The LibDem leadership race is dragging on for another fortnight. Guido put a large bet on Clegg immediately after Ming's election, assuming that Clegg was the heir, because he seemed appealingly telegenic and modernising.
Throughout this leadership contest Guido has however reduced his exposure to Clegg. It has to be said that Huhne, who has a limited likeability factor as a human, is a better campaigner. He has positioned himself on the clitoris of the activist base, painted Clegg as inept, lightweight and Cameron-in-yellow. He has also smartly jumped on Donorgate to put himself in the news. All in all, he has shown the ruthless determination of a politician who wants to win.
If he wins it will put the LibDems in the position the Tories were in under IDS. Universally derided as he was by the end of his leadership, people forget that IDS had activist adoration for his traditional Conservative views and hard line on Europe. The parliamentary Tory party was dismayed that they were saddled with IDS. Huhne has tacked left to appeal to the LibDem activists, who are far to the left of their parliamentarians and the party establishment machine.
Guido thinks it would be strategically better for the Tories to have Clegg as a leader, despite the fears that he will compete for Cameron's votes. The most likely outcome of a general election is still a hung parliament. Clegg will be more amenable to a deal with the Tories. Guido is also beginning to wonder if Clegg might actually be a weaker campaigner than Huhne.
Throughout this leadership contest Guido has however reduced his exposure to Clegg. It has to be said that Huhne, who has a limited likeability factor as a human, is a better campaigner. He has positioned himself on the clitoris of the activist base, painted Clegg as inept, lightweight and Cameron-in-yellow. He has also smartly jumped on Donorgate to put himself in the news. All in all, he has shown the ruthless determination of a politician who wants to win.
If he wins it will put the LibDems in the position the Tories were in under IDS. Universally derided as he was by the end of his leadership, people forget that IDS had activist adoration for his traditional Conservative views and hard line on Europe. The parliamentary Tory party was dismayed that they were saddled with IDS. Huhne has tacked left to appeal to the LibDem activists, who are far to the left of their parliamentarians and the party establishment machine.
Guido thinks it would be strategically better for the Tories to have Clegg as a leader, despite the fears that he will compete for Cameron's votes. The most likely outcome of a general election is still a hung parliament. Clegg will be more amenable to a deal with the Tories. Guido is also beginning to wonder if Clegg might actually be a weaker campaigner than Huhne.
29 comments:
"Clitoris of the activist base"
I lost half of my brew when I read that part! However I'm sure you're not the first to equate the Lib Dem's with pussies.
Given that, do you prefer to limit, or to maximize your exposure?
raincoaster
John Darwin the canoeist is really an innocent plant of Gay Gordo's. He we probably snaffled up five years ago and then held until Gordo needed a smokescreen. That is why he was unceromoniously dumped in London at the weekend. The only remaining question is did the Insurance money go to funding Labour?
Guido, the LibDems will never do a deal with the Tories. The only reason they exist is to live long enough to get a hung Parliament and screw PR out of a desperate Labour leader.
You read it here last.
I think the best outcome would be a narrow Clegg win. His leadership would be crippled from the start, with a 'king over the water' and all his weaknesses brutally exposed in this campaign.
On the Beeb website politics comments page, out of 7,500 comments submitted on Donorgate, nearly 2,000 are still awaiting moderation.
I bet NuLiebor are hopping mad that there aren't more queuing because most are anti!
Peter Grimes
" He has positioned himself on the clitoris of the activist base "
hm , I snorted into my morning tea when I read that
----still trying to grapple with the implications -------
Huhne is most impressive in the TV studio. Tough focused articulate in a way that Cameron is not. He does not do charm/smile. Treated Jon Snow as one would a labrador puppy. Formidable. For Cameron's sake I hope its Clegg.
If Cleggie wanted to win why would he be in the LibDems?
IDS - adoration from Tory activists? Surely his win was far more an anti-Clarke vote than a pro-IDS one.
There won't be a hung parliament as long as Gorgon is leading the Labour Party. If they keep im in place the polls will just get worse and worse. The limp dems have to decide if they are going to make the mistake of that drunk Kennedy and go after Tory seats at a time when Tories are resurgent, or if they are going to do the smart thing and pounce on Labour in the hope of becoming the party of choice for the left. In any case, I can't see Labour uniting with the Limp Dems in a hung Parliament after the Vince Cable hatchet job on Gorgons economy.
clitoris of the activist base? I bet he doesn't even know what one is
Can't help laughing really....... does it matter who Leb Dims have as a leader?
Haven't they got more past leaders than MPs now?
LibDems apart, the one thing that would have me reaching for the cyanide is any situation where the ghastly Miliband became PM. Behind the Donny Osmond grin lurks an extremely dangerous mind. Not only would he bang the last nail in the British coffin but he'd lower it into the hole and heap the last sods on top.
Yep, you need to be a bit careful around that particular clitoris. All sorts of interesting diseases there - some of them actually known to modern medicine.
Rubber gloves, dental dams, and large quantities of Penicillin (injected and topical) are de rigueur.
Rickytshirt said...
"Clitoris of the activist base"
I lost half of my brew when I read that part! However I'm sure you're not the first to equate the Lib Dem's with pussies.
Substitute 'anus horribilis' for the hooded prawn and you're getting there!
Got a reply back from the BBC.They accept I feel that rules were not broken but that 'Law rules' !!?? were broken.This will be noted,lol.I 'feel' and told them that LAWS were broken.NOT 'law rules'(whatever the hell they are).I think they're on drugs.It is factually correct to say that laws were broken when laws are broken,surely.
Lib Dem activist base & the clitoris: both pink, wet and hard to find for the uninitiated.
"Clitoris of the activist base"
Rather than spluttering my coffee, I ended up inhaling some of it. It hurts.
Rickytshirt said...
"Lib Dem activist base & the clitoris: both pink, wet and hard to find for the uninitiated."
I forgot beard-sporting, sometimes slightly crusty with a distinctive odour.
Sorry, brew drinkers.
Problem is, the lib dems dont stand for anything much that the other two paties cover already.
its only image that separates them!
and their immage?
complete surrender to Europe and open the boarders to the entire third world! what insane person would vote for that?
oh too late Labour and its voting sheep beat them to it!
one party - three heads, all sucking from the EU socialist tit that will keep them nice and sar - cozy when they retire while they send the troops in on the rest of us should we not want to play ball!
baaa baaa
clitoris of the activist base
Just bitten through the wires on my headset.
Nick Clegg?...wasn't he in Coronation Street?
"Nick Clegg?...wasn't he in Coronation Street?"
No, it was Last of the Summer Wine, with Foggy and Compo.
[Clegg] "has positioned himself on the clitoris of the activist base"
Whilst Huhne works over the perineum, and Simon Hughes busies himself with the sphincter.
Bleeeughghh!
It was Gordon Clegg who was in Coronation Street. Not to be confused with Nick Brown.
An apt analogy.
Huhne tickles the Lib Dems' clitoris, while Clegg just fucks them right up the ass.
*yawn*
Why not that Cable bloke instead of either of these muppets. For a politician, he bears a remarkable resemblance to a human being.
That probably disqualifies him - androids rule!
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