Ding-Dong-Ming
Ming's off. It's been coming, of course, the polls dropping and the spectre of fighting the Tories for the next two years with the old boy up front has scared the willies out of, well, pretty much everyone in the party, with the inevitable result that he's been invited to adjourn to his office with a bottle of mineral water and a pearl-handled organic muesli bar. It's sad, in a way, he's a good bloke with a lot more integrity than the average politician (who would you prefer to be stuck on a desert island with? Him or Hazel Blears? Not a hard question, is it?) but probably inevitable. The best replacement for a drunk Charlie Kennedy was always a sober Charlie Kennedy, after all.
The interesting thing is what was left unsaid after the last leadership election - it was clear then that a new generation of rather uppity, ambitious Lib Dem (Clegg, Huhne) was itching to move upstairs, but didn't yet have the profile or support. It was easier at the time to let Ming take the flak for the post-Charlie hangover and make a move later. Expect to see them.
The unsaid part of this is that a lot of the Young Turks were behind the Orange Book, a rather un-liberal collection of essays extolling the old-fashioned Adam Hitler Smith Institute ideas that are as discredited and out of date as the Bay City Rollers, or would be if anyone in this country ever looked at the results of policy. There could, therefore, be a Lurch to the Right, which wouldn't necessarily be a great idea given the current state of the UK political landscape (basically consisting of the Stupid Party, First and Second Elevens (h/t Chris Dillow). Apart from anything else, who the hell would I vote for?
"...a lot of the Young Turks
"...a lot of the Young Turks w...."
The mess that the Young Turks of the industrial world and governmental word are making is extremely frightening. When I was a young chap all the company directors, bank managers and politicians were on the verge of retirement and had "come up" by experience. These days it is all "experimental" management and politics with outside "experts" (who are just as inexperienced) being brought in to "advise".
The only difference between this years Oxbridge output and Ming is "experience", and there is only one way to get that. (In actuality their is a big difference...Ming is fairly numerate and literate.)
I do not hold any brief for Ming or any other politician or party...they are basically all the same, differing in just the matter of experience of how to get the best place at the trough.
We need Hercules to do his trick with the stable.
"...a lot of the Young Turks
"...a lot of the Young Turks w...."
The mess that the Young Turks of the industrial world and governmental word are making is extremely frightening. When I was a young chap all the company directors, bank managers and politicians were on the verge of retirement and had "come up" by experience. These days it is all "experimental" management and politics with outside "experts" (who are just as inexperienced) being brought in to "advise".
The only difference between this years Oxbridge output and Ming is "experience", and there is only one way to get that. (In actuality their is a big difference...Ming is fairly numerate and literate.)
I do not hold any brief for Ming or any other politician or party...they are basically all the same, differing in just the matter of experience of how to get the best place at the trough.
We need Hercules to do his trick with the stable.
So, it's time to turn the
So, it's time to turn the milking stool upside down again, and wait to see who sits down.
Ming was about as exciting as watching grass grow in winter. He lived up to his profession, pretty useless.
He was also not much into defending Democracy.
So I seem to stutter.
So I seem to stutter.
Nick Clegg is about as much
Nick Clegg is about as much a Liberal as his dopple-ganger Alistair Campbell. He's only in the party because his naked ambition is better served there. Watch the party vote for him and then watch how he rebrands the party as 'New' Liberal and then marches off to the political centre ground.
It seems the Liberals are just a bit too desperate for parliamentary power, they really are awful to their elected leaders when the poll numbers are low. This is just going to turn the public more off of them in my view. And that Simon Hughs, what a two-faced backstabber, or is it bum-stabber? (Fnar Fnar).
".....d that Simon Hughs,
".....d that Simon Hughs, what a two-faced backstabber, or is it bum-stabber? (Fnar Fnar)."
I thought that was what Liberalism was traditionally about!
Blears or Ming? A tough
Blears or Ming? A tough choice... Q:who would you prefer to be stuck on a desert island with? Him or Hazel Blears?
There's more meat on Blears, I reckon: she'd last longer if I could preserve the body < joke >
Oh, how hilarious you all
Oh, how hilarious you all are - kicking a man when he`s down is par for the course, but hey, let`s get in a homophobic jibe or two, yeah, just the thing. And after going `fnar fnar` you forgot to add, `yeah, see you behind the bike shed, snigger snigger, honk snort`.
Saddoes.
Yes it's tough going being
Yes it's tough going being normal these days.
Further to the above, its
Further to the above, its time to draft Charlie K! See the petition at -
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/kennedystheman/index.html
that charlsh kenney fella
that charlsh kenney fella hic, he's brilliant. i'm gonna vote for im on dat web-hic-site he's the besht leader they've ever ever hic had. he's my besht mate he is. i love him, nah listen, i really love him. i wan im back in sharge. hic.
Ahh, yer a scream, laddie.
Ahh, yer a scream, laddie. Anyway, after consideration seems that the petition has been pulled. The chances of CK running are vanishingly small, given that too many bridges were burnt by his last runin with the sauce.
Which means its Huhne or Clegg. Gawd.
Nobody doing a thread about
Nobody doing a thread about Gormless Gordo's codswallop in Portugal re: the EU Treaty.
Has any one ever asked Gordo how it is possible to have opt outs of a document that is supposed to protect peoples rights?
This immediately means that some people are less equal than others, and others are more equal than the norm, so it immediately defeats itself
I wish Gordo would face me re: that piece of crap. He could bring his mate Barroso along as well.
Brown well knows the whole Treaty is nothing but bollocks, exactly like its predecessor the Amsterdam Treaty, which was also supposed to protect the individual against state oppression. It appears that the EU expects individual regimes within the EU to admit their own wrongdoing, which is like asking every criminal to admit their guilt.
I wonder how many law abiding people know that they have less rights than the lowest form of criminal life within the Fascist EU. This is the reason why they make a big thing of criminals having to have their Human Rights respected, it makes ordinary folk think they also have the same rights.
The EU's Smash and Conquer
The EU's Smash and Conquer Britain Project
http://thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk/blog/_archives/2007/10/3/3269034.html
http://bfbwwiii.blogspot.com/2007/10/frankfurt-subversion.html
http://thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk/blog
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3664960863576873594&hl=en-GB
The curse of Political Correctness
http://www.capc.co.uk/
http://www.ukip.org/ukip/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=186&Itemid=68
http://www.capc.co.uk/Petition%20Form.pdf
http://thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk/blog/_archives/2007/10/3/3269034.html
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http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
http://britanniaradio.co.uk/?q=node/2
http://thewestminsternews.co.uk/
http://www.eutruth.org.uk
Where are the Bilderbergers
Where are the Bilderbergers ? They must be in this mess up to their teste.