Staunch opposition to illiberal measures

[purpletigron]

UK Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy "laid the path for battles in the House of Lords by saying peers could ditch historic convention and oppose Labour manifesto commitments."

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Statements like Blair's comment about the LibDems being both right and left really emphasises the fact that the old left-right divide is far too simplistic for today's politics. Its time that the politicians and the media woke up to this.

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

Suggests, surprise, surprise, that Blair is going to struggle with the concept of consensual government this time around.

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

The cover of the current issue of Private Eye pretty much agrees with that view.

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

He's listened - he said so. Maybe he reckons he doesn't have to listen any more...

I wanted to smack him when he made that speech.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Heh.

So, that's the first time you've felt this? :-)

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

Er, well... no...

[profundo-rosso.livejournal.com]

And if he resigned tomorrow, would things really be any different under Gordon Brown (even assuming Brown gets it, which is not the cast iron cert some see it as)?

What's the betting the_gardener is to first to answer that question at length?

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

Do you take dollars?

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

Mostly, I want to smack him all the time. I'm quite sure he listened – with his fingers in his ears and while humming loudly, and living on the same planet as Jeff Hoon, who incredibly claimed that Iraq was never an issue on the doorstep when he was canvassing (you have to admire the vetting job his minders did, then).

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

Damn ... trumped again.

[profundo-rosso.livejournal.com]

I do hope you're referring to that Private Eye cover, and not some unfortunate medical condition.

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

::Snort::

[del-c.livejournal.com]

I don't have a dog, so I usually blame one of the cats.