tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post8761962758191961630..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Cameron on NewsnightIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-22090285987574097542007-09-03T00:40:00.000+01:002007-09-03T00:40:00.000+01:00All those slagging off Steph, should read this: ht...All those slagging off Steph, should read this: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article2368572.ece<BR/><BR/>Entirely sensible argument.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-78000423927666955272007-09-02T01:11:00.000+01:002007-09-02T01:11:00.000+01:00"As for the b***h in the red dress,... what man c..."As for the b***h in the red dress,... what man could possibly live with an acid-drop like that ?"<BR/><BR/>If she agreed to send the kid into care, I'd jump at the chance. Steph's sex on legs...economists do it with Slutsky matrices..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-41072252689900396442007-09-01T13:04:00.000+01:002007-09-01T13:04:00.000+01:00It was a superb performance.Two extremely nasty so...It was a superb performance.<BR/><BR/>Two extremely nasty socialists lined up to ask the old class-orientated questions Margaret used to get asked (and which she swatted with derision).<BR/><BR/>As for the b***h in the red dress, I can see why she's a single mother, what man could possibly live with an acid-drop like that ?<BR/><BR/>Did Blair ever get a grilling like this ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-65268213275727732862007-08-31T12:17:00.000+01:002007-08-31T12:17:00.000+01:00So this constituted a "stormer of a performance".H...So this constituted a "stormer of a performance".<BR/><BR/>Hmmm...if you say so...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-45359941087209291272007-08-31T09:55:00.000+01:002007-08-31T09:55:00.000+01:00Newmania, Cameron is a LOT more privileged than Bl...Newmania, Cameron is a LOT more privileged than Blair, whom it is interesting to see that you are defending.<BR/><BR/>Far from being 40 years out of date, (tax-paying) middle and working class resentment against the (largely tax-exempt) super-rich is the coming force in British politics. It might well be the big issue by the time of the nerxt Election, and it certainly will be by the time of the one after that.<BR/><BR/>The Bullingdon Club is a criminal conspiracy, and would be prosecuted as such in any other class (including the upper middle class), or even at almost all other universities. It exists specifically to commit criminal damage and even assault. Members of such an organisation are unfit for public office.<BR/><BR/>The strange alliance between the neocons and the Bush Dynasty (even posher than Cameron) actively cultivated Hispanics even though it involved turning a blind eye to practically limitless immigration (supported by neocons anyway, because unbridled capitalism cannot function without it and because it destroys the traditional working class), and even though it effectivley involved declaring much of the US bilingual in English and Spanish (if not monolingually Spnaish-speaking, and again to the significant detriment of the traditional working class). Quite where that cultivation ended up has been all over the news this week.<BR/><BR/>But the Cameroons want to do the same with the Asians. Tory loudpspeakers during the Ealing Southall byelection announced in several Asian languages that Muslim, Hindu and Sikh festivals would be made public holidays by the Tories. And, lo and behold, they now intend to allow "local communities" to set three additional public holidays.<BR/><BR/>That certainly won't mean local councils, which the Cameroons loathe even more than do national politicians generally (and that is quite a feat), not least because so amny are now run by exactly the sort of Tories against whom they define themselves, but who are manifestly the only Tories capable of winning elections in today's Britain. Rather, it will mean self-appointed "community leaders" operating political machines.<BR/><BR/>And where will this stop, in the age of "the new localism"? So long as they keep geeting the vote out for the organised criminals of the Buller, these "community leaders" will be able to set up and run localised Caliphate, Hindutva or Khalistan to their hearts' content (not least at various forms of public expense), entirely regradless of the fact that there is no Muslim, Hindu or Sikh majority anywhere in Britain (although there might well be, if enough of them move to these ghettoes, not necessarily from within Britain), nor would even most British Muslims, British Hindus or British Sikhs wish to live in any such environment.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-37576867905818465332007-08-31T00:46:00.000+01:002007-08-31T00:46:00.000+01:00Oh come on! The interviewers were poor, but there ...Oh come on! The interviewers were poor, but there are some pretty rosey-tinted lenses being worn on here when it comes to Cameron's performance. It was largely the usual evasive, woolly stuff. Delivered calmly certainly but with barely a sausage of actual meaty content. <BR/><BR/>I don't know, the guy stops acting like an incompetent Blair-worshipping buffoon for five seconds and now he's the new True Blue messiah. As if.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-47992497322511190322007-08-31T00:14:00.000+01:002007-08-31T00:14:00.000+01:00David your Bullingdon boy nonsense is an appeall t...David your Bullingdon boy nonsense is an appeall to class envy some forty years out of date . David Cameron is relatively priveliged yes . No more than Tony Blair and we do not believe his good fortune makes ours worse as you do. Honestly move along ..move along .<BR/>He is English by the way as i have preeviously explained . burt more to the point <BR/><BR/>"Nor of the Tories' plan to hand over control over great swathes of life in designated ghettoes to wholly self-appointed local Muslim, Hindu and Sikh leaders in return for getting out the vote"<BR/><BR/>What are youi talking about evidence please !Newmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-17302894541047696432007-08-30T22:52:00.000+01:002007-08-30T22:52:00.000+01:00The interview reminded me of some soviet style gri...The interview reminded me of some soviet style grilling - blind assumptions pulsed through the veins of the interviewers.<BR/><BR/>"Do you think that not taxing the rich is penalising the poor?" <BR/><BR/>"Do you think it is right that people are successful when some people fail?"<BR/><BR/>"How many small babies have you killed by not having a 90% tax threshold at £100K?"<BR/><BR/>And so it went on, and on ... the poor presenters swimming in a sea of social justice - all being paid for by yours truely, whilst billions and billions of pounds in Mr Brown's unregulated credit derivatives unwind around them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-34545111424834734382007-08-30T18:04:00.000+01:002007-08-30T18:04:00.000+01:00I have never believed opinion polls. They are, in ...<I>I have never believed opinion polls. They are, in my view, biased and politically driven!Isn't You Gov poll run by the husband of a Labour Minister? Surely that is a conflict! <BR/><BR/>I have never, and none of my family or friends have ever, been asked to participate in any opinion poll! It is a question I ask of people and the answer is always NO! </I><BR/><BR/>Well with YouGov specifically they only use a panel of volunteers, you volunteer by setting up an account on their website. So you can get involved in you want. Of course, they have many more younger, internet savvy people (for instance) on their panel compared to the population at large, but then they correct for that by not sending them as many surveys.<BR/><BR/>Of course, that doesn't change the fact that surveys are indeed biased and politically driven. But that's not because of the company doing the polling, it's because of the people who commission the survey and the way they word their question.<BR/><BR/>Generally you'll find that the actual question that has been asked either isn't the same as the headline given, or has only been asked after a series of other questions designed to plant a specific point in people's minds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-43187545588384582012007-08-30T17:15:00.000+01:002007-08-30T17:15:00.000+01:00So,David Lindsay - how did you like the programme?...So,David Lindsay - how did you like the programme?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-36576377147123210082007-08-30T16:55:00.000+01:002007-08-30T16:55:00.000+01:00To no one's surprise (least of all mine, although ...To no one's surprise (least of all mine, although I have had emails from BBC staff...), not one of the issues that I listed on my blog was mentioned much, if at all, during Newsnight's fawning "interview" with the BBC's preferred candidate for Prime Minister.<BR/><BR/>Indeed, almost nothing was. It was like being back in the early days of Tony Blair.<BR/><BR/>That this 50-minute Party Political Broadcast was ever made is perfectly scandalous. But the Beeb's man has been shown over this summer to be, as if anyone hadn't already known him to be, a vacuous, lightweight figure, and one, moreover, without a conservative bone in his body.<BR/><BR/>So Auntie dutifully came to what she clearly thought was the rescue of her new favourite nephew.<BR/><BR/>Of course, because she only knows Eurofederalists, she doubtless thought that she was doing him a favour by allowing him to demonstrate (not that it is in any way news) just how rabid a Eurofederalist he is.<BR/><BR/>But there was no mention of Cameron's membership of a criminal conspiracy, complete with membership lists, officers, a uniform, the lot, specifically for the purpose of smashing up pubs, not to mention of assaulting publicans and their staff.<BR/><BR/>Nor of the Tories' plan to hand over control over great swathes of life in designated ghettoes to wholly self-appointed local Muslim, Hindu and Sikh leaders in return for getting out the vote for the Bullingdon Boys.<BR/><BR/>Nor of the fact that the oppression of the black and white English-speaking working class that this will entail is already being experienced in Wales, and is being seriously mooted both in Northern Ireland and in the North of Scotland.<BR/><BR/>Nor of whether or not Cameron, with his Scots background and his house on the Isle of Jura, would use the power of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to enact legislation in all policy areas applicable in all parts of this Kingdom.<BR/><BR/>Nor of just how few members the Conservative Party (like the others) now has, and just how old most of them now are (again, like the others).<BR/><BR/>Nor of how many people are now determined not to vote.<BR/><BR/>Nor of the fact that the specific Tories who have done well in Local Elections are as un-Cameroon as anyone could possibly be, these being manifestly the sort of Tories for whom people will vote if they are ever going to vote Tory at all.<BR/><BR/>Among many, many, many other things...David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-26089696502407656452007-08-30T15:30:00.000+01:002007-08-30T15:30:00.000+01:00I won't be watching it because Cameron is a flim-f...I won't be watching it because Cameron is a flim-flam man, and an ignorant one at that.<BR/><BR/>He honest-to-God seems to think voters give a monkey crap about so-called pretend "green issues" and "saving the planet through extra taxes". I hate the man.<BR/><BR/>Also, if we are talking about Pakistani immigrants, how can such talk be racist as the Pakistanis are Indo-Aryan. Almost the same race as the Iranians (Iranian is their word for Aryan), who are the same race as us. And islam is not a race. And David Cameron is poncy copy of tony blair but without the sibilance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-16700204947666896372007-08-30T13:48:00.000+01:002007-08-30T13:48:00.000+01:00Anonymous said..."Brown was grilled by four people...Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/>"Brown was grilled by four people too remember." <BR/><BR/>Blimey "grilled" indeed.. I bet you believe the question setting in eggheads is all fair and above board as well.Mulliganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12445624135697167219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-24462758229394362342007-08-30T13:02:00.000+01:002007-08-30T13:02:00.000+01:00Browns headline interview was a tummy tickle from ...Browns headline interview was a tummy tickle from Scottish sociolaist Andrew MarrNewmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-46257632930945520192007-08-30T12:35:00.000+01:002007-08-30T12:35:00.000+01:00Brown was grilled by four people too remember.Brown was grilled by four people too remember.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-92023500289250506652007-08-30T12:22:00.000+01:002007-08-30T12:22:00.000+01:00Cameron should consider using the slogan24 HOURS T...Cameron should consider using the slogan<BR/><BR/>24 HOURS TO SAVE ENGLAND!<BR/><BR/>for the election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-90609092067902102132007-08-30T12:21:00.000+01:002007-08-30T12:21:00.000+01:00What about 45mins. face to face live with just Cri...What about 45mins. face to face live with just Crick?<BR/>For that one you could sell tickets!<BR/>Has anyonone any idea about how much of an edit was carried out?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-51946603050632609972007-08-30T12:16:00.000+01:002007-08-30T12:16:00.000+01:00Comfy Socks said:-9.13 that was me,chuffed you rea...Comfy Socks said:-<BR/>9.13 that was me,chuffed you read it.Ten years in power and we are rattled,don't be silly.<BR/>=======<BR/><BR/>Who said In power but not in control? Sums this lot up!strapworldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18228784526399929300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-12239393246011742432007-08-30T11:58:00.000+01:002007-08-30T11:58:00.000+01:00Would DC commit to a referendum on the EU reconsti...Would DC commit to a referendum on the EU reconstituted consititution?<BR/><BR/>Also, would he scrap IHT, stamp duty, TV licences, council tax and make people work (sweeping the roads if necessary) while drawing their Jobseekers allowance.<BR/><BR/>I like the idea of a commitment to marriage, but I think he will get a lot of flak from the left about it using single parents as ammo. He will need to prepare well for this argument.<BR/><BR/>I am almost of the opinion that the Tories would be better off losing the next election and leaving McCavity to sort out his own mess, but the thought of another five year of this mob is just unbearable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-29034982043666503852007-08-30T11:49:00.000+01:002007-08-30T11:49:00.000+01:00I only caught a bit of the interview but was compl...I only caught a bit of the interview but was completely distracted by the terrible lighting which made DC's nose cast a weird shadow over his face, so in parts it looked like he had a Hitler 'tash.... more evidence of BBC bias perhaps??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-90172226671521561642007-08-30T11:43:00.000+01:002007-08-30T11:43:00.000+01:00Newmania...What would this blog be without Newmani...Newmania...<BR/><BR/>What would this blog be without Newmania.<BR/><BR/>Answer.. interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-68722981362406320942007-08-30T11:40:00.001+01:002007-08-30T11:40:00.001+01:00One thing that struck me was the lighting. Who put...One thing that struck me was the lighting. <BR/><BR/>Who put a down light on Cameron so that the shadow of his nose formed a Hitler moustache on his top lip and made his eyes look sunken? The Newsnight four were not lit like that. <BR/><BR/>Did Newsnight do it on purpose? Didn’t Cameron’s minders notice?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-49303169792895913272007-08-30T11:40:00.000+01:002007-08-30T11:40:00.000+01:00Oh Devil`s Kitchen ...in the light of the average ...Oh Devil`s Kitchen ...in the light of the average age of UKIP members being over 50 do you not feel your language is somewhat out of step with the subject matter.<BR/><BR/>Annabelle Fuller has recently been making much play of the geriatric quality of the Ukipper brigade including promising that mushy food for the toothless will be laid on at the Troxy Conference Centre for their okey kokey. Most members , she says are " Grade Two Listed". Jars that are easy to open ...NICE BIG WRITING...and a PA system that repeats itself automatically ...eh ? ...eh?<BR/><BR/><BR/>Very edgey I must sayNewmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-59716571389727211562007-08-30T11:30:00.000+01:002007-08-30T11:30:00.000+01:00I gather Scottish socialist Andrew Marr is doing a...I gather Scottish socialist Andrew Marr is doing a series for radio 4 abotu the soul of the English...that should be really really good. Jeremy Paxman hurriedly repositioning himself as a Royalist and anti BBC complainer.<BR/><BR/>Why isn`t Iain Dale doing a history of the English not a friend of Polly Toynbee and sprig of the Scots aristocracy..what could he possibly have to addNewmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-7351461209372465572007-08-30T11:17:00.000+01:002007-08-30T11:17:00.000+01:00Or why doesn't Cameron just challenge Brown to a f...<I>Or why doesn't Cameron just challenge Brown to a few debates outside of the election period in the name of promoting open democracy and public participation. That would get him on the back foot.</I><BR/><BR/>He has done but there is a snowball`s chance in hell of Brown getting caught in the open having to think on his feet. He would have to admit he is lying in Europe , he has lied on the Academy prgramme ( more things called academies that are not academies), obviously he lied on tax and his own flag ship , tax credits has been catastrophically delivered..( although it is not an entirely bad idea) <BR/><BR/>One lie after another ..cool to the US but lets themn set up in Yorkshire , wearing the Union Jack having been instrumental in desmantling the Union.<BR/>He is going to try the same trick by encouraging Holyrood to use existing powers so as to widen its influence without being seen to con the English , again. More lies <BR/>He cannot stand a candle let alone a searchlight . Will somone explain to me what sort of mass amnesia it was that ever created the Brown bounce ? Thanks god its is now over which unlike Iain I think is more liely to panic Brown into a quick election than his evaporated 10% lead. He was never going to act from boldness only fear <BR/><BR/>Its always the same with him Hiding , creeping around in the dark changing the figures. Asking him to sit in open debate with David Cameron is like asking bacteria to go swimming with Domestos..<BR/><BR/>He`s frightened now he sees it all slipping away . Could be Autumn, could well beNewmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.com