tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post6125446426142526358..comments2023-11-03T15:48:35.688+00:00Comments on Paul Linford: Is this what Blair v Brown would have been like?Paul Linfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977920120772282561noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-22272142885649270072007-11-21T08:21:00.000+00:002007-11-21T08:21:00.000+00:00Ashdown and Campbell SDP-inspired? Shurely shome ...Ashdown and Campbell SDP-inspired? Shurely shome mishtake? Ashdown was elected as a Liberal MP in 83, and Campbell was elected as a Liberal MP in 87.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-48142404199733051992007-11-20T17:39:00.000+00:002007-11-20T17:39:00.000+00:00Huhne and Clegg are both yellow Tories. Not an ins...Huhne and Clegg are both yellow Tories. <BR/><BR/>Not an insult, as such, just a description. The age of the SDP-inspired Lib Dem leadership(Ashdown, Kennedy and Campbell)is now over. Huhne, Clegg, Laws et al. are basically pro-european, liberal Tories. <BR/><BR/>That other leg of the dead parrot party, the old fashioned Simon Hughes liberals will decide the result. Are they ready to embrace the WorkingClassHerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01813797044801835321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-51290923645988452492007-11-20T17:11:00.000+00:002007-11-20T17:11:00.000+00:00A protest rally is due to take place in Oxford thi...A protest rally is due to take place in Oxford this evening - 20 November 2007 - against a debate on free speech scheduled to take place at its prestigious Union next Monday to which David Irving and Nick Griffin have been invited as speakers.<BR/><BR/>Whether next Monday’s debate goes ahead remains to be seen. Apparently, the matter is to be decided after a Union meeting on Friday when members Claire Khawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11557436240917008429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-90939004651605875592007-11-20T16:48:00.000+00:002007-11-20T16:48:00.000+00:00Apparently Norman Baker MP has started on a new to...Apparently Norman Baker MP has started on a new tome proving that it was Clegg who sent the Calamity Clegg dossier to Sopel.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-49220067407574991532007-11-20T07:32:00.000+00:002007-11-20T07:32:00.000+00:00It's worth remembering that David Davis has done a...It's worth remembering that David Davis has done a great job as Shadow Home Secretary after losing to Cameron in 2005, but I can't see Huhne and Clegg working together after this hilarious spat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-73004646718897963502007-11-20T01:35:00.000+00:002007-11-20T01:35:00.000+00:00I have read your blog only occasionally and assume...I have read your blog only occasionally and assumed you were a supporter of the Brownite version of NuLabour.<BR/><BR/>It's fascinating to find you are actually a LibDem. An interesting synthesization of views?<BR/><BR/>I shall read you more often!Ted Foanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04497077127882545545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-1506000949414579392007-11-19T23:01:00.000+00:002007-11-19T23:01:00.000+00:00If they had any sense they would keep Vince Cable ...If they had any sense they would keep Vince Cable who is doing very well. I don't know why everyone is so impressed by Clegg, certainly he is handsome but I have not seen any signs of great potential as a leader. Of the two I find Huhne the more impressive but is doesn't really matter does it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-63998481811225076332007-11-19T20:51:00.000+00:002007-11-19T20:51:00.000+00:00Bower suggests Brown did not stand against Blair b...Bower suggests Brown did not stand against Blair because he was scared he'd lose, as he had done against Robertson in the 1978 by-election. And I think he was wise not to stand as Blair would have walked it; he was <I>so</I> much more charming and acceptable to Middle England than the dour Gordon, not to mention Labour MPs. Maybe with hindsight we might wish he hadn't but he was rightly the skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02632351344359303404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-60988094433516187132007-11-19T14:45:00.000+00:002007-11-19T14:45:00.000+00:00Surely it is the fundamental damage done to the pa...Surely it is the fundamental damage done to the party-at-large that is the only significant consequence of the ‘car crash in public’ that was the verbal punch-up these two leading Lib Dems? <BR/><BR/>I don’t believe I have seen a more appalling display of disunited and disingenuous behaviour on the same public stage from two leading figures of the same mainstream party. <BR/><BR/>I cannot help Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com