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Peter Oborne: Cameron is Looking for Chumps to Cross the Floor, even Mandy
THIS is a good spot by Lord Dale in The Daily Mail- which LoL rarely browses. Oborne outlines his impressions of the putative poaching and plotting of dopey Cameron's collective of cocky toffs and self-serving self-made men. 
Oborne explains that Peter Mandelson will be more confident of the endorsement of DC than of GB and may therefore cosy up to DC and hope for an early election, before his 2009 renewal. He will also be hoping, argues Oborne, that Labour loses and that his third major political invention - 1. New Labour; 2. Tony Blair; 3. Dave/id Cameron - keeps him in the ladles of euro-gravy to which he is accustomed.
This is all very sad. That Oborne can even troll along the lines that all these parties - or their heads at least - are in the very same place is sad enough. Hearts and pavement founding feet remain almost as far apart as ever. That he is looking like a betting man with positions in 2009 election, Mandy to continue, various defections this year etc etc is even sadder.
Political betting has grown up into quite a beastie. Can we expect some City Slicker/Piers Morgan/Viglen style fall outs as punter pundits use their Op-Ed opportunities to improve their own bets?
6 comments:
You always make such a big deal of slagging the Lib Dems BUT at least their leader is not a neo-con.
Hello Minger How on earth can anyone tell whether W Menzies Campbell is a neo con or not?
As the ex-Leader of Oldham Council (Lib Dem) said when the scoundrels were booted out:
"When we were in opposition we could say anything and do nothing. When we are in power we get found out as useless apolitical incompetents and craven political opportunists" Or something like that.
The next time I get a vote for the leader of my party I'll be an optimist hoping for the opportunity to vote for someone who is not a neo-con but is prepared to lead and make hard decisions. I suggest you do the same, whatever party or tendancy you're actually from.
My story does not slag off Lib Dems, it actually slags off a Labour neo-con and some Tory neo-cons if you care to read it.
Meanwhile Oborne does suggest that some of the Lib Dems belong in the Tory Party and it is certainly the case that the new liberal economics now favoured by the leadership of all three parties is something the Libs would in a rare honest moment claim to have written the book on.
Enough responding to trolls already.
Racist!
Thanks "Troll", but I tapped "troll". This is a term - possibly derived from the angling term for dragging a lure along the darkest depths to get the bottom feeding pond-life excited and hooked.
Or possibly from its use in Multi User Dungeons or Multi Object Orientated spaces (MUDs and MOOs) where big T Trolls were as TJ sang not unusual and Here Be Dragons was the watchword.
I think the former myself.
It has also come to be used for violent sexual harrassment in cyberspace as in Dibbell's 1993 case of Rape in Cyberspace.
That alleged event occurred in the fantastical MUD at The University of Virginia LambdaMOO frequented by all the big fish in the cyberpond.
Including Laurie Anderson who spookily had a working meeting with LoL before her Green Room tour performance at Apollo and was shown a proposal which included using that very MOO, said nothing on that but was seriously interested in the project (which may yet occur, sometimes these things have a long gestation, Laurie is going to soon be Patron Saint of Arts at University of Salford), but she later projected the very URL with her home there in her own excellent show.
Enough of the name dropping.
Anyway, no offence to any Trolls in the readership. It's 'troll' from the angling term to hook, battle and reel in bottom feeding pond life. The canny fish obviously catch on quick and stay away.
The administrator at AtheMoo (hosted in Hawaii) named me "Zippy" which was a biting satirical reference to my IT skills all those years ago.
So Rape in Cyberspace is entertainment!!
On a blog primarily concerned with an all women parliamentary selection.
Did I say it was entertainment? That was education. And the Dibbell paper is a classic.
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