tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post1655070403925775626..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Tory MP Doesn't Go to Conference ShockerIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-23280481617979075282007-09-27T21:19:00.000+01:002007-09-27T21:19:00.000+01:00David Lindsay"Last year's Tory Conference never di...David Lindsay<BR/><BR/>"Last year's Tory Conference never discussed a single policy (not one, all week)"<BR/><BR/>Absolute balderdash. Stop trotting out rubbish.Praguetoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16520923731691837948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-80524298164529899362007-09-27T20:24:00.000+01:002007-09-27T20:24:00.000+01:00chatterbox, I agree with you about Jon Craig. I fi...chatterbox, I agree with you about Jon Craig. I find his reports so partial to New Labour that I seriously wonder about his independence. Whenever I see him on the news, I change the channel. If I want Labour propaganda, I can go to the BBC or the Downing Street website.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-67851614085383170112007-09-27T20:22:00.000+01:002007-09-27T20:22:00.000+01:00"Labour are out there tempting the weak and disaff..."Labour are out there tempting the weak and disaffected."<BR/>Just like Jehovah's Witnesses.Little Black Sambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699227938165106710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-70045375100695923942007-09-27T20:00:00.000+01:002007-09-27T20:00:00.000+01:00Maybe Iain is going to defect.....OMGMaybe Iain is going to defect.....<BR/><BR/>OMGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-81964591136413199982007-09-27T19:18:00.000+01:002007-09-27T19:18:00.000+01:00You're in denial, Iain.It's more than just Bercow....You're in denial, Iain.<BR/><BR/>It's more than just Bercow.<BR/><BR/>I'm being told that 5 are in for a possible switch.<BR/><BR/>Gary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-37240558667424010112007-09-27T18:46:00.000+01:002007-09-27T18:46:00.000+01:00Iain, I read an article about Bercow in the press ...Iain, I read an article about Bercow in the press a few weeks ago which made it clear he was not attended the conference this year. <BR/>I have just seen Jon Craig's rather graceless, and dare I say it snotty update following a correction from David Davis. <BR/>He did not do his homework, and should have at least checked out his facts with Davis before spinning this story, I use the word spinning because that is exactly what it is!<BR/>You must make a point of watching his reports on sky, they are a sight to behold and extremely partisan. I think he gets his briefings from Labour daily then builds his whole story around the fact that if it came from a Labour minster it must true!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-38513862489720411802007-09-27T18:44:00.000+01:002007-09-27T18:44:00.000+01:00Perhaps your next book should be "The Forgotten Ar...Perhaps your next book should be "The Forgotten Art of Blogging".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-41186240262299741792007-09-27T18:43:00.000+01:002007-09-27T18:43:00.000+01:00No posts for hours = bad blogging.No posts for hours = bad blogging.Madasafishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06109237198481955714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-54188211978415212492007-09-27T18:28:00.000+01:002007-09-27T18:28:00.000+01:00Oh my god! David Davis is going to defect!Oh my god! David Davis is going to defect!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-88593012643327307132007-09-27T18:22:00.000+01:002007-09-27T18:22:00.000+01:00if Bercow defects (he's been a serial disloyalist ...if Bercow defects (he's been a serial disloyalist as was Portillo), the number of europhiles left in the party as MPs will be reducing to a tiny number - Cormack, Curry, Clarke spring to mind - plus Bob the Blob at Bromley.<BR/><BR/>When all europiles have defected, that are going to, couldn't the remaining rump be deselected and the Conservative Party can get behind Cameron's pitch for the ref on the con 100%?<BR/><BR/>If Frances Maude's A List pushed in a new 5th column of europiles as at battersea, Jane Ellison? surely they too should be moved on before they can make trouble for Cameron.<BR/><BR/>As for Bercow, he's welcome to go any time, but why did nhis Constituenst not deselect him years ago?Tapestryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267094484651413428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-91898919143443308542007-09-27T17:53:00.000+01:002007-09-27T17:53:00.000+01:00I am sick of being invited to meetings in Blackpoo...I am sick of being invited to meetings in Blackpool to talk about where we are going wrong. Why can't we stop defining everything we do against Brown, and make a clear case for positive Conservative government? <BR/><BR/>This 11 point lead is, in my view, not about people liking what Brown does, it's because they aren't sure what we can do to stop him!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-76287356995436564662007-09-27T17:48:00.001+01:002007-09-27T17:48:00.001+01:00As Long as someone like Cameron is Leader the part...As Long as someone like Cameron is Leader the party is doomed.<BR/><BR/>He was picked to fight Blair, but Brown has turned out to be far more popular with the country than anyone thought. The Tory party needs a substantial leader not a light weight leader with a guilty conscience about his wealth.Johnny Norfolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900659617233793880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-20705785013998120752007-09-27T17:48:00.000+01:002007-09-27T17:48:00.000+01:00The naked panic of the Conservative Party this wee...The naked panic of the Conservative Party this week is just making it more likely that the conference will be the disaster everyone suspects.<BR/><BR/>David Davis obviously wants to avoid being questioned in fringe meetings, and will probably just do an unexceptional (boring) speech on crime, so that he can go as unnoticed as possible. He knows he can't tell the truth about Cameron, so he is distancing himself.<BR/><BR/>The party's over.Andy Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01340947209421740470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-76022650997983825052007-09-27T17:46:00.000+01:002007-09-27T17:46:00.000+01:00Hi Iain, I never understood the Conservative likin...Hi Iain, I never understood the Conservative liking for going to Blackpool. I imagine that any number of Conservatives might choose to give the place a miss. Mind you kind of amusing to that things are so bad that even obviously paranoid nonsense still gets an airing. If you are going, I wish you a jolly conference, but you would have had more fun in Brighton...Cicerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02090838836212624633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-22393946757290551942007-09-27T17:33:00.000+01:002007-09-27T17:33:00.000+01:00why is it that tory MPs are tempted to join labour...<I>why is it that tory MPs are tempted to join labour? why none the other way round? </I><BR/><BR/>I'd say because Labour are on the case 24/7 - with the likes of Quentin Davis giving it his all (he said as much on the Daily Politics). Labour are out there tempting the weak and disaffected with bribes. This is what Brownites do - somewhat satanic.Oscar Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09423019456579337438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-82816209338425433652007-09-27T17:02:00.000+01:002007-09-27T17:02:00.000+01:00Time was when any Labour MP who became an "adviser...Time was when any Labour MP who became an "adviser" to the Tories would have had the Whip withdrawn on the spot, and been expelled from the Labour Party very soon thereafter.<BR/><BR/>But now that Tory and Lib Dem MPs are "advisers" to Gordon Brown, why doesn't David Cameron use his Party Conference to announce his own "advisers" from among the more dedicated Brown-haters on the Labour benches? What could Brown possibly say or do?<BR/><BR/>And what could Ming Campbell possibly say or do, having allowed Matthew Taylor to "advise" Brown, if Cameron conferred such positions on, most obviously, Nick Clegg and David Laws?<BR/><BR/>Not that this will happen, of course. Last year's Tory Conference never discussed a single policy (not one, all week), and I doubt that this year's will discuss so much as a single political machination. In fact, is anyone even going to turn up? If so, why?David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-2139786909276065522007-09-27T16:53:00.000+01:002007-09-27T16:53:00.000+01:00Both Bercow and Mercer have effectively given up t...Both Bercow and Mercer have effectively given up the Conservative whip. They now serve the leader of another party, in a way that undermines their former party and damages the democratic system of the country.<BR/><BR/>I'm just not sure why the party hasn't formally withdrawn the whip from such traitors.Man in a Shedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00990902055642035293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1848112318087639472007-09-27T15:48:00.000+01:002007-09-27T15:48:00.000+01:00Redbox - Maybe DD is out back sharpening his knife...Redbox - Maybe DD is out back sharpening his knife.<BR/><BR/>One thing that puzzles me about British political conferences is, why do they call it "conference", and not "the conference".<BR/><BR/>It is so pretentious. When you go to the dentist, do you go for appointment, or do you put an article in front of it.<BR/><BR/>When you attend a meeting, unless you're a Quaker, do you go to "meeting" or "a meeting"? When you enquire about the results of a meeting, do you say, "How was meeting" or "How was the meeting?"<BR/><BR/>Why no definite article? I've always thought this is so self-important and ignorant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-69742808844175613172007-09-27T15:41:00.000+01:002007-09-27T15:41:00.000+01:00bercow won't defect - he's gone to a lot of troubl...bercow won't defect - he's gone to a lot of trouble defending his decision to help the government. only in the last few days, he has written to buckingham members explaining his decision. he also praises cameron in this letter. why would he go to this trouble if he was about to defect? if there's a defection it won't be bercow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-5874972646822157992007-09-27T15:17:00.000+01:002007-09-27T15:17:00.000+01:00Sky Blog have changed their story.Sky Blog <A HREF="http://chrispaul-labouroflove.blogspot.com/2007/09/lib-con-fight-for-scraps-devil-is-in.html" REL="nofollow">have changed their story</A>.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-5681158002292964832007-09-27T15:02:00.000+01:002007-09-27T15:02:00.000+01:00It's still a very interesting story though Iain ev...It's still a very interesting story though Iain even if DD decided this "some time ago." It certainly begs the question why the Conservative Party's consistently most effective frontbench operator is hiding his light under a bushel in this way at a time when, as redbox says, the big guns would normally be expected to be out there and firing.Paul Linfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977920120772282561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-60003255697687503132007-09-27T14:53:00.000+01:002007-09-27T14:53:00.000+01:00http://hobycartoons.blogspot.com/2007/09/looking-a...http://hobycartoons.blogspot.com/2007/09/looking-at-no-one-in-particular.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-8888284948454139432007-09-27T14:51:00.002+01:002007-09-27T14:51:00.002+01:00I enjoyed DD at last year's fringe - it was a brea...I enjoyed DD at last year's fringe - it was a breakfast event. He seemed to have fun too. Lots of Tory MPs don't go to conference. For example, I can't see Richard Shepherd defecting and I don't believe he's making the trip. Similarly, I'm not going this year. I doubt you'll find me defecting, either.Praguetoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16520923731691837948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-38599782105434914762007-09-27T14:51:00.001+01:002007-09-27T14:51:00.001+01:00The Mail on Sunday are sniffing around this - they...The Mail on Sunday are sniffing around this - they're calling MP's offices asking if they're going to conference or not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-80669511506469005002007-09-27T14:51:00.000+01:002007-09-27T14:51:00.000+01:00Foolish to jump now if a General Election is immin...Foolish to jump now if a General Election is imminent. Why jump now and immediately lose your seat in parliament, surely you'd hang around get re-elected and then screw your constituents over?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08039242826791152344noreply@blogger.com