Monday, 22 September 2008

Right For Whom? And Why?

On Jeremy Vine today, a Miliband supporter called Tim Luckhurst, a former Blair adviser, described a Cameron victory as "the right outcome" of the next General Election.

Well, of course he did.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous22 September 2008 at 17:03

    Tim Luckhurst - now professor of journalism at the University of Kent and well known anti-devolutionist.

    The joke being that he was a special advisor to Donald Dewar when Dewar was drafting the Scotland Act and supported Home Rule initially but turned against it when Dewar died.

    Was for a period the editor of the Scotsman but then editor-in-chief Andrew Neil fired him. Went on to become a columnist in various papers and contributor to others. Spent much of his time howling at Holyrood and earning a reputation as a bit of an eccentric Daily Mail type.

    Alan Taylor calls Tim "Nae" Luckhurst. He is married to a Tory official whom he met while working for Dewar in Westminster. Said he likes Tory women because they tend to wear nice lingerie - leading to more laughs from the Scottish media.

    She is the candidate for a safe Tory seat. He continues to slag off Scottish self-government to cringing levels.

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  2. David Lindsay22 September 2008 at 17:13

    I doubt he'll be bothering any more. The need for Westminster to step in and engineer the saving of HBOS looks like the end of all of that. It'll never formally be abolished, of course.

    Instead, it will just wither away in a world where governments have to able to underwrite the entire financial services sector, simply inconceivable at a purely Scottish level.

    Anyway, it is good to know where the Millies are coming from. Of course, Cameron's A-list had on it several people who were at the time Blairite members of the Labour Party. Several of those are now parliamentary candidates for safe or winnable seats.

    Whether or not they are still Labour members, who knows? Certainly, no one inside the Golden Circle would care if they were.

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