tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post8118096301948339376..comments2024-01-11T10:25:57.007+00:00Comments on Labour of Gove: Tony Clarke Non-Story: Ex-MP "Sacked by Text" a Bit AgoChris Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-72609160667434495572007-10-26T15:49:00.000+01:002007-10-26T15:49:00.000+01:00Yes Matthew I agree about the substance. Goodness ...Yes Matthew I agree about the substance. <BR/><BR/>Goodness knows I've witnessed a few issues in let's say Bobbins CLP and Muppet BLP and Feckwit LGC over panels, shortlisting, selection and so on. <BR/><BR/>I got called for blogging one selection and it turned out that the "offensive" remarks were all coming from councillors, officers, agents, employees possibly posting under pseodnyms or as anonymous. <BR/><BR/>It is of course also possible that those from other parties join in and make mischief when the crowd decides anonymous or sock puppetry is acceptable.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-61576176542594953612007-10-26T12:12:00.000+01:002007-10-26T12:12:00.000+01:00It's interesting that Tony Clarke and his supporte...It's interesting that Tony Clarke and his supporters post under their own names and the ones who slag him off are all anonymous including one who calls Clarke "spineless". It seems that the Regional Office was bending the rules to select its favourite(s). I wouldn't say it's parochial, though it may have happened a while ago. It's symptomatic of the way party officials will intervene in a sectarian manner.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-62218278681337318322007-10-25T23:40:00.000+01:002007-10-25T23:40:00.000+01:00David B: it was noticeable that the Tories ditched...David B: it was noticeable that the Tories ditched their candidate to secure their success. Rather like the Lib Dems ditching Yasmin Zalzala ahead of their win in Man Wit.<BR/><BR/>Is Clarke planning to stand as an indie in Northampton South Parliamentary? Have the boundary changes been kind to this part of the Midlands?<BR/><BR/>Farther north I had a chat with Ken Clarke a few months ago in a field somewhere in Rushcliffe. He was dying for a smoke but was at a health event. Kept trying to leave ... amusing ... anyway he reckoned that Mercer had got the talisman villages now. Ones that were always in Tory hands whichever constituency they happened to be in. He had lost them.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-26966241796326093042007-10-25T23:35:00.000+01:002007-10-25T23:35:00.000+01:00Anonymous 23:31 Grell is obviously NOT the story t...Anonymous 23:31 Grell is obviously <I>NOT</I> the story today. But I have posted something at the last post, and I have something else lined up for another day. Perhaps even tomorrow. But in the meantime you can cover whatever you want on your own blog.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-68750376269806470742007-10-25T23:31:00.000+01:002007-10-25T23:31:00.000+01:00Never mind this bollocks, it's Grels that's the st...Never mind this bollocks, it's Grels that's the story.<BR/><BR/>What's our Labour Party apparatchik's take on this nasty piece of work?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-89692154106944616812007-10-25T23:24:00.000+01:002007-10-25T23:24:00.000+01:00At the time that Clarke was re-elected in 2001 wit...At the time that Clarke was re-elected in 2001 with a similarly knife-edge result, many Conservatives attacked him implicitly for being a racist because the Tory candidate happened to be Shailesh Vara. I wonder if any of today's faux-angry Tory bloggers were among them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com