament in today’s Independent under the title “Get ready for Vince in Number 11“.

There seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding about what will happen in the hung parliament that now seems inevitable. The misunderstanding is that Nick Clegg will find it difficult to extract concessions from Gordon Brown and that a Lib-Lab coalition would be tricky to put together. He won’t and it wouldn’t. In fact it has the air of inevitability about it. If he wants, Clegg can have the alternative vote, he can get Vince Cable into the Treasury, himself a nice cabinet job and junior posts for others, and, far more important, an agreed four-year programme for economic recovery and reducing the budget deficit.

Sean completes this paragraph with the assertion “Job done”. We love his optimism, but we have a long way to go yet, including the need to coalesce and focus public sentiment on this outcome.

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