tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post4974725883913650803..comments2023-11-03T15:48:35.688+00:00Comments on Paul Linford: The changing face of politicsPaul Linfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977920120772282561noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-49510322538278981112009-05-11T13:43:00.000+01:002009-05-11T13:43:00.000+01:00Paul
I think Hazel will be lucky to survive the ch...Paul<br />I think Hazel will be lucky to survive the chop after next month's reshuffle. Smith will go too I reckon.skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02632351344359303404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-38977429052809459762009-05-10T23:11:00.000+01:002009-05-10T23:11:00.000+01:00Anyone thinking of Hazel Blears as PM material sho...Anyone thinking of Hazel Blears as PM material should watch her own recent new media performance, an <A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/video/2009/apr/25/monbiot-meets-hazel-blears" REL="nofollow">internet video interview with George Monbiot</A>, where she comes across rather lightweight. A PM need to be able to handle Monbiot-type interviewers well.<br /><br />rwendlandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-44526616657181110002009-05-09T20:58:00.000+01:002009-05-09T20:58:00.000+01:00Hazel Blears "YouTube if you want to..." was a sur...Hazel Blears "YouTube if you want to..." was a surprising piece of genuine wit from one of the most useless politicians to have sat round the cabinet table in recent years. But she's an irrelevance, no more lik3ely to end up as PM than Jack Straw (ie zilch prospect).<br /><br />If every single MP in the house ended up losing their seat as a direct result of their morally indefensible expense Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464069586293077271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-3424443385831475152009-05-09T17:14:00.000+01:002009-05-09T17:14:00.000+01:00I'm not sure there's much of a parallel between Th...I'm not sure there's much of a parallel between Thatcher and Blears.<br /><br />Blears doesn't have any new ideas; she's in a party which looks like it's going down in a record defeat; she's just been fingered as having made one of the most conspicuous of the dodgy expense claims. I can't see her being remembered in thirty years' time.Bath plugs for the many, not the fewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-48723685584949311282009-05-09T11:00:00.000+01:002009-05-09T11:00:00.000+01:00Paul your observation regarding the replay of the ...Paul your observation regarding the replay of the 1979 General Election -<br />"and hearing Labour politicians speaking with genuine working-class accents"<br />- hits many nails on their heads with how I feel about nuLabor.<br />I always felt that Tony Wots His Name & his Merry Men were like the Young Conservatives taking over the Labour Party, hence my dis-satisfaction with the Barnacle Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257546424880537005noreply@blogger.com