Tuesday 22 December 2009

A Debate About What?

I suppose that the whole thing might at least expose once and for all that they are all exactly the same. But you can't stretch that out for nine hours.

Of course, if we must have these things, then no party contesting fewer than fifty per cent plus one of the seats should be on them. What on earth for? But by all means let there be further ones in Scotland and Wales featuring the SNP and Plaid Cymru, though not with whoever purports to be the Labour, Conservative or Lib Dem Leader there, but with Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg. And let the whole country see, as no doubt we would on BBC Parliament if nowhere else, the look on the face of Alex Salmond in particular as Brown nonchalantly mentioned "At the G8", or "While I was chairing the UN Security Council", or whatever.

The problem with having the BNP on would be that no one would talk about anything except the BNP. As for UKIP, its response indicates once and for all that it is now just another Tory pressure group. If Cameron or his successor (but no one else) promised an In/Out referendum (but nothing more, or any issue), then UKIP would disband. UKIP is a non-domiciled party for people who may not be members of, or voters for, the Conservative Party, but for whom it will always be their natural home. And as of today, once and for all, it regards nothing but the EU as worth debating, not even in the run-up to a General Election.

8 comments:

  1. There should be an Independent in it and it should be you. Who else would they ask, Rantzen? They are illegally plugging her campaign in Luton but that would be ridiculous. Say what you like about David Lindsay's policies but at least he has any and isn't afraid to say what they are. What are hers? Happy Christmas.

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  2. He's afraid to stand as a parliamentary candidate, though!

    Frit.

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  3. I may well end up under doctor's orders not to do it, but even that will only stop me if another candidate is all right, and nothing else will at all.

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  4. This isn't worth dying or becoming permanently incapacitated for David, it really isn't. Labour has only shortlisted two local candidates, one is in nappies and the other would do. It's obvious who is going to get it. They wouldn't have shortlisted a proper Catholic without the threat from you and now it looks like she's going to win. Are you going to let in an abortionist Lib Dem instead? Think of the lives of those unborn children. Think of your own life too.

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  5. Rumour has it David was the first person to suggest her. He is still very pally indeed with key local Labour figures very opposed to the AWS. Lanchester Parish Council is the strangest place where party allegiances are concerned, must be a middle class thing.

    Concentrate on the think tank David, a much better use of your great resources intellectual and material.

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