Posts by Robert Fox
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My guess is their just playing the Bad cop vs even worse cop game. Bolton may be bit pissed that his boss didn't fight hard enough to keep him at the UN but I doubt if he's as far removed from Bush's ear as we are lead to believe.
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Simon
Only last week Cheney was rattling his sabre in the direction of Iran from an aircraft carrier in the Gulf and he's hardly distanced from the WH is he? And Bolton would still be at the UN if it wasn't for the Dems election success last year. Bush's surge strategy was the least popular option amongst republicans but he was still influenced by the neocon cabal when he decided to go for it. In my view its not pushing the Barrow to report what key neocons are saying though it is however when your columnists and editorials pushing the same message. Your right it is V unsettling stuff though. -
Sorry I really need to learn how to spell , third time lucky "Interference"
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Ironically most right leaning Christian libertarians oppose state interferance into peoples lives but accept attampts by their Church interfearance in people's lives.
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Why isnt he just replaced by the next one on the list. Surely his place in parliment rests soley on the basis of UF's list entitlement? I'm reasonably new to MMP so somebody please explain.
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Craig, The Telegraph has and always will be the prefered broadsheet of the British establishment. Its key demographic reside in the true blue shires and its editorial content is stubbornly conservative and in tone as you would expect. Having said that its hard news content is second to none and I regulary read it for this reason alone. As a liberally minded individual I usually steer away from anything written by reactionaries like Simon Heffer and Boris Johnston as I would a novel written by Dame Barbara Cartland. On the other hand the excellent Craig Brown has been writing Spoof diaries for years in Private Eye and always has me in stiches. My point is that unlike here the British newspapers all have their niche audiences and eyebrows are raised when the editorial content starts to steer away from its usual ideological angle. The left leaning papers have started to fall out of love with labour in the same way that the tory press did with the conservatives in the mid 90's. Not wanting to ailienate theri readers editors can sniff the winds of change and point their products in the appropriate direction.
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Remeber its still fpp and with only a 60 odd seat majority it would only take a reasonably small swing in some key marginals to tip the balance. The lib dems arent particularly popular right now either.On the positive side, if the tories did get in they'd have a rather small and maybe unworkable majority though I reckon, and you can never underesimate their ability to do themselves over if europe becomes a big issue again.
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Indeed Brown stepped assideto give Blair a free run at the leadership after the famous Granita accord ironed out at Blairs favourite Islington resteraunt. Its been a bone of contention and a source of much publicised friction between them ever since as Brown understood that Blair had agreed to hand over the reigns long before now.
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I was also a witness to Thatcher's handbagging by Howe (the poodle that roared) and her subsequent demise in the following weeks will always have a special place in my heart. It was cricket metaphor about being sent to the wicket with a a bat broken by your captin that did the trick if I recall. But I also remember the rapid ascent of Major and the feeling of beeng cheated by the fact the new prime minister wasn't being elected through a popular plebisite. Major just squeekd in at the next GE but was never able to command the respect that a large majority in the British parliment affords it PMs. I sincerely hope that the same fate does not befall Brown because he has far more to offer the nation than Blair was able to deliver. Camerons tories are within inches of winning next time so its going to need some serious populism from the Scot in the next year or so to stop the rot. The other big issue for brown will be the obvious english nationalist attacks against a Scottish PM in post devolution Britain.
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Until Wishart is able to stand his allegations up they should be totally ignored. Unfortunately as he well knows, the public desire for smutty gossip means he can drop these unsubstantiated little filth bombs and watch the aftershocks while cackling madly at the moon.