Charlie

[liadnan]

What's the rule about saying you won't resign three times? Ho hum. I can't see him making it through this one, which personally I think is a shame. And after all, Churchill was a notoriously heavy drinker, and Eden was a speed freak, which I always thought went some way to explaining Suez. Actually, scratch Eden, I don't think Charlie really wants to emulate arguably the worst prime minister of the last century.

Still, it does seem to me that both Kennedy and those briefing against him (incidentally, the only one of those said to have signed the letter that raises more than a flicker of recognition is Vince Cable, though I smell Simon Hughes at the bottom of it all) have pretty much thrown a spanner in the LibDem machine, at the worst possible moment for them, just as the Tories finally seem to be staggering in the direction of credibility once more.

Incidentally, Newsnight seems, on my increasingly infrequent visits, to be ever more like The Day Today. "Well Nick, what does this mean for the Liberal Democrats." "It's difficult to say Jeremy."

And Sharon clings on to life, just. I find it difficult to say anything pleasant about him.

... personal responsibility...

Comments

[ex-ajhalluk585.livejournal.com]

It really seems to come down to the following in British politics at the moment:

Which is most reprehensible?

a) denying one's alcoholism, which as a sensible LD backbencher pointed out is in fact a symptom of the condition;
b) refusing to comment about one's cocaine taking?
c) being at best economical with the truth, to Parliament, about the basis for engaging the country in a foreign war?

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

What you said. *sigh*

[aliandrik.livejournal.com]

Spot on. I don't know whether to laugh or cry, really.