Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Thursday, 26 November 2009
The End Of Cap And Trade?
Gore courtiers are like those radical feminists whom Obama wants to deselect themselves by voting against the Healthcare Bill if the ban on federal funding of abortion is still in it: Clinton supporters who never wanted him and of whom he would love to be rid. He is drawing the lines for a purge of his own party and a very serious challenge to the continued viability of the other one. There will be more lines to come, very soon.
Why have the Telegraph deleted you from their list of bloggers?
ReplyDeleteThey have much bigger plans for him. Expect NW Durham to play host to all the big Telegraph (and Mail) writers in the run up to the Election. Expect the Telegraph (and Mail) papers to play host to articles about and by David. They love, love, love the idea of giving a seat like this to a royalist, Eurosceptical, Unionist, anti-abortionist, pro-hunting AGW sceptic, so they are deliberately keeping his powder dry for now.
ReplyDeleteBob - I will eat my hat if there is one article in either the Mail or the Telegraph about David during the next election, let alone if one of their journalists goes up thee to cover him. You're having a laugh.
ReplyDeleteCover me? I'm inviting several of them to speak, and I fully expect them to come.
ReplyDeleteNow, back on-topic.
The Telegraph/Spectator/Catholic Herald lot are his friends on Facebook and follow him on Twitter. He is a very regular commenter on Coffee House, which is moderated. And on the Telegraph blog.
ReplyDeleteHe has long comments posted on Peter Hitchens's moderated blog several times each week and is probably in quite regular contact with him. Hitchens has argued for years that the old right-wing Labour party needs to come back. David is no doubt also in touch with Peter Oborne over Iraq, the Political Class and the Israel Lobby. Many of his views are not a million miles from Richard Littlejohn or even Melanie Phillips (on whose modertaed Spectator blog he comments prolifically) although she would probably balk at his foreign policies.
"A royalist, Eurosceptical, Unionist, anti-abortionist, pro-hunting AGW sceptic" with David's economic views would be what we used to call "a Labour candidate" in the long ago days when there were such people.
This comment is on topic because this post is about Obama's restoration of a Democratic Party in favour of both the good jobs threatened by the AGW nutters and the protection of unborn children within a universal public health care system. David is trying to do much the same thing over here and in the new year the media will definitely be paying attention. They are already his mates anyway.
All right, at a push, I'll allow you that one.
ReplyDeleteBob, you mean they've sacked David so as to make him better-known? Have you thought this one through?
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, he's still around. Bob's analysis is exactly right.
ReplyDeleteAnd just about on topic. But watch it.
ReplyDeleteBut he's not still around in the Telegraph, is he? That's the point. They've sacked him after 3 weeks and a lot of crowing. What's the master plan in making David look stupid?
ReplyDeleteBut he's not still around in the Telegraph, is he?
ReplyDeleteThat in is superfluous, but I doubt you know the meaning of the word. Take it out, and you cannot imagine how wrong you are.
You stupid, half-educated NuLab peasant. Labour politicians were once cultured and sophisticated, as were Tories. The likes of you give my native North East a bad name. God, if you only knew! You soon will. You very soon will.
But it says most about you that you don't already. It is your "crowing" that is shockingly misplaced.
I know what In The Know means. Mr L has the air of Healey, Crosland, Crossman and Jenkins about him even if he wouldn't always have agreed with their policies.
ReplyDeleteHis critics on the other hand are the people who are only not in the swamp because there were no more grammar schools to give the children of the poor a chance against them. If there had been then they would now be nothing and they know it.
Mr L is an Obama-like figure, an outsider-insider, the completely local, mixed race, state school, non Oxbridge candidate who still has Facebook friends, Twitter followers and other associates all over and around posh media London. The man with roots on the traditional left but huge cross-over appeal to the traditional right, which the modernist right hates him for and so does the modernist left. They are both fascinating figures. There you go Mr L, is that on topic for you?
I suppose it's as near as we are going to get.
ReplyDeleteAnd you are very kind, thank you.
I find it very hard to believe that were David still boring us all in the Telegraph, he wouldn't be crowing still about how it makes him so popular. I'm struggling, therefore, to see why him humiliatingly having had his blog pulled is also evidence that he is so popular. But maybe that's because I only went to Oxford in the absence of grammar schools. Could someone more clever than me explain?
ReplyDeleteNot so that you could understand it, no.
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