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In a moment of refreshing honesty, British Conservative Leader Michael Howard has admitted to being 2-0 down at halftime in the UK election campaign.

Reports the Guardian:

Two-nil down at half-time is every manager’s nightmare. Your key players are sulking and that tough-tackling foreigner you signed to boost your attack has only motivated your opponent’s fans into getting behind their side.

Michael Howard appeared to concede the Tories were losing the election match yesterday in an attempt to inspire a Tory comeback. But rather than change tactics, the Tory leader talked of politics following football.

“You often find… there is a team that might be two goals down at half-time, they win the game,” Mr Howard, a Liverpool supporter, told ITV news.

But only twice this season have Premiership clubs done this. So he was forced to cite Chelsea. “I went to the Carling Cup final a few weeks back to watch my team, Liverpool, play Chelsea. We were ahead until the last 10 minutes and then we were screwed,” he said. “So the election is not over until May 5 and I am confident we can win that.”

Astute political observers will well remember Bill English - facing 10-, 15-, even 20-point deficits in the polls in the 2002 election campaign - looking directly into the TV cameras and saying time and time again that National was hearing from people around the country that the polls were wrong, that the Nats were coming back and getting within striking distance of Labour. Expect similar nonsense this year from Brash.

The comeback didn’t happen in 2002. It won’t happen this year. The sooner everyone looks at the scoreboard, the better, so the real discussion of this election year can begin: which coalition partner do we want governing with Labour during its third term?

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