Newspapers begin to line up

If an election is called,it will be interesting to see which way the papers lie.

This morning's headlines see the Mail,Times and Telegraph fighting back on bekhaly of the Tory party,whilst the front page of the Sun provides almost a rallying cry to the Tories with its mission impossible claim to David Cameron.

The Guardian fights back for the left with a rebuttal of the Tories latest tax proposals.

Interesting to take a look at the leader pages.

The Sun says

FOR Tory leader David Cameron, it really does look like Mission Impossible.
He’s up to 11 points adrift of Gordon Brown in the polls and is racing against time to avoid an election he can only expect to lose.
Unless he makes the ground move for the voters this week, his party could be pulverised as a real Opposition, perhaps forever.
The Tories have dangerously misjudged the range and power of the new Prime Minister.

Whilst the Mail tells us

Why Britain needs Mr Cameron's vision

They may be trailing in the polls. They certainly have an Everest to climb. But who can write off the Tories when they pledge to put the family and marriage at the heart of official policy?
The contrast between this hugely significant advance in the battle of ideas and the vacuities parroted by so many Labour speakers last week could hardly be more glaring.

But it also makes clear that

If the polls and the Election speculation are right, the British people are about to stroll placidly and passively into another five years of New Labour government.
It is an outcome that they may well not really want but which they have been persuaded to accept, thanks to a historic blunder by the Tories and some clever image-making by Gordon Brown.

For the Telegraph,a rallying cry for the Tories

There was a welcome edge of aggression to William Hague's curtain-raiser at the Conservative conference in Blackpool yesterday. The target was not Labour, it was its leader.
Mr Hague dissected Gordon Brown's record with wince-making precision. He portrayed not the towering statesman of the Downing Street myth-makers, but a Prime Minister who "does violence" to the lifetime savings of millions with his raid on pension funds, who has piled new taxes on those who work the hardest, who breaks his word on an EU referendum, who treats rural Britain with contempt, who heads a Government that frequently fails to rise to even the most basic levels of administrative competence.

The Guardin though describes the outset of the conference as Blackpool Blues

Fractured and unsettled, the Conservative party gathered in Blackpool yesterday in search of confidence. A stuttering, soundless start to the day, as microphones failed, caught the confusion of a movement trapped between two identities. Dazzled a year ago by David Cameron's promise to "let the sunshine in", Conservatives have woken up to the vacuousness of that remark, and the limited help offered by such optimistic sentiments in difficult times. But they do not know if Mr Cameron will now offer them something more specific - stronger and sharper - although they are ready to hear it. The result is a party unsure of what its leader wants it to become, one being told it must believe in change, but unclear what that change is, or why it must be supported.

Cam looks for the exit says the Mirror

David Cameron could only want an early general election to put him out of his misery.

The Tory leader is stumbling towards defeat, whenever Gordon Brown decides to go to the country.
A politician who once pretended he was a new type of Conservative is reverting to familiar, failed old Tory tunes.
This time last year he was declaring his commitment to the NHS, a pledge greeted with a large dose of salt.
Now there seems to be no tax a desperate Cameron isn't promising to cut as he thrashes about for policies, any policies, he thinks might save his skin.