tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post5179922852279497021..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Confessions of a Tory CandidateIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-85404041809207654762007-07-11T02:33:00.000+01:002007-07-11T02:33:00.000+01:00Annon 1.02 - these would be the Cornish who have r...Annon 1.02 - these would be the Cornish who have reloacted to the area from London then?<BR/><BR/>I am not saying there are no sensible people in Cornwall, but was making a lighthearted generalisation based on the fact that there are an aweful lot of complete fruitcakes down there.<BR/><BR/>And as I said, I grew up in rural Devon where we bake a fw fruitcakes of our own!<BR/><BR/>And yes, I would happily go dwon again - it's a beautifu part of the country to canvass in, and despite the leg pulling, the cornish are great fun!Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06514885826616402615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-76433716198703533572007-07-10T19:16:00.000+01:002007-07-10T19:16:00.000+01:00Goodness sake another Londoner is picked to fight ...Goodness sake another Londoner is picked to fight the wild west of North Cornwall. This is perhaps the most indigenous Cornish of all the Cornish seats. Another retain for the Cornish Liberals.<BR/>What the F---k is going on as it cant be that the Cornish are in control because they have not been for several years now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-64297773246256664862007-07-10T13:02:00.000+01:002007-07-10T13:02:00.000+01:00Re: Adrian Yelland: 4.35am: The only residents o...Re: Adrian Yelland: 4.35am: The only residents of Cornwall who live on another planet are the people who sit on Conservative Selection Committees. They keep picking bizarre, ineffectual and unelectable Conservative candidates. I believe there is a large group of Cornish Conservatives from this planet earth who are putting up Thatcherite Candidates in 3 of the 6 Cornish seats. As you are a confessed Thatcherite on your website they will be no doubt be in touch when the next Election is announced and maybe you can jump aboard your spaceship, fly down and help them canvass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-69580615879447324392007-07-10T04:35:00.000+01:002007-07-10T04:35:00.000+01:00Mixed feelings about that post. She has no party h...Mixed feelings about that post. She has no party history as she admits (even her freinds didn;t know she was a tory), but points out that she has bags of expereince outside of politics.<BR/><BR/>Then she gets on the A list full of black/Asian/women candidates - which perhaps indicates that, despite claims to the contrary, the A list is about getting politically-correct/acceptable people into the commons.<BR/><BR/>The charitable interpretation is that all those on the list are utterly brilliant and deserve a fast-track to a safe seat - but they just happen to be dissprortionately black/Asian/female (or all three). The cynical view is that this is just a way to redress the inbalance of male, middle class Tory MPs, and is PC!<BR/><BR/>I am somewhere in the middle, generally supportive, recognising the problem of under representations, but but just a bit worried that it could be abused.<BR/><BR/>I just wish that we had more black/Asain/Women candidates who had party history and real life expereince. That way, I wouldn't feel so uncomfortable with the current selection process.<BR/><BR/>Step forward more people like Priti Patel, who whatever you think of her, has proven her worth and commitment to the cuase over many years!<BR/><BR/>Sadly, the article shows just how mad some associations can be. I spent a few months campaigning in Penzance in 2001. Someone said that Cornwall is like another country.<BR/><BR/>Another Planet would have been more accurate! And I come from Devon!!!!Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06514885826616402615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-92131419036615929202007-07-08T19:30:00.000+01:002007-07-08T19:30:00.000+01:00This poll gives labour a 58 seat majority - that'l...This poll gives labour a 58 seat majority - that'll do nicely!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-835367096639961342007-07-08T18:59:00.000+01:002007-07-08T18:59:00.000+01:00Get a grip Iain. The Labour trolls have taken over...Get a grip Iain. The Labour trolls have taken over this site.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-63422712728986921102007-07-08T18:51:00.000+01:002007-07-08T18:51:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-88653000817733115332007-07-08T18:49:00.000+01:002007-07-08T18:49:00.000+01:00Thank goodness you've stopped commenting on every ...Thank goodness you've stopped commenting on every poll Iain. However a serious of better results in a row is not a blip or a bounce it's a surge.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-60915146213353756232007-07-08T18:19:00.000+01:002007-07-08T18:19:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-3109776981500124222007-07-08T16:45:00.000+01:002007-07-08T16:45:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-26833338771386726572007-07-08T16:44:00.000+01:002007-07-08T16:44:00.000+01:00Anonymous 4:32 - It's Dave's World. He doesn't kn...Anonymous 4:32 - It's Dave's World. He doesn't know there's any other. He thinks all the people he sees - vaguely - walking around and at traffic lights are extras, for background. He doesn't know they're voters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-18922056818722014182007-07-08T16:28:00.000+01:002007-07-08T16:28:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-76913889177324701762007-07-08T16:15:00.000+01:002007-07-08T16:15:00.000+01:00Just read Caroline Righton's article in the MoS. ...Just read Caroline Righton's article in the MoS. Lightweight, patronising, dismissive of the "traditionalists",inconsistent,no substance and no policies. And to top it all insulting a local farmer like that (particularly as most of us know exactly who she refers to) is a bad, bad idea. In fact she is everything that Dave admires. The conservative candidate in the next Constituency of Truro and Falmouth is the same, well probably slightly worse. Must say though that the one on the other side, SE Cornwall, is of a much different calibre. I suggest every Conservative activist in Cornwall pitches in behind Sheryl Murray as it is the only seat in Cornwall we are likely to win.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-40459749788572720932007-07-08T16:05:00.000+01:002007-07-08T16:05:00.000+01:00>verityMost illegitimate and unwanted kids are the...>verity<BR/>Most illegitimate and unwanted kids are the result of underage drinking:-)<BR/><BR/>So logically , if they don't drink, they won't conceive:-)Madasafishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06109237198481955714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-52970379321268443112007-07-08T15:37:00.000+01:002007-07-08T15:37:00.000+01:00Madasafish: "Raise taxes on alcohol to prevent you...Madasafish: "Raise taxes on alcohol to prevent youngsters"?<BR/><BR/>Could you tell us how this works, please?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-15756212202738493062007-07-08T15:04:00.000+01:002007-07-08T15:04:00.000+01:00Talking of sacking, IDS is an ex military man and ...Talking of sacking, IDS is an ex military man and has as much political acumen as the albatross that chased the Ancient Mariner.<BR/><BR/>Raise taxes on alcohol to prevent youngsters?<BR/><BR/>Waht about the far simpler solution of raising the legal age at which alcohol can be bought to say 21?<BR/><BR/>Instead penalise everyone .. and of course encourage more white vans to import duty free.<BR/><BR/>Once a loser always a loser in politics imo... <BR/>IF IDS policy is Conservative policy, I'll not vote for them -- muppetry.Madasafishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06109237198481955714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1635033951829382682007-07-08T14:03:00.000+01:002007-07-08T14:03:00.000+01:00Anonymous - thanks, Mike. Feeling snappish? Didn'...Anonymous - thanks, Mike. Feeling snappish? Didn't you order enough garbage off the dustbin truck to see you through Sunday?<BR/><BR/>I know what Dave could do! He could sack some more military men! Those are the only people he ever sacks and he seems to think it gives him a macho image. First Mr Patrick Mercer on a flimsy, trumped up charge, now Mr Swire on the flimsy, trumped up charge. He floated the idea of charging admissions charges for museums. Certainly a cause for sacking someone - especially if they are a military man and everything Dave despises. He will replace Mr Swire with a Somali hoodie. Or maybe a Somali slag as that's a threefer: the surpassingly important "ethnic minority", a woman and "under-privileged".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-43473480610788837782007-07-08T14:01:00.000+01:002007-07-08T14:01:00.000+01:00OT, but haqve you seen THIS?OT, but haqve you seen <A HREF="http://peterblack.blogspot.com/2007/07/rent-mob.html" REL="nofollow">THIS</A>?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-8880549437746837072007-07-08T13:50:00.000+01:002007-07-08T13:50:00.000+01:00Why nothing on Charlie Elphinke Iain ?Why nothing on Charlie Elphinke Iain ?Colin Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597108839077599479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-8795415950574207892007-07-08T13:44:00.000+01:002007-07-08T13:44:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-22122289614717083622007-07-08T13:42:00.000+01:002007-07-08T13:42:00.000+01:00Geezer said... The Conservatives have no friend...Geezer said...<BR/><BR/> The Conservatives have no friends in the MSM, you morons!<BR/><BR/>Your a proper little gent you are sir to be sure.Big man behind your laptop, but a little man in the real world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-74347561954536852172007-07-08T13:36:00.000+01:002007-07-08T13:36:00.000+01:00ezra said... What the polls do show is that the...ezra said...<BR/><BR/> What the polls do show is that the next election will not at all be like 1997. Brown is no Major and Cameron is no Blair.<BR/><BR/>It took a while to get my head round that,but all is now clear.I agree Labour will trounce the toff and his toffees at the next election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-16294415268642762202007-07-08T13:29:00.000+01:002007-07-08T13:29:00.000+01:00Geezer said...How can anyone pretend that the Labo...Geezer said...How can anyone pretend that the Labour bias in the media doesn’t have a very significant effect.<BR/><BR/>Had no effect on me,I still vote Labour.<BR/><BR/>Geezer said...Not surprised that people like you are too embarrassed or ashamed to put your name to posts!<BR/><BR/>You are not however ashamed to tell us all that your name is "geezer",betcha it's not and your fibbing.You give no more information about yourself than "Anonymous" posters do.So don't be a silly fellow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-35343239753883158272007-07-08T13:21:00.000+01:002007-07-08T13:21:00.000+01:00PSJ said... I think the public will soon reali...PSJ said...<BR/><BR/> I think the public will soon realise (again?) how ghastly and incompetent Broon is though. <BR/><BR/>They have had ten years,how much more time do you think they will need for Gods' sake ? They don't want to take a chance on your lot getting back into power again.They remember what you were like,and they unlike you have not forgotten.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-67337681752989875392007-07-08T13:09:00.000+01:002007-07-08T13:09:00.000+01:00The Sunday Mirror has a poll showing a Labour lead...The Sunday Mirror has a poll showing a Labour lead of 2% (37-35-17) over the Conservatives. Not so much of a Brown bounce as a Brown blip.<BR/><BR/>Not so much of a Tory bounce either, considering Brown and company have been running the country for ten years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com