Comments on: Bring on a Lib Dem leadership battle http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/15/bring-on-a-lib-dem-leadership-battle/ Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wokingham Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:30:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sally C http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/15/bring-on-a-lib-dem-leadership-battle/#comment-8287 Sally C Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:10:53 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/15/bring-on-a-lib-dem-leadership-battle/#comment-8287 I found your " Nick Clegg" theory interesting. I know some in the Party are nervous about any attempt to copy Cameron but I can hear the reporters now, saying one has copied our policies and the other our man. The Murdoch press need someone who has a real chance before they will even bother to look. If he loses, do you think he will try to jump ship or do you think he really does believe in an open door Britain? Reply: I doubt if he really believes in it. He might jump ship if the new Captain of HMS Lib Dem takes it further onto the rocks. I found your ” Nick Clegg” theory interesting. I know some in the Party are nervous about any attempt to copy Cameron but I can hear the reporters now, saying one has copied our policies and the other our man. The Murdoch press need someone who has a real chance before they will even bother to look.
If he loses, do you think he will try to jump ship or do you think he really does believe in an open door Britain?

Reply: I doubt if he really believes in it. He might jump ship if the new Captain of HMS Lib Dem takes it further onto the rocks.

]]> By: olly kendall http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/15/bring-on-a-lib-dem-leadership-battle/#comment-8277 olly kendall Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:38:44 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/15/bring-on-a-lib-dem-leadership-battle/#comment-8277 "I am not going to waste my time sending good quality political advice to Menzies and his challengers." Go on. They need something to cheer them up. “I am not going to waste my time sending good quality political advice to Menzies and his challengers.”

Go on. They need something to cheer them up.

]]> By: Neil Craig http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/15/bring-on-a-lib-dem-leadership-battle/#comment-8273 Neil Craig Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:19:25 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/15/bring-on-a-lib-dem-leadership-battle/#comment-8273 Last time I was quite impressed with Chris Huhne who, as a Euro-MP was said to have spent his time putting sunset clauses into Euro legislation which seemed to me the most useful thing he could do. I usually also assume competence in people who make themselves into millionaires. However as environmental spokesman he has stood for all the lunacies which have made the LudDims what they are today. Anybody who says that we can rely for 100% of our electricity on intermittent windmills, batteries (batteries are a storage medium & not a very efficient one, rather than a source) & "sources which haven't been discovered yet" is unfit to have a role in government. I could say the same for Zac Goldsmith except that he has never had to display competence. Last time I was quite impressed with Chris Huhne who, as a Euro-MP was said to have spent his time putting sunset clauses into Euro legislation which seemed to me the most useful thing he could do. I usually also assume competence in people who make themselves into millionaires.

However as environmental spokesman he has stood for all the lunacies which have made the LudDims what they are today. Anybody who says that we can rely for 100% of our electricity on intermittent windmills, batteries (batteries are a storage medium & not a very efficient one, rather than a source) & “sources which haven’t been discovered yet” is unfit to have a role in government.

I could say the same for Zac Goldsmith except that he has never had to display competence.

]]> By: Mike Power http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/15/bring-on-a-lib-dem-leadership-battle/#comment-8264 Mike Power Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:23:54 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/10/15/bring-on-a-lib-dem-leadership-battle/#comment-8264 A Tory gloats at the thought of a Lib-Dem leadership battle! Hague, IDS, Howard and (almost - but saved at the last moment by the realization that Brown is useless) Cameron. Stones and conservatories anyone? A Tory gloats at the thought of a Lib-Dem leadership battle!

Hague, IDS, Howard and (almost - but saved at the last moment by the realization that Brown is useless) Cameron. Stones and conservatories anyone?

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