Monday 5 January 2009

Fools, Beasts and Hobbies

Once an integral part of the culture, but now kept going by a dwindling band of mostly elderly enthusiasts.

Though still with a stranglehold on the filling of seats in Parliament.
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18 comments:

  1. Anonymous5 January 2009 at 16:15

    Not by Break Dancing Jesus.

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  2. David Lindsay5 January 2009 at 16:23

    Wrong chromosomes, poor soul.

    But he'll get something eventually. Which is a terrifying indictment of what this country has become.

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  3. Anonymous5 January 2009 at 16:35

    I assume you have heard the latest name in the frame for NW Durham.

    It has to be a practising Catholic if Hilary retires, for all the reasons you already know. Including the fear that you would cut the Labour vote in half if it wasn't.

    But you are presumably going to run anyway, so we are looking at a battle between a Catholic intellectual and, how can I put this, a non-intellectual. Selected purely for being both a Catholic and a woman.

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  4. David Lindsay5 January 2009 at 16:40

    There are regular rumours.

    If the Pro-Life Alliance had stood here in 1997, it would have cut the Labour majority in half and seen Hilary replaced (no doubt in return for a peerage) with a pro-life Catholic in time for 2001.

    I know, as I expect do you, who that would probably have been, even if he does have the misfortune of having a Y chromosome.

    Why didn't it happen? We shall never know.

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  5. Anonymous5 January 2009 at 16:49

    It's completely incomprehensible that the PLA never put up here. And it's completely incomprehensible this seat doesn't have a Catholic MP. In particular if the sitting MP was retiring, a local candidate who could get out the Catholic vote would easily be the first past the post.

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  6. Anonymous5 January 2009 at 16:59

    There's local and there's local. And what if there were two local, Catholic candidates?

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  7. Anonymous5 January 2009 at 17:03

    We are soon going to find out. And "there's local and there's local" alright.

    If Labour puts up a local Catholic, they will be running scared of David Lindsay and he'll never stop reminding them of it. If they don't, they will be handing the seat to him plain and simple.

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  8. David Lindsay5 January 2009 at 17:05

    Hold on, hold on! Hilary might not retire after all. All the intelligence is that she very well won't, because she is so unimpressed by the calibre (or lack of it) of the potential successors being lined up.

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  9. Anonymous5 January 2009 at 17:09

    How does NW Durham have Hilary? Hey, N Durham had Giles for long enough.

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  10. David Lindsay5 January 2009 at 17:11

    I used to wonder about that one myself. Much more left-wing CLP, back in the days when there still were CLPs.

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  11. Anonymous5 January 2009 at 17:12

    I bet they miss him now.

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  12. David Lindsay5 January 2009 at 17:12

    I don't have to bet on it.

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  13. Anonymous5 January 2009 at 17:23

    Careful, BDJ will set his brother-in-law on you again.

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  14. David Lindsay5 January 2009 at 17:24

    Not any more, he won't. He wouldn't dare.

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  15. Anonymous5 January 2009 at 17:26

    A comment on the Tony Blair/Opus Dei thread says that "the orthodoxy of Hilary Armstrong's sucessor is to be vetted by you, on the grounds that if she is Catholic enough for you then she will be Catholic enough for anyone".

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  16. David Lindsay5 January 2009 at 17:28

    And I have replied that this is news to me, but they know where I am.

    Hilary's successor of which party?

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  17. Anonymous5 January 2009 at 17:35

    Is this the year when we finally get rid of BDJ?

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  18. David Lindsay5 January 2009 at 17:37

    I'll work with you if you'll work with me.

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