Sunday, February 05, 2006

Lord Rennard's handbag & Michael Portillo's "Affair"

A few amusing titbits in the News of the World today, but not the promised sex scandal. Sorry, but I don't count a lesbian romp by Dannii Minogue as a great surprise...

QUOTES OF THE WEEK: Ian Hyland: "After Al-Jazeere started their new Urdu service, Cilla called to book a shampoo and set."

Michael Howard On David Cameron's efforts to sign up LibDem defectors. "I wouldn't bend over backwards to get them on our side." Conjures up an image...

From the Blackadder column: "With Brokeback Mountain moments rife in the LibDems, is this really the right time for chief exec Lord Rennard (pic left) to start carrying a handbag? The party's election guru - a bit like Vanessa Feltz's slimming guru - swings a little manbag from his wrist as he flits round Westminster. "He's not a dainty-looking man and he doesn't really carry it off." said one parliamentarian. "Think of a groilla with a purse and you're there." Ouch!

Also, a very good article in The Indy by John Rentoul on David Cameron. I don't agree with all of it but it's worth a read. Click HERE. Andrew Rawnsley in The Observer looks at how Tebbit & Widdecombe have fallen into a Cameron trap HERE.

A very strange story in the Mail on Sunday about Michael Portillo having an affair with "socialite" whose husband is less than amused. He says: "I'll get that bloody bastard Portillo." This is the second time Portillo has been in the tabloids in the last few months.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Assuming the MOS story is true, I would suppose that since he was cuaght just a few months ago, he would have waited a couple of months before starting to cheat on his wife again :roll:

Anonymous said...

Please, don't tell that Portillo's socialite is Kimberly Quinn...oh, no she couldn't be her: her husband wouldn't have that reaction! :wink:

Iain Dale said...

perish the thought