Wednesday 8 January 2014

RIP Paul Goggins

One of the good ones.

5 comments:

  1. No wonder you loved him. Voted against equal marriage. Voted against abortion under any circumstances.

    Former seminarian at Ushaw College about two miles from your house, then social worker for "Liverpool Catholic Social Services".

    Director of "Church Action on Poverty" and cog in the Northern municipal machine until he became an MP for a safe seat.

    Ed Miliband almost in tears paying tribute to him in the House today suggests Labour is heading back to the dark days of its past.

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  2. Well, the future Coalition Govt is finally underway.

    The Labour-Lib Dem coalition is coming.

    The Guardian writes today:

    ""A rapprochement between Labour and the Liberal Democrats has been signalled as Ed Balls indicated he could imagine forming a coalition with Nick Clegg if no party secured an overall majority after the next general election.

    In a New Statesman interview, the shadow chancellor said he understood "totally" why the Lib Dem leader had formed a coalition with the Tories after the 2010 general election – to ensure that Britain had a "credible" deficit reduction plan.

    His interview prompted something of a Twitter love-in between the two politicians. Clegg made light of the interview by tweeting: "Ed Balls" – a skit on Balls's famous Twitter faux pas, which spawned Ed Balls Day, when he tweeted his own name when he was searching for tweets about himself.

    Balls responded to Clegg by tweeting: "I agree with Nick".

    Peter Hitchens was first to this story.

    Soon, it'll be old news.

    Liberal Labour, Liberal Dems and Liberal Tories.

    The great interchangeable merry-go-round.

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  3. if no party secured an overall majority

    With all polls, and real votes, having now indicated for years a three-figure Labour overall majority.

    The Guardian's Lib-Lab obsession is one of the great unrequited love affairs of human history, pursued without the slightest reciprocation for well over 20 years and counting.

    On-topic, please.

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  4. When it happens, you'll be the only person who was surprised.

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  5. Apart from every pollster and every psephologist, for a start.

    The Guardian has wanted Labour and the Lib Dems to get together and just be the SDP ever since the SDP went away, which was a good generation ago now.

    It has never happened, and it never will. Anyone who thinks otherwise knows nothing, absolutely nothing, about either Labour or the Lib Dems.

    I am not putting up anything else off-topic.

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