tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post5559134114983810984..comments2024-03-29T09:13:55.008+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: A Couple Of Moorhens in the Curate's PaddockLabanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-77434467594615881282008-06-30T13:20:00.000+00:002008-06-30T13:20:00.000+00:00Cameron is using the same technique of dissembly t...Cameron is using the same technique of dissembly that Blair used. Not the most genuine or honest but nevertheless effective. What lies beneath? Well he was the man that wrote Michael Howard's manifesto, so perhaps not as "wet" as some people have predicted. The problem Cameron will have is that his hands are very much tied by the EU. Will he provoke a showdown with the EU leading to the UKs withdrawl? Or will he prostrate himself before Barosso? I suspect he will have no choice but to take the former path, since the Tories are quite happy to stab a leader in the back that is underperforming. Even if he does go along with the EU I suspect that the newly burnished Lisbon treaty or its inevitable heir will make life impossible for him, just as Maastricht and EMU did for Major. <BR/><BR/>Big changes lie ahead, that's for sure. The Tories will have to dance to a Daily Mail tune or quickly find themselves turfed out in favour of god alone knows who.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-10003800969350415852008-06-30T09:29:00.000+00:002008-06-30T09:29:00.000+00:00The thing is that it's all self-referential. Polit...The thing is that it's all self-referential. Politics has become an end not a means. It's Richard Nixon's line about the difference between people who enter politics to do big things, and those who enter it to be big. All that's happening now is that the mass of the people is slowly starting to perceive the true nature of their rulers.DJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00446322024174274621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-33425053469989367602008-06-29T13:10:00.000+00:002008-06-29T13:10:00.000+00:00The truth is the Labour Party have become the part...The truth is the Labour Party have become the party of the graduate middle classes. They may well still have quite a few people who worked they way up from the shop floor but their numbers are dwindling. It is inevitable that at some point the real working classes detects that the Labour Party has nothing in common with themselves except tradition. <BR/><BR/>The same is true of establishment comedians. Once upon a time they were all sourced from working mens clubs. Today they come from an entirely different background.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-39603532038585741922008-06-29T09:04:00.000+00:002008-06-29T09:04:00.000+00:00re Blears - I guess it's all a matter of taste. I'...re Blears - I guess it's all a matter of taste. I'm quite fond of what Iain Dale calls 'the little chipmunk' although not of her politics, naturally.<BR/><BR/>To the Sgt of Her Majesty's Dragoons - can't you sign a sef-denying ordinance to the effect that you'll stop threatening people with death on these comments ? <BR/><BR/>Bums they may be, but they're elected bums. We'll leave the 'physical extirpation' of political opponents to Spanish and Russian 'socialists', Republican murderers and African despots, thank you very much.<BR/><BR/>I sometimes wonder if you're a Guardianista dedicated to closing down the comments or merely driving away those whose first thoughts aren't of ropes and lamp-posts. You're certainly doing a good job.<BR/><BR/>IF we are on the same side - which as above I begin to doubt - could you do me the courtesy of leaving such comments at someone else's blog ?Labanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-57888242930848509042008-06-29T01:23:00.000+00:002008-06-29T01:23:00.000+00:00"I listened to Harman yesterday, it wasn't necessa..."I listened to Harman yesterday, it wasn't necessarily what substantively she was saying (even though her statement was worryingly woolly) it was her wretched suburban nannyish tone, her condescension and sense of automatic superiority that upset me."<BR/><BR/>All of the "Blair Babes" seem to have that effect. Blears is the worst. You really do want to smash her face with a brick when she talks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-23976511354581092402008-06-28T23:20:00.000+00:002008-06-28T23:20:00.000+00:00What really finished off Brown was his betrayal on...What really finished off Brown was his betrayal on the EU constitution, whether the Tories are going to maintain support will depend on if they keep to their word on this issue, which I doubt!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-5478091607348974422008-06-28T20:34:00.000+00:002008-06-28T20:34:00.000+00:00Mere electoral defeat and political oblivion is no...Mere electoral defeat and political oblivion is not enough.<BR/><BR/>These swine deserve extirpation, legal certainly - physical quite possibly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com