tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post6348707726173115084..comments2024-03-27T20:14:40.376+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: A Long Time In PoliticsDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-34703162097000746862013-09-29T14:56:21.118+01:002013-09-29T14:56:21.118+01:00Chuka? Michael Dugher? Our old mate Jon Ashworth? ...Chuka? Michael Dugher? Our old mate Jon Ashworth? They would have to fight it out among themselves. Any of them would be good, not just better than Harman, really good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-26287870359217508802013-09-29T12:29:38.513+01:002013-09-29T12:29:38.513+01:00With even Charlie Falconer and Andrew Adonis lined...With even Charlie Falconer and Andrew Adonis lined up against Peter Mandelson, Philip Collins, Dan Hodges and John Rentoul, the High Blairite ultras have become a party of their own.<br /><br />They ought to constitute themselves as such.<br /><br />Or join the one with which they agree. It is led by the Prime Minister, which is the only situation that can possibly interest them.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-61520226280014682392013-09-29T02:06:01.123+01:002013-09-29T02:06:01.123+01:00No, he (she?) is right, and I am older than you. 1...No, he (she?) is right, and I am older than you. 10 years on and Neil Fleming has a lot to answer for. Readers might say who? To that I say, exactly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-36024144400765216682013-09-28T23:51:09.964+01:002013-09-28T23:51:09.964+01:00You really are far too kind.
And if you are a gen...You really are far too kind.<br /><br />And if you are a generation or so younger than I am, then you really are a lot better than I was at your age.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-79311753308908353202013-09-28T23:39:23.738+01:002013-09-28T23:39:23.738+01:00Leaving the Lib Dems as the party opposed to both....Leaving the Lib Dems as the party opposed to both.<br /><br />As your readers in print and online know, Mr. Lindsay, the combination of economic and social liberalism originated in the Liberal Party in the UK and defines the ones abroad like the German FDP. It went on to take over first the Tories and then Labour.<br /><br />But the Tories now want to recognise marriage in the tax system again and Labour now want to control energy prices again. They both used to do both, before they were both taken over by Liberals. I learned that from you, like a lot of other people.<br /><br />You were "formed in the womb in the 1970s." I wish you were Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Doing the job from the back benches. Putting down amendments in all your causes from taking back each rail franchise in turn to raising the age of consent to 18. Forcing votes on them.<br /><br />Maybe writing a couple of newspaper columns a week. Definitely appearing on radio or television every other day or so.<br /><br />And addressing Blue Labour/community organising and People's Assembly events all over the country, making them both integral to the party machine for policy input and feet on the ground.<br /><br />You are the lost leader of your generation, Mr. Lindsay. But your work has probably guaranteed that there will not be a lost leader of my generation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com