tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post4783946409344328382..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: The Eric Pickles InterviewIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-89537836267257284912010-07-24T16:50:59.947+01:002010-07-24T16:50:59.947+01:00"a professional journalist"?
Gosh, that..."a professional journalist"?<br /><br />Gosh, that's not what you used to call me, is it Iain?<br />http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2007/10/good-day-to-be-conservative.html#c6023747474611200030<br /><br />I only ask because of this - <br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/dec/31/johnsweeney.theobserver<br /><br />Y'see, when I was at that rather inconsequential little paper up in Essex (at least, you may think it inconsequential) Eric was always very, very reluctant to fully answer any questions put to him by my colleagues who covered Brentwood. <br /><br />Perhaps you - a mere mortal though you may be - may be able to illicit a better response the next time you and Eric sit down in the comfy chairs. <br /><br />Ah, but it's all water under the bridge, no? Let's not pick over old issues and I'm sure all your forthcoming interviews will solely be on current matters rather than anything buried in a closet or pulpit...Carl Evehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930750600999601721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-80674328151904292592010-07-24T09:41:52.367+01:002010-07-24T09:41:52.367+01:00Thank God for a whiff of sanity in the corridors.....Thank God for a whiff of sanity in the corridors...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16514535396710612260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-62450446987094118472010-07-24T09:21:17.588+01:002010-07-24T09:21:17.588+01:00Gosh, how lovely Iain - "it concerned current...Gosh, how lovely Iain - "it concerned current issues, not those of a decade or so ago" - thank goodness! No need for any tough questions then, for example, about why the Tories are serving up an easy ride to every Con-voting village nimby in the country to block much-needed social housing in the countryside. All under a thin-veil of pseuodo-local democracy that fools nobody.<br /><br />It would have been too awful for you to have raised such tricky and not-at-all current issues with that nice Mr Pickles. Instead you quite rightly focused on some awfully nice things with him. What courage!DespairingLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02903904463236135611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-35378695423800915072010-07-24T01:52:32.119+01:002010-07-24T01:52:32.119+01:00Congratulations on your scoop. I doubt we've ...Congratulations on your scoop. I doubt we've heard the last of his admission that Ashcroft bought the election.Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01542633492362670045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-72750033816394744662010-07-24T00:09:56.110+01:002010-07-24T00:09:56.110+01:00I am sure that you as a professional journalist co...I am sure that you as a professional journalist could have done a far better job than a mere mortal like me, Carl.<br /><br />I am sure if I had interviewed him for a further hour or two I might have got around to that, but in case you hadn't noticed it concerned current issues, not those of a decade or so ago.Iain Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-90059613203653854362010-07-23T23:42:00.569+01:002010-07-23T23:42:00.569+01:00No questions about the interesting religious types...No questions about the interesting religious types who steamed into the Brentwood Conservative group then, which Eric didn't concern himself with...?Carl Evehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930750600999601721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-22888347554911758042010-07-23T20:55:32.268+01:002010-07-23T20:55:32.268+01:00Pickles On Lord Ashcroft: "... ultimately we&...Pickles On Lord Ashcroft: "... ultimately we're here because of what he did."<br /><br />So there we have it. Where would you be without all that tax-free cash?<br /><br />At least you didn't win on anything like policy, since it gets clearer by the day that we had no idea of half the things you are now doing, with supine, ignorant LibDem passive support.DespairingLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02903904463236135611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-57388495371586282442010-07-23T20:54:31.122+01:002010-07-23T20:54:31.122+01:00Good interview. I like the cigar-chomping commie -...Good interview. I like the cigar-chomping commie - coming from an old Trot. Guess he just doesn't like smoking.Claire Frenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12158322879466273431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-49643881795422704152010-07-23T17:31:26.290+01:002010-07-23T17:31:26.290+01:00Great interview, thanks.
He comes across very wel...Great interview, thanks.<br /><br />He comes across very well.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10290536901916009949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-29637153141427006922010-07-23T16:10:34.962+01:002010-07-23T16:10:34.962+01:00That was a great interview.
And then it got to ...That was a great interview. <br /><br />And then it got to the last line and I actually laughed so hard I spat my tea out onto the computer.Stephen Wigmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15604582974059809054noreply@blogger.com