Labour of Gove: Grant Shapps: This Has Got to be the Key Crewe Quote

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Blunder expert Mr Shapps said, Friday pm, live on ~~Channel 4~~Newsnight:

The Conservatives are now the party of opportunism

Ted Foan said...: Unless he made the same verbal slip twice (immediately corrected to "... the party of opportunity") I heard this so-called blunder on News Night on BBC 2 last night. (The two MPs from the LibDems and Labour sniggered, of course and Shapps seemed to blush a little - do you think he looks a bit like Tony Blair?)

So I am not sure your "source" was right about Channel 4 News.

Minor point, perhaps, but it's always best to get your facts right, isn't Chris?; 25 May, 2008 00:15
Chris Paul said...: Thanks Diablo, I think you are right on both counts:

It's not really a blunder, it's the truth
And it was indeed on Newsnight

My source being my own eyes and ears and my own memory I will now take myself to task.; 25 May, 2008 00:27
Ted Foan said...: Don't be too hard on yourself, young fella. It's been known to make people blind - to the bleedin' obvious, that is!

Whoops! Too late you've already done the damage by years of supporting the Labour Party.; 25 May, 2008 01:08
Chris Paul said...: But the Tory Party IS the party of opportunism! Now out-doing their yellow cousins in some parts of the country. I'm still waiting for any sort of explanation of the horrid tie up with Hizb_ut-Tahrir in the next ward to me. Opportunism, communalism, threats and lies.; 25 May, 2008 12:30

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