LibDem Blogs - Archived! - Friday 21st September 2007

What the Uzbek Oligarch does not want you to know about him

Ordovicious has repeated the information about the Uzbek Oligarch that the Oligarch has tried to silence by making threats via his lawyers against UK bloggers. Genuinely worth a read. P.S. It is worth noting that over 120 bloggers have posted on this subject, but only a handful of these are Lib Dems. The more people that talk about this issue on their blog then the more important a news item this will become. The 120 are Curious Hamster, Pickled Politics, Harry’s Place, Tim Worstall, Dizzy, Iain Dale, Ten Percent, Blairwatch, Davide Simonetti, Earthquake Cove, Turbulent Cleric, Mike Power, Jailhouse Lawyer, ...

Why is Norman Lamb standing with a picture up of a giant pair of pliers holding a rock ?

Apparently it was a photo opportunity regarding the decay in NHS dentistry, although if anyone can think of a caption to go with the picture, do let me know. (Photo from Jonathan Wallace)

Why Gordon Brown will wait for a May 2008 General Election

I could be proven wrong here, but I’ve been coming to the conclusion that there is no way Gordon Brown will call a snap poll. What’s more, it has increasingly come to my mind that he might have a rather devious plan up his sleeve. First of all, he won’t do it for several reasons. Labour’s skint and the unions are being finnicky at the moment. Labour is also lazy - more so than either of their main opponents. They’re activists need more signposting than the competition before they’ll get off their arses. A snap poll is tough to manage ...

Capturing Ming

I tried to take photos of Ming Campbell at several events during conference - with some spectacularly bad results (scroll down to see a couple of the worst). Here he is facing the cameras as he made his way out at the very end. All week the media, especially the BBC, kept referring to the so-called 'leadership crisis', which according to them was the main topic of...

My intimate chat with Matthew Parris about fisking

Matthew Parris interviewed me on his Times podcast at Lib Dem conference. On the one hand I struggle a bit when explaining the term fisking; on the other hand they spared my blushes by not including the bit I totally fluffed talking about Ming. Not sure I should have said that the conference felt like a funeral at the start either. Oh God, I’m starting to worry about my media. How establishment! {:(} Share This

Enrollment

so im back here in lincoln just in time for uni to start. sometime this weekend i will blog about conference (it will probably be in two parts) but for now lets talk about uni. enrollment is usually the time for long ques in the sports hall, and thats how it was for my first year. a 9 o'clock enrollment time, the day after one of the Student Unions events (which meant that i was quite hungover), along with the 200-300 other students in the sports hall. to make matters worse the sports hall was boiling hot and the whole ...

Stanly Unwin explains Lib Dem policy on Europe

At the Glee Club on Wednesday night the Liberal Revue team - or a rather depleted subset of it - presented four sketches. Catherine Furlong appeared as Nigella Lawson, and I was involved in a Two Johns sketch and an episode of Roung the Ming. I also gave an explanation of our leader's policy on a European referendum in the guise of Professor Jonathan Calder: I have been asked – all polite and requesty – by Ming the Merciflold to explain to you our new polytito on the European Unibode.Though confdentimost, conference, if there’s a mercifold one in that marriage, ...

Supporting our Armed Services

I was delighted that the Lib Dems this week backed calls for our armed service personnel to be looked after better when they are injured. Not a moment too soon. Earlier in the year, I blogged about how more former Falklands conflict soliders had killed themselves than were killed in actual fighting in 1982. I was also disgusted to read about the awful conditions for our soliders in hospital when

Do not watch this: Lembit at the Glee Club

Jonathan Wallace has put a video of Lembit's execrable performance at the Glee Club in Brighton on Wednesday night. You don't know any Uzbek magnates who could be persuaded to have his site taken down do you?

Packaging lunacy

And today's rant is about GNER's on board catering. I have just been to the buffet car for a tea (a technical fault on the trolley means it's only serving cold drinks). I also wanted some fruit. All they had was sliced apple in a packet, a snip at just one pound fifty. Apart from the fact this is a seriously high price for a bit of apple, it is also absurdly over packaged. And add to that the

Daily Telegraph fails to report its own poll accurately - again

Crikey, there must be a curse on reports of YouGov polls. After this week’s Guardian blunder (saying that a YouGov poll showed the Liberal Democrat rating falling when, err…, it hadn’t) the Guardian at least had the excuse that it wasn’t its own poll that it was reporting. Credit though for correcting it the following day. So full marks in [...]

Fruit baskets and the Cowley St kitchen

I arrived in Cowley St this morning to find a gigantic basket of fruit in the kitchen. A present from Ming and Elspeth to us hard working staff who ensured conference went well. At 8pm Chris Rennard walked into my office and said that nearly all the fruit had gone despite there being far fewer people that normal in HQ. The Communications Unit had by then carefully removed all evidence of apple

Lembit performs

Tempted as I was to put this video on my blog I could not bring myself to do it. I have a reputation to defend you know.

Getting Nearer to Brussels

Eurostar has successfully completed its trial run from Brussels to St Pancras Station, London, in well under two hours. Normal fare-paying passengers will be able to take advantage of this service before the end of the year, meaning that the ‘Capital of Europe’ should henceforth be seen as accessible as Manchester or Liverpool. I’m always astounded by how many Londoners have never been to Brussels, however, or even considered going. I know it doesn’t have the grandeur or Paris, or the naughtinees of (far more distant) Amsterdam, but the Grand’Place and surrounding area are beautiful and there are artistic treasures dotted around ...

Latest Labour Homophobia

Warning! If you think Labour are cuddly bunnies turn your eyes away! Today’s judgement of Smith vs Grell (see other blogs) shows Miranda Grell smearing her Lib Dem opponent Barry Smith. I guess it’s a case of the evidence of residents and HER LABOUR RUNNING MATE against her. She did claim to say that Barry was with a 19 year old Thai `boy` (his partner is actually a 39-year old Malay man). Having travelled extensively Malay people are some of the nicest i’ve ever come across - so I would say he had great taste! Residents testified that she’d said ...

Who is the bad cop then ?

I found an interesting quote on the current state of the Lib Dem "blogosphere" on a rather nice blog called Our Kingdom which said. "Finally, if you want the sort of prolific output associated with, say, Iain Dale, try Paul Walter (http://paulwalter.blogspot.com/) or Nich Starling (http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/), a veritable Good Cop / Bad Cop double act. …and that’s only scratching the surface! ". Note, good cop and bad cop references. Unfortunately it appears I am the bad cop. I ought not to worry because in all those classic police buddy movies it is always the bad cop who is the flawed ...

Lembit Opik and his spectacular organ

Jonathan Wallace’s footage of Lembit playing the harmonica reminds me of my favourite pub wind up: Tell a fresh faced twenty-something that Lembit did the instrumental on Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon when it comes up on the jukebox. Believe me, it works every time. Share This

Liberal Democrat News: Calder at Conference

I have a column in today's Liberal Democrat News. It was written at an internet cafe in Brighton. Unfortunately, you cannot visit Craig Murray's website at the moment. But you can still buy his book. The joy of fame It can be dangerous to make generalisations about Conference. I remember sitting in the bar of the Metropole Hotel in Brighton one evening last year and chatting to a distinguished Liberal Democrat. We agreed there were more young people in the throng of Conference attenders than there used to be and that this was an encouraging sign for the party. Then ...

Boy (may have) died from lack of common sense in system (not Social Care)

This is a story which is unclear. The police are saying that training was needed. The problem is that if the evidence is that someone is somewhere under the water but the location is unclear then that would be the argument - not an absence of training. I think this is something which needs a bit of clarification. The initial story implied that common sense was being squeezed out. It is now

Friday 21 September Kingston Univeristy Freshers fair and Sowing the Seeds of Peace Event

I was fun popping back into Kingston Uni to say hello to new students and see what the clubs and societies have been up to. It a while since I was a student there by have fond memories of my time as a Sabbatical officer and I am now very proud to be a local councillor representing the University ward. A position I would not have attained if I had not been a past student so involved with the local...

Bontempi

What is the music that BBC Parliament are using for the title sequences of their conference coverage? John Shuttleworth lives!

Roll up roll up

Buy Murder in Samarkand before Schilling's slap a writ on Amazon. The deep irony is that while while Alisher Usmanov's lawyers are trying to shut down internet discussion in the middle of his purchase of Arsenal, you can still buy the book that it is all about from Amazon. So roll up and get your copy now! If Schilling's have a case they should sue Craig Murray over the book, not run round

Making the story fit the headline

Of you had seen the headlines earlier in the day on the internet and heard them on the radio you could have believed that "PCSO's watch boy drown" or "Boy drowns as PCSO's keep out of the water", or many other rather scurrilous headlines. As the day has moved on though we have heard rather more of this story and I have a real concern that the news headlines do not fit the story at all. In point of fact, the PCSO's arrived at the lake, a lake known locally by many other names, and upon their arrival they were ...

Blogging Conference

So what have I learnt from my first attempt to blog a Liberal Democrat conference? Well clearly, as can be seen from the lack of posts below, what I have learnt is that I can't! Ignoring the practical difficulties of queuing for a free machine in the conference centre Internet cafe (Conference Committee please, can we have some more computers next time?) and the wireless connection in my hotel

Another Asylum Seeker Hangs Himself in Hackney

I, along with other Turkish speaking councillors, have been invited to a meeting of all Turkish and Kurdish community centres, following the second hanging in 8 weeks of a Kurdish asylum seeker. People in these communities are deeply distressed. 24 year old Can Onel hanged himself in the same spot, in St John of Hackney Church, in Mare Street, where his friend 19 year old Orhan Kaya died 8 weeks earlier. Can Onel, who had been battling for 10 years for British citizenship, had dreamt of becoming a professional model, he spoke very good English, and lived with his father, ...

Unions: Having their Cake and Eating It

A few weeks ago, the TUC urged employers to allow access to social networking sites during office hours. Today, Unison have criticised (in fact arguably blamed the employers of council workers sacked for spending too much time on Ebay for "putting temptation in their way" by allowing internet access. It seems that unions really will adopt any line that produces a favourable outcome for particular employees. Perhaps that is their job, but it does little to enhance their credibility in the eyes of those who would seek to eradicate rights for employees.

Avenue Nursery

{Lynne Featherstone MP cutting the tape for the new playground} Off to Avenue Nursery to open their splendid new playground. Quite an amazing feat - given that all the concrete and building materials had to be brought in by hand by the builder. Previn seems to have decided that this would be done and done well and to time - and it was. A lovely little ceremony. Mary - the head of the nursery - told us the story of how the work was done and then two of the classes sang a special song for the occasion and individual ...

Miranda Grell: the verdict is in

Waltham Forest Labour councillor Miranda Grell has been found guilty of falsely smearing her Liberal Democrat opponent in the 2006 elections as a paedophile. She has been fined £1,000, ordered to pay £3,000 in costs and banned from public office for three years.

I can see!!!

Just got my hard contacts today, the difference they make is amazing! Before, it was illegal for me to drive because my vision was so bad and because of the condition I have glasses or soft lenses can't correct it to a decent standard. Now I have near 20/20 vision and the difference is astonishing, in fact I've been spending most of day reading far away words that before appeared as just oddly shaped blurs. Although these little lenses are a bit irritating the difference they make is well worth it, just in time for me to go off to ...

That Seet Enemy and our Eurocandidates

In early autumn a LibDems thoughts lightly turn to selection of EuroMP candidates. So many claims for support with my first preferences. For my part I hope that every aspirant has read ‘That Sweet Enemy’, a remarkable book about the relationship between France and Britain since the wars of the Sun King Louise XIV. If you want to understand how France sees the world in a different way to people of British tradition, and how this complicates and mediates the politics of the European Community. A hugely good read, not only a compendium of wars but also of changing cultural ...

Save Darfur

Liberal Democrats yesterday passed an emergency motion on the crisis in Darfur.

Usmanov vs Tim Ireland and Craig Murray

And Boris Johnson? (am I alone in finding that bit strange?) I’m sure you’ve seen this elsewhere and it should be obvious to you that I would come out defending free speech, but I thought I’d say something on the matter. Chicken Yoghurt seems to be the main guy with info on this. Duncan Borrowman also gives [...]

Back from Brighton – reality bites

After a fantastic week in Brighton, I set off home this morning feeling motivated and full of optimism. However, on boarding the train back to Birmingham, reality struck. A text from Colin Ross, with the results of the two by-elections we fought in the West Midlands this week. NUNEATON & BEDWORTH BC – Abbey ward LAB GAIN FROM LD LAB 807 BNP 457 LD 409 CON 329 GRN 115 IND 10 BIRMINGHAM CC – Brandwood ward LAB GAIN FROM CON LAB 1998 CON 1663 BNP 290 LD 285 GRN 193 IND 157 UKIP 64 NNP 25 I can’t decide what ...

A Strategy for Dealing with the Media

A big theme of my first vist to conference was the dawning realisation just how wide the gulf is between the real conference and the one in the media's parallel world. But something that intrigued me was looking at the Guardian's coverage. Each day, there would be a big article on leadership guff, more or less. But the stories that surrounded them were what caught my eye. It seems that, the more

Graham's blog entry 21 September 2007

What am I?

I have always pondered over what my ethnicity is when filling in forms. I was born on Teesside, my mother is Scottish, my father English, my great grandfather Irish, my great great great grandmother Spanish. I have a Polish surname by marriage and spent my early years growing up in Germany. Am I White English? No, not really. Am I White British? No, not really. Am I White European?...

Photo op photos

These were taken at the photo ops the Communications Unit arranged at conference for campaigners. I have taken the liberty (ego?) of including those of me except the carbon footprint one. I didn't get a photo of me with Chris Huhne so I have included one of Peter Maughan, who represents the neighbouring ward to my own and who was at conference on Sunday and Monday. I posted up the cutting

Election Results: Thursday 20th September 2007

Birmingham MBC, Brandwood Lab 1998 (42.7; +9.1), Con 1663 (35.6; -4.2), BNP 290 (6.2; -2.7), LD Brian Peace 285 (6.1; -4.9), Green 193 (4.1; -2.6), Ind 157 (3.4; +3.4), UKIP 64 (1.4; +1.4), New Nationalist Party 25 (0.5; +0.5). Majority 335. Turnout 26.2%. Lab gain from Con. Last fought 2007. Caerphilly UA, Moriah Lab 638 (73.5; -3.1), Ind 230 (26.5; +26.5), [PC (0.0; -23.4)]. Majority 408.

Woodside Family Centre

I recently visited a very special family centre in South Gloucestershire which provides services for children and adults who are deafblind or who have a single sensory impairment together with another disability. The Woodside Family Centre is funded by donations and is run by the charity Sense. The centre provides childrens' sessions for children of different ages as well as being a great place for families to support each other and share experiences. From talking to two lovely families who kindly came along to meet me (see picture), it sounds as though the pressures of caring for a child who ...

NEW POLL: Who do you think enjoyed the best conference?

Time for a new poll, wethinks. After a few days by the seaside the key question is: who had the brightest Brighton? Here are the candidates: Ming Campbell: swatted away the media-induced leadership speculation with a stirring end-of-conference speech; Nick Clegg: cannily steered through a potentially controversial motion proposing a selective amnesty for illegal immigrants, but then allowed [...]

Sudden rush of Tories condemning Tory proposals to close Warwick fire station.

In an earlier blog entry a couple of weeks ago, I pointed out the irony of Conservatives scaremongering about claims to close Warwick hospital whilst planning to close our fire station. Well, while I have been away at the conference in Brighton it seems the mail bags at our local newspaper has been packed with Tories condemning the decisions of the Tory run County Council. Conservative County Councillors have then responded by trying to blame the government and then accusing everyone (their own colleagues included I presume) of getting all political about the issue. The only sensible suggestion I have ...

LDV - the “establishment candidate”, apparently

The Guardian Backbencher has been distributing her Lib Dem conference awards, including: Best Blog Postings have been rather fewer than the Backbencher would have liked - though it may be down to a laudable reluctance to drink’n'blog. [Or the scarcity of computers in the internet café. - Ed] So the winner has to be the establishment candidate, [...]

JS Mill voted ‘Greatest Liberal’

John Stuart Mill has, perhaps inevitably, been acclaimed the ‘greatest British liberal of all time’, according to a poll conducted by the Liberal Democrat History Group. (Hat-tip: Jonathan Calder via Paul Walter). Duncan Brack, editor of the Journal of Liberal History, wrote about the contest last week on Lib Dem Voice, including brief profiles of the [...]

Is it cos I am a South Londoner?

That the heading on Fiyaz's blog makes me want to throw something at my computer screen!? I've had enough of a zone 1 mayor who ignores Outer London. God help us if we had one who only cares about Norf' of the river!

Alisher Usmanov

As reported all over the blogosphere now, several blogs have gone off line after Fasthosts pulled the plug on their server after receiving a letter from Schillings on behalf of their client, Uzbek-born oligarch Alisher Usmanov. So in the interests of free speech you can find cached versions of Craig Murray's original articles here. Pass it on... (there's strength in numbers)

Craig Murray and Tim Ireland: in solidarity

At the risk of not having anything particularly new or interesting to say, I thought I’d better add my voice to the growing throng condemning Alisher Usmanov’s successful bid to shut down Craig Murray and Tim Ireland. It illustrates the vulnerability the blogosphere has to punitive libel laws such as the ones we have in this country; similar action against a newspaper would be much more difficult (although legal action against a newspaper’s distributor has been attempted in the past). Many of us are hosted by small companies who are incredibly vulnerable to the merest threat of legal action. Does ...

Gordon Brown's crime shame

One of the main thrusts of my attack on the Government in my keynote speech at Brighton Conference was on corruption and how it provides support for extremists, comfort for terrorists and sucks away the money from the most needy in development terms. Needless to say, I raised the spectre of BAE and the dropping of the investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. The whole business stinks - and I am proud that the Lib Dems have led on exposing Labour and Tory hypocrisy on this. But today in the papers I see that the Labour government are now moving ...

A few photos from the Glee Club

I normally avoid the Glee Club at conference, but the opportunity to get some photos was too much to resist. So above: Lembit take to the stage; Paddy tells the same joke as previously told at Glee Clubs and Team Sedgefield serenades the gathered masses.

Photos of Ming's speech

These are some of the photos I took yesterday morning.

Lembit Opik MP at the Glee Club

For those of you fortunate enough to miss the Glee Club at conference on Wednesday, here's Lembit Opik's performance......

So when will PM call the GE?

BBC Newsnight are holding a contest on when the PM will call the next general election. Reprinted below, for your entertainment is my entry: My guess would be May 2009. But we should not have to guess, is not about time we had set parliaments of five year terms. Local government conforms to a set date each year, or every four years. I have no problem with voting on a weekend, although my heart goes out to political activists / foot soldiers that have to march through every housing estate begging people to vote early! Those who do not vote ...

My appearance in The Sun

So - back from the wilds of Brighton and the Liberal Democrat conference. Just a few 'tidy ups' as I was basically blogging by video diary. I didn't understand the reference at the time that the Chair, Jon Ball, made to me a one of the four Lib Dem Sun 'lovelies' when he introduced my keynote speech on Wednesday. Coming home - some kind person (!) has emailed me the link - and there I am with Jo Swinson (27), Julia Goldsworthy (29) and Kirsty Williams (36). Sadly - they do publish my age! Still - whereas I used to ...

Ming is "it"

As I foresaw, one of the advantages of having a media conference narrative of "leader on last legs", is that when the leader gives a half-way decent speech at the end, the media narrative then, with typical hysteria, turns turtle and majors on "leader rises from dead". But the media coverage is not all glowing and Ming's speech far exceeded the description "half-way decent". I always look

Was this the sound of the turning tide in brighton?

It seems revolution may just be in the air. Having yesterday dismissed Simon ‘Saul’ Carr, the Independent’s rather too jocular political columnist for his two dimensional reports on the state of the country’s parties and for his continual offhand dismissal of the mighty juggernaut (humour me…) that is the Liberal Democrats, it seems he was found kneeling in a shaft of golden sunlight on the Brighton seafront, that he stood up blinking, temporarily blinded after this momentous event, that he stumbled to Hove to have his sight restored at a watering hole and subsequently returned to Brighton to listen – ...

A Much Happier Liberal Democrat

I didn't vote for Ming in the Lib Dem leadership election. There were three good candidates though, so I was taken aback by Ming's shaky start as leader. By the the finish of his first conference speech last year I was getting worried - where had the calm authoritative critic of Iraq and Guantanamo gone? It seemed like Ming was trying too hard to be funny and polished and succeeding at neither.

Praise from the Tories!

Last night as I arrived at the Licencing Committee John Dyer, the esteemed Conservative Chairman of the Council, was sat chatting with some other Councillors. 'Ah' he said, beckoning me over,'I particularly enjoyed what you said at the planning Committee last night'. He was referring to the business of the five Townhouses to be built on the site of one cottage. Oh no, I thought, what have I missed? was there to be an affordable element?, what have I done?. But no, he just seemed to approve of me stopping high density developments. I never get any praise from my ...

Alishev Usmanov's Lawyers Read My Blog

I was interested to see on my blog stats this morning that Schilllings Ltd, the lawyers acting for Uzbek billionaire and would-be Arsenal owner Alisher Usmanov, have been reading my blog. They have also been reading many other blogs on a Google blogsearch for their client's name, which makes very informative reading... The root of all these stories are allegations made by Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, about Usmanov. I gather they are covered in Murray's book "Murder in Samarkand". Surely, Schillings Ltd, you should be advising your client to sue Murray for libel? That would be ...

Craig Murray's website and Bloggerheads taken down

The other day I praised Craig Murray and his website. So today I must point you to this from Chicken Yoghurt: Tim Ireland’s Bloggerheads site is currently down after his webhost pulled the plug. You can thank the latest Russian (that should be Uzbek) billionaire to reach the UK. The details will come out in due course. Tim’s currently also without email so if anyone needs to get hold of him, I’m happy to be the go-between and pass on any message by phone. My email address is at the top of the page. This also means that the family ...

Labour win three seats, BNP do far to well for my liking

Last night there were three by-elections in the West Midlands, all very good reading for Labour and bad reading for the Liberal Democrats and the those that don't like the BNP.

Mark Oaten and Lib-Lab co-operation

A couple of weeks ago Mark Oaten had an article in The Times which floated the idea of a Lib Dem/Conservative pact. Or at least it was dressed up by the paper as though it did. Now he has written for Fabian Review: Lib Dem Mark Oaten says there are some persuasive arguments for Lib-Lab co-operation, but there are some big stumbling blocks.It begins to look as though Mark Oaten is more interested in promoting Mark Oaten than in persuading the party to adopt a particular strategy.The article is not online, but you can read Sunder Katwala's call for the ...

Scratching the surface

Monmouth MP David Davies has done it again. He has single-handedly dissed the consensus that was building up around the further devolution of powers to the Welsh Assembly and opened up a significant rift within the Welsh Conservative Party that may haunt them for years to come. Having spent eight years learning his trade in the Welsh Assembly, David has finally and publicly made it clear that he was sitting there under false pretences. He had tried to make it work (really?) but at the end of the day he could never get past his view that it cost a ...

Lord Bonkers' introduction to the Liberator songbook

As ever, there was a new Liberator songbook on sale at the Brighton Conference. Someone asked if it wouldn't be greener of us to encourage people to use last year's book. In our defence, we pointed out that we do recycle the songs. One thing that certainly was new this year was Lord Bonkers' introduction: Bonkers Hall Rutland Tel: Rutland 7 Those of us who have long fostered links between Liberalism and the world of popular music were cheered by the news of Lembit Öpik's engagement to the Cheeky Girls.And what jolly girls they are! Because they jiggle about so, ...

Ming Campbell's speech

It seems I missed a treat through my selfless decision to stay and guard the Liberator stall yesterday. Incidentally, whatever happened to the live TV relay of proceedings from the hall that we used to get in the stalls area? Anyway, you can find the full text of the speech on ePolitix. And Liberal Democrat Voice has summaries of the reaction from the press and from Lib Dem bloggers.

Janet Street-Porter wants a knee trembler. Apparently.

Tonight's Question Time came from Brighton, where, amongst others was Paddy, looking, to my mind, noticeably laid back whilst John Redwood made unfounded and ridiculous predictions of a "big tax shock" from the Lib Dems. Frankly Redwood was just nauseating in his slimy disingenuous hypocrisy throughout. But anyway, what really had me wanting to throw things at the TV was a "young person"

Reinventing the State Chapter 1: What is social liberalism?

Reinventing the state is the natural counterpart to the orange book which I considered here. In chapter 1, David Howarth questions what social liberalism is, in particular whether it is in opposition to economic liberalism, or a complement to it. Howarth argues that economic liberals are those with a preference for market mechanisms as a means to achieving social liberal goals over,

Bored of Brown

I’m bored of Brown - he is only talking about motherhood and apple pie issues like Zimbabwe. Why doesn’t he lead? Why doesn’t he tell us what the objectives on Iraq are? I asked this on Outeverywhere.com - nu labour apologists just say it’s an evolving policy! This same person said that the US are very twitchy about us having cold feet! It’s our f***ing armed forces for crying out loud. I feel like going down to Whitehall and illegally protesting.

Tooth Review: 1555 (obligatory spoiler warning)

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