Nov 22 2009
Trouble at the top of government often comes from the EU
Today’s lead story in the Sunday Times shows Labour splits comes form the EU. The wish to put Mr Miliband into the EU job caused others to jostle for promotion. His refusal to move has caused trouble around the reshuffle. Lord Mandelson is in a strong position. Will he get what he wants? How will the others react?
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
Really! unlike you John, never a splitter, always supportive of your party leader, were’nt you?
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alan jutson Reply:
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Wrong assuming you are talking about John Major.
He said put up or shut up, so he was big enough, and honest enough, to put up. Shame many are not so honest.
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Gordon Brown can rearrange the deckchairs how he likes because when the ship hits the iceberg – aka 6 May 2010 – it is going to sink!
Unfortunately, it does seem that the replacement is not going to be much different when one considers the tacit acceptance of quangos, advisory bodies etc that the next captain shows.
The latest poll may be a ‘rogue’ but one does have to question how much David Cameron’s EU policy has had an effect in the poll results.
Apologies to hark back to the EU but that is the root cause of all our problems and from that stems the ‘institutionalisation’ of our politics in this country.
Where is the true Conservative party of old? Do enlighten us John, please.
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I’ll see your Mandelson and raise you a Harman. Buy a call option on Milliband for PM. I will try and get you a price for CDS, (Cabinet Duffers Swap). Unfortunately, the rest of the Cabinet lacks investment grade rating. Triple B at best.
Sorry, must rush, got to delete a lot of e-mails in my climate change folder. I have spent all night trying to get OpenOffice 3 to search for the word “warming” and replace it with “cooling”, before I get hacked. Anybody want to buy a bucket load of carbon offset certificates, going cheap; as are my wind turbine shares.
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Mandelson must be wishing he’d stayed as EU commissioner and then it may well have been he and not his replacement who would be strutting the world stage as EU foreign minister. That is the price you pay for helping out a Jonah such as Brown.
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From the outside, the trouble appears to be this: Labour pretends to care about the vulnerable etc etc etc.
Actually, it is just a lot of greedy people pushing their way to the trough where they suck on power and, yes, money.
We (if I may speak for the electorate!!!) have noticed this……
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