tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post1891326463541006289..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Iain Interviews Ann Widdecombe for Total PoliticsIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-15138225783690531502009-08-24T21:13:57.104+01:002009-08-24T21:13:57.104+01:00Yes, MPs [like Ms Widdecombe] who "speak thei...Yes, MPs [like Ms Widdecombe] who "speak their minds" have their place.<br /><br />So do MPs who speak some sense ....cheshireboynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-18540977154628661262009-08-22T15:11:50.543+01:002009-08-22T15:11:50.543+01:00Ann Widdecombe, among other things, supported the ...Ann Widdecombe, among other things, supported the 42 days detention bill; Eric Pickles seemed to me justified in having a second home in Brentford while residing primarily in Brentwood in Essex where his constituency is; and Nadine Dorries' blog should not have been pulled by the tax exile billionaire Barclay bros Daily Telegraph in their full Dully Tele mode.Quietzapplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15422598703061456846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-91997411177876962282009-08-22T01:39:22.595+01:002009-08-22T01:39:22.595+01:00Why can we not have more politicians like Ann Widd...Why can we not have more politicians like Ann Widdecombe, people who speak their mind and won't be told what to say or think by anyone else?The Grim Reaperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05543130733645367498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-20666602308722301102009-08-21T21:53:27.359+01:002009-08-21T21:53:27.359+01:00So "Quietzapple" backs Anne Widdecombe, ...So "Quietzapple" backs Anne Widdecombe, Eric Pickles and Nadine Dorres?<br /><br />Quietapple - your first name isn't "Jonah" by any chance is it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-10572606108978212672009-08-21T21:36:01.100+01:002009-08-21T21:36:01.100+01:00If Anne Widdecombe could only manage to stop talki...If Anne Widdecombe could only manage to stop talking about herself for a few days, "man-made global warming" would reverse itself, spontaneously.Russellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-38019145060223912162009-08-21T21:35:56.245+01:002009-08-21T21:35:56.245+01:00I thoroughly enjoyed her interview with you. Thank...I thoroughly enjoyed her interview with you. Thankyou.<br /><br />I agree entirely with her comments on climate change.<br /><br />Interesting lady and a loss to parliament as we are entering a new era.<br /><br />Wisdom versus youth.nellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-342106458280846322009-08-21T20:28:29.410+01:002009-08-21T20:28:29.410+01:00As it happens I have found good things to say abou...As it happens I have found good things to say about Anne Widdecombe in the past, and may again.<br /><br />I have also defended Eric Pickles, Nadine Dorries and others to the right of good sense on occasion.<br /><br />As a councillor I got on pretty well with quite a few conservatives too.<br /><br />But few posters declaiming their right wing credentials can hold either their water or maintain good digestion I have found.Quietzapplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15422598703061456846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-68730769476023794992009-08-21T20:23:32.049+01:002009-08-21T20:23:32.049+01:00Widdecombe: Those who asked questions are ‘deniers...Widdecombe: <em>Those who asked questions are ‘deniers’</em>.<br /><br />None of the above: First page of his science blog talks of "The denialosphere".<br /><br />Very stute and observant from Widdecombe.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-14987844198765068482009-08-21T19:49:19.493+01:002009-08-21T19:49:19.493+01:00Quietzapple, can you not find it within yourself t...Quietzapple, can you not find it within yourself to celebrate and congratulate anybody to the right of your politics who does a good job?<br /><br />If you can, can you point me to such an example of your scribblings?Faustyhttp://faustiesblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-26961449149010574832009-08-21T19:37:53.546+01:002009-08-21T19:37:53.546+01:00Ann Widdecombe is right about candidate selection....Ann Widdecombe is right about candidate selection. People should be selected on merit. If the best candidate is a woman, she should be selected. A man who is the best candidate shouldn't be rejected for being a man. She's also right on climate change. In democracies, people are free to challenge views and theories they disagree with. People shouldn't feel afraid to speak out on climate change.Seniorhttp://seniorspeaks.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-90912732259842274252009-08-21T17:02:34.361+01:002009-08-21T17:02:34.361+01:00Animal Magic, you clearly haven't been eating ...Animal Magic, you clearly haven't been eating your carrots! <br /><br />Half way down the second column, after the bit where I say GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE.Iain Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-6879319904824612982009-08-21T16:53:38.008+01:002009-08-21T16:53:38.008+01:00Iain
Followed your link to the Total Politics int...Iain<br /><br />Followed your link to the Total Politics interview. Couldn't find any reference to the climate change quote. Has it been removed.Animal Magichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11540149699251861235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-78984800404449205922009-08-21T15:01:34.053+01:002009-08-21T15:01:34.053+01:00Climate change and global warming -it is the final...Climate change and global warming -it is the final refuge in the nit-wits' paradise that is the left.Man with a thermometernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-566886866834109222009-08-21T14:15:42.881+01:002009-08-21T14:15:42.881+01:00Btw might not the window "grills" you su...Btw might not the window "grills" you suggest your golfing prowess causes neighbouring householders to erect be "grilles" . . ?<br /><br />Or do Kings Hill residents enjoy unexpectedly strong solar heating on a regular basis?Quietzapplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15422598703061456846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-68753963112729152922009-08-21T14:11:59.470+01:002009-08-21T14:11:59.470+01:00She has been doing Ken Livingstone's slot on L...She has been doing Ken Livingstone's slot on LBC all week. She has the perfect face for radio and the perfect voice for the printed word.Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-6088424728317490862009-08-21T13:18:00.695+01:002009-08-21T13:18:00.695+01:00I do admire Anne Widdecombe, might not always agre...I do admire Anne Widdecombe, might not always agree with her but she speaks her mind in a straight and forthright way and beleives in what she says.....are you listening `Dave`????......She will be missed in parliament. Oh yes and her views on so called climate change are absolutely spot on....the oiks have been looking for a cause ever since the Berlin Wall came down......Mirtha Tidvillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940977481295375071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-43435656501830917612009-08-21T13:11:47.636+01:002009-08-21T13:11:47.636+01:00Ax a teenager I knew someone slightly who has now ...Ax a teenager I knew someone slightly who has now been a tory MP for some time. If you enter his name into WIKI you get the entry for "Vodyanoy" and stuff about an author soo . . .<br /><br />http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/stainesnews/4278890.Spelthorne_MP_under_fire_for___160k_expenses_claim/<br /><br />He was single minded, and may have worked very hard.<br /><br />He isn't remotely as suggested the old style MPs were.<br /><br />Neither, really, was a predecessor at Spelthorne, Sir Beresfprd Craddock. He was pretty dour, must have served in WW2, and was worried about inflation in 1964.<br /><br />You probably need to look back to 1945 to find a significant number of candidates, let alone MPs, who were all that dashing.Quietzapplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15422598703061456846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-20608319235228184992009-08-21T12:42:58.330+01:002009-08-21T12:42:58.330+01:00The Conservative Party in Parliament already has q...The Conservative Party in Parliament already has quite a large number of second class citizens. However, that does put it ahead of the Lib Dems, and way way out in front of Labour.Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-71997052981037547112009-08-21T12:35:24.643+01:002009-08-21T12:35:24.643+01:00Ann Widdecome is a thoroughly decent, logical, pla...Ann Widdecome is a thoroughly decent, logical, plain-spaking, principled person and I shall mourn her going.<br /><br />Good interview, Iain.Faustyhttp://faustiesblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-69092136543527676012009-08-21T11:26:36.548+01:002009-08-21T11:26:36.548+01:00The claims that any Climate Change is not signific...The claims that any Climate Change is not significantly a product of human actions are truly enhanced off course by s'tory liebels & abuses . . .Quietzapplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15422598703061456846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-24256917723599190222009-08-21T11:18:39.593+01:002009-08-21T11:18:39.593+01:00A voice coach for Ann would have made her more bea...A voice coach for Ann would have made her more bearable to listen to. <br /><br />She is quite right regarding her views on candidate selection. There have been many u-turns . The Tory executive at local level usually went for the same handsome military/public school type of candidate with a huge country estate, in order to hold fund raising functions when he got elected!<br /><br />The trend now is for fresh faced sporty girls with clipped forties style voices to provide local colour by way of the Boden look, this type of 'gal' appeals to the country estate ex public school retired military types who will be giving up their parliamentary seats at the next election !<br /><br />Can any of us remember what is meant by quality? Do we have to hark back forty years or so.<br /> <br />Perhaps a local treasurer of the WI or working mans club may suffice?True Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296161522047947133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-33150989387495528062009-08-21T10:53:56.567+01:002009-08-21T10:53:56.567+01:00Pure gold, Widders. Right on every count, such hon...Pure gold, Widders. Right on every count, such honesty and integrity lost to Parliament. Would have made a 1st class Speaker too, instead of that preening pip-squeak.Glyn Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-50655143744636940042009-08-21T10:37:04.247+01:002009-08-21T10:37:04.247+01:00Oh gawd, can't stand the woman whenever she op...Oh gawd, can't stand the woman whenever she opens her mouth, her voice grates on me, which is a pity really as I try to listen to what everyone has to say, even though I don't agree with their politics.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-84961624700047162382009-08-21T10:33:53.995+01:002009-08-21T10:33:53.995+01:00"Theology of a medieval church" eh? Well..."Theology of a medieval church" eh? Well, she should know as (like Blair) a late convent to the most medieval religion outside Islam !<br /><br />Time to throw a little mud at this "icon" : as my MP, she was always spectacularly evasive about her position on the Iraq war (no doubt she now cleaves to the safe, post-event, Conservative party line). <br />Like George Galloway and Vince Cable, she is a popular figure, carefully building her image, and usually economical with the truth.Dimotonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-27603857202703064322009-08-21T10:33:51.191+01:002009-08-21T10:33:51.191+01:00I think this denialist who is plainly in the pay o...I think this denialist who is plainly in the pay of big oil should be sent on a CP training weekend/re education camp to alter her denialist misconceptions fed to her by her big oil paymasters.<br /><br />Isnt she aware that the thousands of foreign built windmills will produce millions of tonnes of pure clean energy without producing any of the dangerous and deadly toxin called CO2 with which big oil wishes to poison us with and millions of green jobs and we will all live happily ever after with a windmill in sight which BTW is completely harmless to human and animal health and anyone who denies this is obviously in the pay of big oil.<br />Did I mention big oil? they are very naughty people indeed, we dont need their stinking oil anyway, windmills will save us.<br /><br />Unless of course Anne is already in the pay of big oil and is spreading their mis information via the interblog.<br /><br />Ill get my coat!cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06088596240127998878noreply@blogger.com