I have vendettas against many people I have never met, among them George W. Bush, William Hague, Robin Page, William Rees-Mogg, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Charles Moore, Boris Johnson, Dominic Lawson, Roger Scruton, Richard Littlejohn, Peter Hitchens, Ian Bruce, Oliver Letwin, Adrian Flook, Andrew Rosindell, Bob Dunn, Christopher Chope, Iain Duncan Smith, Ann Widdecombe, Chris Moyles, Neil Hamilton, Christine Hamilton, Gillian Shephard, Virginia Bottomley, John Townend, Christopher Gill, Laurence Robertson, Sir Richard Body, and many, many more.
― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 9 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Saturday, 9 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Now that the Lib Dems have held Devon West and Torridge and Labour have held Dover, I wonder whether any Tory will even *dare* to mention anger at foot-and-mouth and anti-asylum-seeker sentiment as strengths of their party. If any Tory does, mention the above two results and see how his / her face turns. Or not.
As for a personal nemisis, it seems I have one. Once my freind - TICK! Now has some half-forgotten, obscure vendetta against me - TICK! Now a junkie - TICK! And an all round, good old fashioned twat of the first order - TICK!
Haven't seen him in a dog's age though. Last time I did I found myself sat opposite him on a train. He looked like a fat, bloated, palid, junkie-corpse. He regarded me through half-open, watery eyes with what looked a sneer. But he - and I - said nothing.
I doubt if he's on the triple W though. If he is he's probably hosting www.repugnantwastoid.com Or something.
― DavidM, Saturday, 9 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Michael, Saturday, 9 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Who ?
― Patrick, Saturday, 9 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Yes but before that happens they will be forced to reinvent themselves as a more socially liberal, centrist party (as Heseltine said on Thursday night - elections in the UK are won on the centre ground). Admittedly it might take another defeat for them to finally realise this. But even then, don't assume that Labour can automatically expect a third term - they've been fortunate with the state of the economy so far, and have been given the benefit of the doubt on improving public services (arguably an impossibility).
― David, Sunday, 10 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Sunday, 10 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 10 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
"The more feral element will combine ..."; yes, exactly, I predicted this privately a while back. You can begin to imagine a third party (as in several mainland European countries; Austria's Freedom Party was one such to begin with) where the more extreme side of Toryism joins up with UKIP and BNP attitudes. Meanwhile the Heseltine / Clarke wing might join up with ... who? Moderate Labour or the less socialistic Lib Dems? Maybe both; certainly I think there will be more Woodwards, Nicholsons and Temple-Morrises.
"angrily grudging": that's my mother's support for Labour now, and she's voted for them every election these last 35 years. I think you're right that the left-of-Labour movement will get more organised; the Green Party's impressive string of saved deposits (relative to their previous record: hadn't they only saved one deposit and that in the 1989 by-election in Vauxhall?) proves that there *is* a growing counter-movement.
"a spate of single-issue candidates": true, the result of the breakdown in stable, consensual attachment to one particular party (a wholly good thing because it makes voters far less uncritically accepting) itself related to the decline of communitarianism mentioned by David in the other thread. Noticeably the Lib Dems stood aside in Wyre Forest, doubtless aware that Dr Richard Taylor's cause was *symbolically* greater than theirs (they had many other seats to win, he obviously just the one).
"Nothing kicks like betrayal": true, why I think left-of-Labour parties (but not the old Scargillian hardline) will be *the* boom area over the next 4/5 years (and that includes both the Lib Dems and the "fringe" movements).
lol old ilx
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 17 June 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
-- David, Sunday, June 10, 2001 12:00 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link
Surely not THE David?
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 17 June 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Aggressive Cameron is aggressive.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 June 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
In an attempt to counter that, I could only find the following fella, who 'occasionally plays at left back'. Ladies and gentlemen...
Defensive Cameron is defensive. http://www.peterheadfc.org.uk/images/profile/0506/dougiecameron.jpg
― Just got offed, Sunday, 17 June 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
The Sainted Robin Carmody
― Heave Ho, Sunday, 16 September 2007 10:45 (sixteen years ago) link