I’m sure most of you will have already played with the the FT’s online deficit buster. So too has Adam Boulton, but when he asked Mandy to give some of his own brutal preferences, he got a prolonged smackdown, culminating in the undeniable “neither the IFS nor the FT are standing in this election”. The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Liberal Democrats’
26 Apr
Astle-Finkelstein debate on the implications of the LibDem surge
My collage Julian has been arguing with Danny Finkelstein about what the Lib Dem surge might mean.
24 Apr
‘Killing the Labour party’
I doubt I will make many friends here by linking with some measured approval to this Matthew Parris column, which may be partly wishful, but surely contains some true insights. Discussing Brown’s ‘moronic’ remark about Clegg being ‘Anti American’, Parris writes: The expression that briefly stalked the Liberal Democrat leader’s normally bland face, however, betrayed [...]
23 Apr
Favourite post debate analyses
Phil Stephens video (FT): Gordon Brown becoming irrelevant, which is extraordinary; Clegg keeping post 1st debate position, also extraordinary Robert Shrimsley (FT Blog): One of the most LibDem positive things I’ve ever read: David Cameron is not in trouble because he lost the first debate. He lost the first debate because he was already in [...]
22 Apr
In praise of Iain Dale
No, I’m not stalking him. Two posts in two days is not stalking, alright? But this is fine.
21 Apr
Podcast: another quick observation
Dan Roberts and I argued at greater length than is eventually broadcast, about whether the LibDems are introducing too much complexity into the tax system with their 10k proposal. Dan’s argument was, effectively: doing this makes it a nightmare for journalists, commentators and those putting the manifesto under the spotlight, to work out whether it [...]
19 Apr
What’s going on
(apologies to those of you who arrived at this site expecting something about a Marvin Gaye record. You will be bitterly disappointed). This graph demonstrates cat out of the bag, Google-style: I had worried slightly that my dismissal of the Conservative dismissal of the Lib Dems was underproven (i.e. a big sulky exaggeration). Perhaps, instead, [...]
18 Apr
Latest CiF piece: the outrage of the entitled
Here it is (I’m not sure about the title). If you want more examples of the appalling arrogance of those who felt that 22% of the vote did not earn a party the right to media representation, here is Tim Montgomerie 6 months ago; very prescient, is the only lukewarm praise I can give him. [...]
18 Apr
Backlash watch
It is simultaneously fun and repulsive reading the hysterical reactions to the LibDem surge. I haven’t even turned on my Bloglines account to read Guido, Dale, CoffeeHouse et al. My better-edited reaction will be online with a newspaper in a few hours; the theme is how the Tory reaction reveals their nauseating sense of entitlement [...]
16 Apr
Clearing out my webtabs
By which I mean: stuff that is really interesting, that I had been saving for some wonderfully themed blog, and then lost the will. It’s all dumped here. Ed Conway has written a post I was hoping to: Hung parliament risk rises. Markets say So What I have not commented on Nick’s great performance last [...]
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