Comments on: This is politics calling Nick Clegg, is there anyone there? http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/10/29/this-is-politics-calling-nick-clegg-is-there-anyone-there/ Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:34:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Candid http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/10/29/this-is-politics-calling-nick-clegg-is-there-anyone-there/#comment-4234 Candid Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:16:13 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=1270#comment-4234 Poor cleggy...what's he ever done to you? Actually I'd rather end that sentence after done. I do sometimes find myself in sympathy with Lib Dem policies but I don't hear about them any more. If the Liberals had a dynamic leader they really could profit from all this mess. Profit really is a dirty word these days!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4234','Candid'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4234','Candid','Poor cleggy...what\'s he ever done to you? Actually I\'d rather end that sentence after done. I do sometimes find myself in sympathy with Lib Dem policies but I don\'t hear about them any more. If the Liberals had a dynamic leader they really could profit from all this mess. Profit really is a dirty word these days!'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Poor cleggy…what’s he ever done to you? Actually I’d rather end that sentence after done. I do sometimes find myself in sympathy with Lib Dem policies but I don’t hear about them any more. If the Liberals had a dynamic leader they really could profit from all this mess. Profit really is a dirty word these days!
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]]> By: Darrell http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/10/29/this-is-politics-calling-nick-clegg-is-there-anyone-there/#comment-4233 Darrell Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:21:56 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=1270#comment-4233 I think you are being a wee bit harsh there Letters...Clegg has been about and there is a substantial amount of media narrative out there in favour of tax cuts. Of course, you would expect me to say that as a Lib Dem but hey-ho.... It's probably true that Vince Cable is leading the charge....<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4233','Darrell'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4233','Darrell','I think you are being a wee bit harsh there Letters...Clegg has been about and there is a substantial amount of media narrative out there in favour of tax cuts. Of course, you would expect me to say that as a Lib Dem but hey-ho....\n\nIt\'s probably true that Vince Cable is leading the charge....'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> I think you are being a wee bit harsh there Letters…Clegg has been about and there is a substantial amount of media narrative out there in favour of tax cuts. Of course, you would expect me to say that as a Lib Dem but hey-ho….

It’s probably true that Vince Cable is leading the charge….

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]]> By: Shaun Pilkington http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/10/29/this-is-politics-calling-nick-clegg-is-there-anyone-there/#comment-4232 Shaun Pilkington Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:48:04 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=1270#comment-4232 I know, LFAT, I was just amused the Supermarket he name-checked while moaning about his relative poverty is one linked to the firm where all the MPs used to splurge our money on approved items. The Lords allowance is a funny thing - it was like a pension for the elderly 'worthy' - you turned up to a comfortable environment, got paid for your trouble and ate subsidised food while not actually being obligated to do very much at all, if anything, beyond turn up and get paid. I hope when I'm old, my care-home is as good as that!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4232','Shaun Pilkington'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4232','Shaun Pilkington','I know, LFAT, I was just amused the Supermarket he name-checked while moaning about his relative poverty is one linked to the firm where all the MPs used to splurge our money on approved items.\n\nThe Lords allowance is a funny thing - it was like a pension for the elderly \'worthy\' - you turned up to a comfortable environment, got paid for your trouble and ate subsidised food while not actually being obligated to do very much at all, if anything, beyond turn up and get paid.\n\nI hope when I\'m old, my care-home is as good as that!'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> I know, LFAT, I was just amused the Supermarket he name-checked while moaning about his relative poverty is one linked to the firm where all the MPs used to splurge our money on approved items.

The Lords allowance is a funny thing – it was like a pension for the elderly ‘worthy’ – you turned up to a comfortable environment, got paid for your trouble and ate subsidised food while not actually being obligated to do very much at all, if anything, beyond turn up and get paid.

I hope when I’m old, my care-home is as good as that!

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]]> By: Letters From A Tory http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/10/29/this-is-politics-calling-nick-clegg-is-there-anyone-there/#comment-4231 Letters From A Tory Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:15:06 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=1270#comment-4231 Urban man, it seems that - just like Nick Clegg - you are struggling to stay on topic. Shaun, I'm sure almost every single MP has used their allowance to pay for some grub at some point. The House of Lords get a daily allowance just for food which is (a) very generous, and (b) claimed by almost every single one of them.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4231','Letters From A Tory'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4231','Letters From A Tory','Urban man, it seems that - just like Nick Clegg - you are struggling to stay on topic.\n\nShaun, I\'m sure almost every single MP has used their allowance to pay for some grub at some point. The House of Lords get a daily allowance just for food which is (a) very generous, and (b) claimed by almost every single one of them.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Urban man, it seems that – just like Nick Clegg – you are struggling to stay on topic.

Shaun, I’m sure almost every single MP has used their allowance to pay for some grub at some point. The House of Lords get a daily allowance just for food which is (a) very generous, and (b) claimed by almost every single one of them.

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]]> By: Urban man http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/10/29/this-is-politics-calling-nick-clegg-is-there-anyone-there/#comment-4230 Urban man Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:29:07 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=1270#comment-4230 I apologise for wandering O/T but have just read that in the latest edition of Total Politics, Sir Alan Beith discusses his memoirs. I am practically inarticulate with rage. How DARE someone as defiantly devoid of interest as Alan "Little Alan" Beith write his memoirs? He is so colourless, he is regarded as a non-entity even within his non-event of a party. To paraphrase Michael Heseltine, if he looks like a railway porter, sounds like a railway porter and wags his tail like a railway porter, then he is a railway porter, not an international statesman who hides his light beneath a bushel. Truly, he could bore the buzzards off a dustcart. The publishers might as well just have chopped down a couple of trees, sliced them, decanted them into a remainder bin and saved him the bother of putting his mind-curdlingly dreary recollections down on paper. Silly little man. What an outrage. What are they called, these memoirs, "My Struggle"? Clear off, Alan Beith, you waste of space.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4230','Urban man'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4230','Urban man','I apologise for wandering O\/T but have just read that in the latest edition of Total Politics, Sir Alan Beith discusses his memoirs. I am practically inarticulate with rage.\n\nHow DARE someone as defiantly devoid of interest as Alan \"Little Alan\" Beith write his memoirs?\n\nHe is so colourless, he is regarded as a non-entity even within his non-event of a party. To paraphrase Michael Heseltine, if he looks like a railway porter, sounds like a railway porter and wags his tail like a railway porter, then he is a railway porter, not an international statesman who hides his light beneath a bushel.\n\nTruly, he could bore the buzzards off a dustcart.\n\nThe publishers might as well just have chopped down a couple of trees, sliced them, decanted them into a remainder bin and saved him the bother of putting his mind-curdlingly dreary recollections down on paper. Silly little man.\n\nWhat an outrage. What are they called, these memoirs, \"My Struggle\"?\n\nClear off, Alan Beith, you waste of space.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> I apologise for wandering O/T but have just read that in the latest edition of Total Politics, Sir Alan Beith discusses his memoirs. I am practically inarticulate with rage.

How DARE someone as defiantly devoid of interest as Alan “Little Alan” Beith write his memoirs?

He is so colourless, he is regarded as a non-entity even within his non-event of a party. To paraphrase Michael Heseltine, if he looks like a railway porter, sounds like a railway porter and wags his tail like a railway porter, then he is a railway porter, not an international statesman who hides his light beneath a bushel.

Truly, he could bore the buzzards off a dustcart.

The publishers might as well just have chopped down a couple of trees, sliced them, decanted them into a remainder bin and saved him the bother of putting his mind-curdlingly dreary recollections down on paper. Silly little man.

What an outrage. What are they called, these memoirs, “My Struggle”?

Clear off, Alan Beith, you waste of space.

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]]> By: Shaun Pilkington http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/10/29/this-is-politics-calling-nick-clegg-is-there-anyone-there/#comment-4229 Shaun Pilkington Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:51:38 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=1270#comment-4229 Hmm too posh for Tescos, eh? Oh wait, aren't ocado part of John Lewis? Did he used to get his food on 'the List'? The people have a right to know!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4229','Shaun Pilkington'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4229','Shaun Pilkington','Hmm too posh for Tescos, eh? Oh wait, aren\'t ocado part of John Lewis? Did he used to get his food on \'the List\'? The people have a right to know!'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Hmm too posh for Tescos, eh? Oh wait, aren’t ocado part of John Lewis? Did he used to get his food on ‘the List’? The people have a right to know!
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]]> By: Letters From A Tory http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/10/29/this-is-politics-calling-nick-clegg-is-there-anyone-there/#comment-4228 Letters From A Tory Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:45:41 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=1270#comment-4228 Or maybe he is still looking for a suitable disguise for him to wear when he shops at Sainsburys. God forbid someone might see him or any other MP shopping in such an awful establishment.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4228','Letters From A Tory'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4228','Letters From A Tory','Or maybe he is still looking for a suitable disguise for him to wear when he shops at Sainsburys. God forbid someone might see him or any other MP shopping in such an awful establishment.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Or maybe he is still looking for a suitable disguise for him to wear when he shops at Sainsburys. God forbid someone might see him or any other MP shopping in such an awful establishment.
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]]> By: Shaun Pilkington http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/10/29/this-is-politics-calling-nick-clegg-is-there-anyone-there/#comment-4227 Shaun Pilkington Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:06:14 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=1270#comment-4227 Maybe our Nick is off making sure his own investments are safe...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4227','Shaun Pilkington'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4227','Shaun Pilkington','Maybe our Nick is off making sure his own investments are safe...'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Maybe our Nick is off making sure his own investments are safe…
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]]> By: Letters From A Tory http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/10/29/this-is-politics-calling-nick-clegg-is-there-anyone-there/#comment-4226 Letters From A Tory Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:34:10 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=1270#comment-4226 It's bizarre, isn't it. Can you imagine Gordon Brown letting Darling steal the spotlight?!?! Like that would ever happen. Shadow Chancellors should certainly add credibility to the proceedings but Cable has usurped Clegg's position as the spokesman on the most serious issue facing this country in years. I wonder if this was a conscious decision by the Lib Dem leadership, given Cable's past performances at PMQs when he hit Brown hard?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4226','Letters From A Tory'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4226','Letters From A Tory','It\'s bizarre, isn\'t it. Can you imagine Gordon Brown letting Darling steal the spotlight?!?! Like that would ever happen. Shadow Chancellors should certainly add credibility to the proceedings but Cable has usurped Clegg\'s position as the spokesman on the most serious issue facing this country in years.\n\nI wonder if this was a conscious decision by the Lib Dem leadership, given Cable\'s past performances at PMQs when he hit Brown hard?'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> It’s bizarre, isn’t it. Can you imagine Gordon Brown letting Darling steal the spotlight?!?! Like that would ever happen. Shadow Chancellors should certainly add credibility to the proceedings but Cable has usurped Clegg’s position as the spokesman on the most serious issue facing this country in years.

I wonder if this was a conscious decision by the Lib Dem leadership, given Cable’s past performances at PMQs when he hit Brown hard?

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]]> By: John Ward http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/10/29/this-is-politics-calling-nick-clegg-is-there-anyone-there/#comment-4225 John Ward Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:26:16 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=1270#comment-4225 I notice that Clegg appears to have left his party's input on this topic entirely to Vince Cable, thus playing the card of his most popular (especially in the media) frontbencher who also happens to be the spokesman on finance and the economy. With Labour it's Brown and some Darling, with the Conservatives it's Cameron and Osborne, but with the LibDems it's just Cable...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4225','John Ward'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4225','John Ward','I notice that Clegg appears to have left his party\'s input on this topic entirely to Vince Cable, thus playing the card of his most popular (especially in the media) frontbencher who also happens to be the spokesman on finance and the economy.\n\nWith Labour it\'s Brown and some Darling, with the Conservatives it\'s Cameron and Osborne, but with the LibDems it\'s just Cable...'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> I notice that Clegg appears to have left his party’s input on this topic entirely to Vince Cable, thus playing the card of his most popular (especially in the media) frontbencher who also happens to be the spokesman on finance and the economy.

With Labour it’s Brown and some Darling, with the Conservatives it’s Cameron and Osborne, but with the LibDems it’s just Cable…

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