Here's the second installment. Full profiles can be read on the Telegraph site HERE. You can also leave your comments on the list on the Telegraph site HERE. Some of the comments are er, rather interesting to say the least.
51 Nick Bourne AM, Leader of the Opposition, National Assembly for Wales
52 Samantha Cameron, Wife of the Leader of the Opposition
53 Eric Pickles MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government
54 Lord Tebbit, Former Conservative Party Chairman
55 Michael Hintze, Conservative Party Donor
56 Francis Maude MP, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office
57 Matthew Elliott, Director, Taxpayers' Alliance
58 Don Porter, Chairman, National Conservative Convention
59 Lord Norton of Louth, Conservative Peer
60 John Redwood MP, Conservative MP
61 Lord Kalms, Conservative Party Donor
62 Alan Duncan MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Business
63 Andrew Haldenby, Director, Reform
64 Shireen Ritchie, Chairman, Conservative Party Candidates Committee
65 Roger Scruton, Philosopher
66 David Laws MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesman on Work & Pensions
67 Neil O'Brien, Director, Open Europe
68 Madsen Pirie, Director, Adam Smith Institute
69 Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
70 Anne Jenkin, Treasurer, Women2Win
71 Jesse Norman, Conservative Candidate for Hereford
72 Ed Vaizey MP, MP for Wantage
73 Lord Sheikh, Conservative Party Donor
74 Damian Green MP, Shadow Immigration Spokesman
75 Lady Hodgson, Chairman, Conservative Womens' Organisation
50-26 coming tomorrow.
I'm not surprised to see Roger Scruton low on the list. Despite being the country's foremost living conservative philosopher his relationship with the Conservative Party has been rather ambiguous.
ReplyDeleteDavid Laws eh? You're a mischief monger, Mr Dale!
ReplyDeleteYour blurb for Jesse Norman this morning ends "he is now concentrating on winning back the marginal seat of Hereford from the Liberal Democrats. If he succeeds, bet on him joining the shadow cabinet within three years".
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean:
a) You/the Telegraph have officially written off the Tories' chances at the next election;
b) Jesse Norman is about to defect to Labour; or
c) The next Tory government will last for 18 months before returning to opposition?
Bishop Hill, wait till you see tomorrow's installment!
ReplyDeleteDanvers, good try, but there doesn't actually have to be an election for nearly three years!
Really? The plot thickens. In that case you must think there is going to be a by-election in Hereford? Why? Is Paul Keetch going to resign in some saucy Lib Dem style scandal? Please tell all!
ReplyDeleteDavid Laws is a shoo in. Hopefully Nick Clegg and one or two others of that Tory Lib tendancy will be in the top 50. So glad to see Mr Dale manfully scolding his bishop.
ReplyDeleteI do think that this list is already showing signs of being even barmier than to Left One Hundred.
A PPC and TWO conservative women gingerists? Paul Keetch had a week or two not in the best of health didn't he?
Perhaps Hereford Tories are about to mount a smearage campaign based on that?
Let's hope not. The law now has teeth.
I do hope Christopher Booker is in the top 50.
ReplyDeleteIs the whole point of this to build suspense for when we see how high up the dungpile you are, Iain?
ReplyDeleteI for one promise to be very very impressed.
You Tories really are keen to claim David Laws as a rightwinger, aren't you, even though he keeps telling you he isn't.
ReplyDeleteHowever the clue is in your (I'm sure deliberate) mistake in calling him the LD DWP spokesperson, which he isn't - I am very impressed with your clever way of showing us that you were only really joking in listing him here...
More bloody lists! When will it end?
ReplyDeleteI am not impressed at all with Jesse Norman. Heard him speak at a fringe at this year's Conservative Party Conference. Was not impressed.
ReplyDeleteIf that is the calibre of candidates, then god help the Conservative Party.