EXCLUSIVE : Sam Coates of ConservativeHome Hired as Cameron Speechwriter
It will be announced later this afternoon that Sam Coates, deputy editor of the influential ConservativeHome website is to become Dave's deputy speechwriter.The appointment of the social conservative will be seen as reassuring to the right of the party where Sam is seen as a promising and sound voice. There was a lot of competition for the vacancy created by Danny Kruger leaving. Presumably there will be a lot of competition for the vacancy he will leave at ConservativeHome...
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It's not looking good for Mrs Dale's friend, Caroline.
Caroline Spelman left twisting in the wind
"She isn't answering her phone to journalists, is virtually anonymous in Westminster, and is generally keeping a low profile until she finds out whether or not she's a gonner."
How can she be the Chairman of the Conservative party when she behaves like that?
"In fact, the inquiry is now likely to drag on long past the summer and well into conference season, with Tory insiders predicting Spelman may be left twisting in the wind until October."
Why is it taking so long to ask the nanny if she worked as Spelman's constituency secretary?
Dave has made a mistake on this one, the Conservatives effectively have no chairman. He should have sacked her as soon as it became apparent that the Nanny never was a full time secretary. It's going to be rather awkward at the Tory conference if she is still being investigated.
"There was a lot of competition for the vacancy created by anny Kruger leaving"
Kruger had a sex change?
he's about 15. do you honestly think he'll have any influence? come on guido, stop believing the hype of these power-worshipping carpet-baggers. you'll need to kick them once they get into power, so why puff them up now?
He only left school last year.
Introducing Samuel Coates
Seems a nice boy though. I suppose someone has to wet the tea and fetch sarnies.
Are you confusing the ConHome Sam Coates for the real Sam Coates at the Times?
Great some old right donut will now be working with Cameron. Maybe it's time to reconsider voting Tory.
Looks like he is, yes.
And a "social conservative"? Great, yet another busybody politician telling us proles how to live our lives.
FUCK. OFF.
I think Verity should be a shoe in for the ConHome vacancy
My political perspective could be described as a fusion of social conservatism and economic liberalism, working together for social justice by harnessing personal responsibility and civic society.
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? You are right Gordo, this young sprog 'social' Conservative will reassure the right. NOT!
The death of Conservative Home is announced...
It's jibberish. Just words randomly placed together to cloud the vacuity and manifest drivel. Shame really. Cameron is perhaps the luckiest charlatan on the planet with two opponents who clearly aren't up to the job. It could be tedious if it wasn't so disgraceful.
http://donalblaney.blogspot.com/2008/07/sam-coates-leaves-conservative-home.html
What can Mr Blaney mean, abour "filling the position under Mr Montgomerie" or being Tim's "right hand" or "filling his slot". I think we should be told.
**Breaking News**
Cat stuck up tree in High Wycombe!
The death of PHI
FS
Wierd that Guido hasn't picked up on the humiliating and prominent apology issued by the Mail on Sunday's political team on page 2 of Sunday's paper?
"Last Sunday we wrongly alleged that Graham Stuart MP had launched a foul mouthed rant against the German football team over the public address system in a Toyko sports bar. In fact, Mr Stuart was invited to speak, did so in an entirely inoffensive manner and his remarks were taken in good spirit by those present. We have agreed to pay Mr Stuart damages and his legal costs and apologies for any embarrassment caused."
Quack, Quack, Oops. Another expensive day for the Mail! Didn't they have to cough up for libelling Labour MP Martyn Jones too? Surely, heads must roll....
CU - 2.54: or indeed Aunty Flo?
Who gives a flying f**k...?
CityUnslicker said...
"I think Verity should be a shoe in for the ConHome vacancy"
Half pint said...
"CU - 2.54: or indeed Aunty Flo?"
Auntie Flo would be OK though she does get carried away sometimes.
Verity is as mad as a hatter. Also, being based in Mexico, she is totally out of touch with life in this country.
Talking of revolutions, it's Bastille Day today.
Here's some good news from across the channel:
From le Figaro, le Paris Match and all Frog TV channels.
State of le Frog Nation Address on Bastille Day
'Allo and bonjour, motherfuckeurs, is President Sarkozy, L'Empereur de France, ici, an I 'ave just been making love weeth Madame President - oui, eat out your 'earts motherfuckeurs - an' she whisper in my ear 'ole zat I am a very beeg boy, Tu est formidable, M'sieu le President, an' she tell me, also, zat le M'sieu Jagger of les Rolling Stone avec whom ma cherie 'as been link-ed is un beast avec le disease Anglaise, zat is 'ow you say, he is le nonce, non? it iss, for 'im, le derriere du garçons jeuenes, n'est ce pas, which M'sieu Mick is liking beuacoup to spend the night together with an' 'ave some satisfaction, non? rather than les femmes honky tonk or la sucre brune, oo taste so good, only not so good as the little boy, eh, and is little red rooster, n'est ce pas, or, 'ow you say, innit?
Any'ow come in la Belle France while Nicholas Sarkozy is L'Empereur and M'sieu Sir Jagger and the Rolling Stone motherfuckeurs all 'ave breakfast with Madame Guillotine. 'Ave one set-up, right here, in the back garden, next mon pissoir, and invite bold French motherfuckeur gentlemen with loaf of bread under one arm and petit dog under other arm to watch head get slice off from English sonsafuckingbitches.
Sacha Distel and Charles Aznavour, any'ow, make the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world and not, mais non, a troupe maligne of old-age-ed pensioner drug addictee paedophiles Anglaises. Sank 'eaven for leetle girls, I know, is only rock 'n'roll Françcais, mais Je l'aime.
Any'ow now zat we have clarify up that Madame le President -Empress never 'ave sex with dirty English poufette, Jagger - or banjoiste and drug addict, M. Clapton, or M Donald Trump, or M. Kevin Costner, drug addict or Real Madrid FC or Luciano Pavarotti, fat drug addict an' the 'ole cast of Aida or the French Army an' the Nation of Luxembourg - an' is not a filthy, poxed-up, knee-trembling groupie slapper cochon after all, but is Joan of Arc reincarnée, only not lesbo, like originale, can get to point of my State of Nation Address to les motherfuckeurs Française which is, mes amis, les filthy English degenerate sonsofuckingbitches come over in Europe, encore, and fuck-up les things, bon et propre, innit.
Ecoutez moi, motherfuckeurs, secret weapon Anglaise since time of Plantagenet, les Rosbifs 'old up les two finger an' it mean Gonna shove up votre asshole M'sieu le Frog, spread wide, comme ça, and then insertee suddenment le big John Bull chopper to make eyes water an' see 'ow you like that entente cordiale, n'est ce pas, innit, Rule Britannia; Cry God for Harry, England and Saint George Michael, patron saint of les cottageurs Anglaise.
'As always been comme ça with les Rosbifs an' is why at Agincourt and Waterloo, French squaddie, run, 'ow you say, like the fuck, away from Rosbif archer and grenadier, drop down weapon on ground and take off like shit out from shovel, is not fear of l'arrow or le sabre or le musket ball but is fear of Rosbif sausage up Jacquesy and spend rest of hundred fucking year war avec le posterieur flambée et tres malade, motherfuckeurs, peut être le whole of French Army catch le vee-dee off filthy English sex/war criminal oo ignore le Geneva Convention, always best refuge of French troop, who, comme d'habitude, eat cheese an' surrender immediatement upon hostility break out, n'est ce pas, innit and not expect to get buggerez-vous up arsehole from enemy captor. History repeat itself an' is now le buggerez-vous merchants in le Downing Street an' le palais de Westminstre.
And now is, oui, d'accord, 'appen all over again, les arse burgleurs of Olde Englande come over in la Belle France and, voila! let slip les poufs of war. Only the other day the filthy English nonce, M. Mandelstein, oo is not gay, even though 'e is, most certainement - and never mind M'sieu Paxman de Newsnuit , oo is poof, also, and M'sieu Wark oo is transwotsanom - M. Mandelstein is toujours dans le derriere de Mme. Mandelstein, Raymundo des Tory Anglaise Rentboys - oo 'ave ees arse investigee most diligent by select committee of Tory front bench , only not M'sieu Rassindill who fuck le dog instead, before crossing floor of 'ouse of common and get better deal from taxpayers - and oo suffers, tres mal, with l'amnesia du passports et mortgages et la verite, says - to moi, l'Empereur - take all hard-working French farmer money an' give to idle black fellow in Africa, compensate for slave trade.
France not hardly 'ave no slave, is Rosbifs and Yankee game, that; and any'ow, take one sous from French farmer an' whole country get put to torch, flambée; not like English pouf farmer who sit an' weep in rosbif dinner an' then 'ang 'imself from tree every time le fag vegetarienne, Benn, tell 'im off. M'sieu Benn, 'e make pretexte, innit, that 'e is socialiste, innit, n'est ce pas, but is rich fascist really from family of aristo, best not come round Elysee Palace or I, Sarkozy, L'Empereur, send him for breakfast with Madam Guillotine, 'ave one already and sharpen-up dans le jardin, next le pissoir.
Now, motherfuckeurs, le chef du government in Albion perfide is fag sauvage from the province of l'Ecosse, oose unemployed tribesmen separatiste consisté of l'arse-lover, l'enfant molesteur, les femmes gigantique et grosse, le dwarf intoxicee and le cannibal; ils s'apelle le Jock and is good for le fuck toute, need rub-down vite with le brique de maison an' drop down deep 'ole in ground.
L'Ecosse exist seulement on le charité de taxpayer Française, an' some Kraut and Wop. Le Jock, in own best interest is strongly advise not to come á la France on le piss-up de giro or else have breakfast avec Madame Guillotine; I 'ave one set-up and all preparee in my back garden at Elysee Palace, next le pissoir. Best Jock remainee at 'ome, beat Madame Jock noir et bleu and mangez on le Mars Bar frite, comme normale.
M.Brun, le fag suavage Jock, any'ow, is finance minister for ten year and burn all the fucking money in England. 'ave seen it with my own eyes. Take down in basement. Scare bleu, and throw in furnace. Billion and billion of pounds throw on fire. 'An now is premier an' every night in Downing Street says Alistaire, mon cherie, allez vite! Is some money left, takez-vous downstairs and throw on fire, tres quick, before someone 'as good idea to spend it on. Did have dejeuner with Brun and Madame Brun - the one avec le beard, n'est ce pas- and Brun say Sorry il fait froid in 'ere, best raisez some taxez vous, soon 'ave some more money to burn.
Any'ow, motherfuckeurs, le pouf Mandelson is not even elected by les citizens, not even in pretendez-vous style, like M.Brun but is given le grande commisariat du trade European because 'e 'as les photos de M. Brun, le fag auvage Jock, on his cheval imbalancee, dressed in 'ow you say, le nappee. Is tres mysterieuse, comme le lunatic, n'est ce pas, innit ? Prime minister de Grande Bretagne is fagfreak, non? An' blackmail, too . Many people in feelthy communist Government Anglais know where are the bodies entombee an' the rocking horse tied-up.
An' so avec everyone blackmail each other, Brun, le fag suavage Jock, and Mandelson le pouf simperant and Tony and Imelda, les slags, never get throw in the English Bastille where they belong an' have breakfast with Madame Guillotine for crime against humanite an' nature. 'Ave one ici, dans le jardin, all sharpen-up, next le pissoir. Instead, Brun and Mandelstein come over in Europe and wavez-vous two finger at Moi, Sarkozy. In votre dreams, Sunshines. Fuck moi, en passant, is one ugly cochon, innit, n'est ce pas, Imelda; can park aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in there.
Talking of 'oom, France save Tommy Atkins bacon in two world war, stand an' fight Fritz when Tommy run home frightened and never retournee until Uncle Sam come in and kick Fritz ass an' then is Tommy thees and Tommy that and Please, Mademoiselle from Armentiers, parlez vous, in return for liberating vous all, can we have quick wine an' 'andjob party? Ugly bloke in tin 'at an' short trouser run all over la Belle France waving little cock at decent mesdemoislelles Francaises et Belgiques, c'est horrible.
But now, motherfuckeurs, not only is Sarkozy L'Empereur de France but also L'Empereur de Europe totale an' can put L'Interpol on Brun, le fag suavage Jock, an' Mandelson le nonce simperant, an' Tony an' Imelda, les slags. Write European arrestez-vous warrant which says Come 'ere in handcuhh, s'ils vous plait, an' 'ave breakfast avec Madame Guillotine; 'ave one 'ere, all sharpen-up, give to fair trial and then executez-vous. Tres bien. Job accomplit. Job's a bon une. N'est ce pas. Innit.
So, motherfuckeurs, we executez-vous this quartet criminale, stick 'eads on poles at Versailles an' then, just like ancestor William of Normandy, nous sommes invading les Anglaises, shoot in eye and kick ass from sonsabitches, all over 'Astings, march on Londres an' then erect portable Madame Guillotine in Parliament Square and executez-vous whole stinking mass of thieving arse-burgleur politician, journalistes, BBC an', Ah, oui, Protestantes an' throw 'eads an' body all in River of Thames.
Le Grande Bretagne, French again at last, is liberee from thievin' arse bandit and heretic, Queen Brenda is abdicee and Sarkozy is declaree Empereur of England an' provinces an' Canada an' Australia. Vive la France ! Vive la Revolution ! Vive Sarkozy ! Apres moi le deluge.
But first, motherfuckeurs, I 'ave some cheese, a little wine, a little nap an' then make love avec Madame L'Empress, only 'ave safe sex with Imperial condom, is best to on safe side be . Not want contractee le pox geriatrique from Rolling Stones.
An' now, mon fellow motherfuckeurs, we all stand, n'est ce pas, innit, for Le Marseillaise.
De-dum de-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-de-dum De-dum-de-dum-dum Dum-de-dum...........
This is clearly just an attempt to shut down ConHome.
There is no way Coates will be doing anything meaningful. Have you seen how badly he writes?
Excellent. So a teenage IT geek who's never had a proper job now gets to right speeches for Cameron. They should be a real humdinger. And it's great that he's busy fusing economic liberalism and social justice to produce an incoherent society....
Who do all "activists" have such ridiculous blow-dried bouffant hairstyles?
What was that all about?!?
Conservative home is a real problem for David Cameron as it won't be controlled.
Has anyone heard of Platform 10 ? With the Daily Telegraph heading of on a quixotic journey to New Labour and the Catholic Church Conservative Home is all thats left of free (and therefore troublesome) Tory thought.
I'm guessing Dave's plan B is if you can't beat them - hire them. Bleed Conservative home of its talent, that'll teach them to stick up for grammar schools.
Word around is Ed Hallam is tipped to take over as deputy at ConHome.
Congrats to Sam
Come on people, can you all just be pleased for someone for once?! He isn't gay, nor 15, and is very dedicated to the party. He has a very bright future ahead of him. Congratulations Sam :)
Bang on Sophie. Having worked with Sam I'm quite happy to report he's much older than 15, not at all a geek (though he does know his blogging software) and he's not gay in the slightest (though the last time I saw him in the flesh he was moderately happy).
Agree with the post above. Apparently some will resort to any old conspiracy theory about shutting down ConservativeHome rather than believe the most likely explanation that ConHome offered a very able young man the chance to demonstrate his skills and now he has been hired for them by the Cameron team.
So it'd be alright to slate him if he was gay? It's thinking like that which makes reasonable people hate the Tory party.
"Come on people, can you all just be pleased for someone for once?!"
I am sustained by other peoples' misery.
Throwing your hat in the (ConservativeHome) ring, Guido?
Surprise surprise, the usual jealous rantings of anonymous losers to someone else getting a promotion.
No doubt your IMMENSE talents have simply been overlooked Bolingbroke, or maybe your various job applications were simply lost in the CCHQ. Or maybe its just that you’re an untalented politically illiterate twat.
Hallam? As in the ed hallam indicted here: http://torybear.blogspot.com/2008/07/yes-this-is-post-about-london-wanna.html and here: http://theblueguerilla.blogspot.com/2008/07/hallam-in-dock.html
God help conhome if that's the talent coming through
Could you imagine Margaret Thatcher or Winston Churhill hiring a "social conservative" straight out of school to write their speeches? Perhaps guido is putting the cart before the horse and the lad is being taken on as an apprentice.
What is a Social Conservative anyway?
"I am sustained by other peoples' misery."
Ah, a headbanger finally tells the truth -- thank you!
And good luck to Sam who is worth more to the party than the bitter-and-twisted wingnuts who've taken this opportunity to share their personality disorders with us
Sam's a good guy - not fifteen, not gay (though clearly something of a dish!) and not a geek. He was plucked off a politics degree here at Brookes to join ConHome and, whilst I'm probably likely to disagree with every word he might ever write (of course!) has I am sure learned a great deal more in the thick of it down there in that Westmonster burble as anyone ever would on a politics degree. Maybe some of Dave's speeches might stand a chance of having some substance now though at least!
I hate carpetbaggers and politicians in general.
Who the hell cares if the old etonian used car salesman has got a new spinshitter?
Twere better that all politicians went the same way as the Armenians.
Chancellor Adolph used to say'Who remembers the Armenians?'
I think he is just doing low level regional articles etc according to job spec.
So no great drama.
Although the chance to undermine ConHome was probably too tempting an opportunity to miss.
I'm sure he will also be good at the odd bit of photocopying etc
"Ah, a headbanger finally tells the truth -- thank you!"
I'm assuming your comment was as tongue-in-cheek as mine was.
I say good luck and well done to Sam. I just happen to find negative comments far more amusing!
How much later this afternoon? it's ten to five already and no-one seems to have announced anything, least of all ConHome. You'd have thought they would have noticed.
I smell a rat...
He can't be Gay, according to Wiki, social conservatives.
"Favor restriction of civil marriage rights to heterosexuals and promotion of traditional religious sexual values."
Mrs Dale will not be best pleased at Dave's new Child protege.
Why this obsession whether he is gay or not? Why should it matter? Just for the record though, there are a number of young ladies out there who can assure you from experience he is not...
Erm, this is interesting from his interview on ConHome:
Toby Harlon: Young, tie-less, Cameroonian, northern, internet-savvy. How long before you are one of Dave's boys in parliament??
Probably forever! I've developed something of a cynicism about people who aim to be MPs from a young age, they often have the wrong reasons for desiring it. There are a lot ways of influencing, I'm not too sure I'm best suited to that one..
Damn, talk about a turnaround!!! I guess that's what got him the job at DC's office-being able to...turn around quickly.
Sorry.
Seems like a lot of bother about nothing...Coats is a child - that said we need a policy for the youth...maybe Coats can write it..Not sure about speech writing - maybe he is good at text writing...who cares whether he is gay or not? It is and should be a non issue!!!
I'm afraid it won't be me or anyone I know - we can spin and we can do glitz and champagne with the best of the bunch but something seems a bit creepy in the Conservative leadership. Anyway, congrats to Sam. We're looking forward to watching you sift the shit from the dross.
Actually, I think this would have been the summer he would have been due to graduate. The fact that he already has what by the sounds of it will be a better political job than even his new boss could manage at that stage in his life seems to me to be testament to something I had thought long gone in this country - the ability to get places without a piece of paper at the end of three years' lectures. (I know, I know, many of us wouldn't count writing speeches for politicians as "going places" but in this crazy world they make TV series about such folk so we must be wrong!)
BTW - anon @ 5.23 - Sam still has the 'e' in his name, I, not being a "social conservative" consumed mine early in life!
Stanislav 'e 'ave zee good job again dun. She are like ze maistro de Roget.
He's abjectly not gay! He got a stunningly attractive new girlfriend!
And he's great. A bright future ahead of him. So sod off the lot of you.
PS - I'm not him.
When did speechwriters come in? I think policiticians should write their own speeches. (And not announce them beforehand so that the BBC tell us, "Tomorrow the PM will say ... etc")
anonymous 5.17pm. Please explain yourself.
Even in these enlightened times one cannot say:-
"He's abjectly not gay! He got a stunningly attractive new girlfriend! And he's great"!!!!
I wish him well in the job.
I wish him and her or him and him well in their relationship!
for the record, i know he's not 15, it was a figure of speech. i'm as interested in "who's up and who's down" as anyone else, but the idea that he will have influence is risible.
as for not being gay because he has a girlfriend, that is as good an example of a non-sequitur as I have ever read, though never having met mr coates, i have no idea whether he is nor not.
i also couldnt care less, though if he's a social conservative, i'd like someone to explain what that means, and more pertinently - how they ally that with economic liberalism and how they make it happen - "you can spend your money on what you like but you can't sleep with who you like" - good luck with that!
my original quibble was with guido who very occasionally seems to forget that he is there to lambast people like that, and not to increase their next salary offer by saying how influential they are. then again, i admire guido's work enormously, and everyone's allowed a miss every now and again.
"He's abjectly not gay! He got a stunningly attractive new girlfriend!
And he's great. A bright future ahead of him. So sod off the lot of you.
PS - I'm not him."
Are you his girlfriend?
Look, if a Politician's got something to say then he should say it. Why the Fuck are modern day politicians paying some other cunt to tell them what to say? Assuming they are paying some other cunt and it is NOT the taxpayer who is picking up the other cunt's tabs.
Fucking Dave should say what he really means, not what some other hired cunt writes what he thinks that Dave should say.
Can we then take it that Dave's speeches are not from Dave but from some other Cunt, who is paid to write what Dave would have written but Dave can't be arsed to do so, so he employs some other fucker to write what he meant to write but can't be arsed to do so?
It's a pity he's not gay, because he's fucking horny. I'd let him do dirty things to me and no mistake.
He looks like the kind of smug git who will drive up the price of Westminster talc options this summer.
As for the speeches:
"No committments, no policy, No committments, no policy, No committments, no policy, No committments, no policy,"
"Can I have my grand now guvnor?"
Past eight bells of the middle watch, and Mr Montgomerie is still in denial.
Ancient Mariner, we are now in the First watch. The Middle does not start until 2300 or 2400, depending on which "routine" we are working.
How was I to know this blog is read by seafaring chronological pedants? Stop nitpicking. You know what I meant.
Pedants, ancient mariner? On this blog?
Whatever next.
Oh my gosh maggie, that last comment hurt. No, really. How did you know about my cv's to CHQ? And where did you learn such wonderful rhetoric? It was the eloquent 'illiterate political twat' flourish that must surely be guaranteeing you too a place at the party leader's side.
Anyway, I'm sure we're all glad that he's not really 15, that he's not gay (sorry hunky dunky) - phew! - and that he's actually the sharpest political mind since, er, James McGrath. And that he's not actually been appointed yet.....
Looks like Sam's replacement has got himself into some serious problems on the first day in the job....
http://theblueguerilla.blogspot.com/2008/07/hallam-in-dock.html
Not a good start
The gay comments are a little left field. Did anyone actually suggest here that he was? That said, the fact that he is socially conservative probably gives him a statistically higher chance of being into bumming, if American senators are anything to go by. Call me a cynic, but fresh faced young male Tories with the views of Himmler always sound the FIERCELY HETEROSEXUAL alarm to me.
Whilst we're picking holes, you've got to wonder how socially conservative he can be if so many nubile young ladies can attest to his prowess. Perhaps he believes that promiscuity is permissible as long as it's not FILTHY GAYS doing it.
Anyway, good luck to him. I find the writing style of Conhome rather leaden and thuddingly literal at the best of times, but the content is always varied and of a high quality, and he must have had alot to do with that.
I think the "he's gay" comments were deleted, and quite rightly so! theres no room for that kind of abuse, intolerance or predjudice in the conservative party!
i prescribe a crash course of MDMA and ketamine washed down with a gram of coke and a bunch of vallies
Oh I see, how dense, I should have realised.
Anonymous said...
My political perspective could be described as a fusion of social conservatism and economic liberalism, working together for social justice by harnessing personal responsibility and civic society.
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? You are right Gordo, this young sprog 'social' Conservative will reassure the right. NOT!
July 14, 2008 2:59 PM
Fuck me it's Tony blair!!!
No One knew what the fuck he was about either.
Sam Coates sold his soul to the devil. As an independant he would have had more influence, now he's just another bought snout.
Anonymous said...
He can't be Gay, according to Wiki, social conservatives.
"Favor restriction of civil marriage rights to heterosexuals and promotion of traditional religious sexual values."
Mrs Dale will not be best pleased at Dave's new Child protege.
July 14, 2008 5:08 PM
When to Commie Labour arrest him - don't they have laws against free speech?
Ooh Betty said...
Why this obsession whether he is gay or not? Why should it matter? Just for the record though, there are a number of young ladies out there who can assure you from experience he is not...
July 14, 2008 5:14 PM
So he's a slag then, is that what you are saying?
Anonymous said...
He's abjectly not gay! He got a stunningly attractive new girlfriend!
And he's great. A bright future ahead of him. So sod off the lot of you.
PS - I'm not him.
July 14, 2008 5:47 PM
Bit paranoid about the gay thing ain't cha Sam!
Don't worry Osbore will break you in and make you feel most welcome.
Re: Bolingbroke, 9:34:
“And where did you learn such wonderful rhetoric?”
Probably at the same place you learnt grammar.
Twat.
He needs another ten years.You can see he hasn't lived enough.He'll make several minor Balls-Ups and hit the wrong tone (too idealogical,not enough common-sense plain speaking).
Coatsy can't be worse than Cameron's present speech writer who ever that is.
Most of Cam's utterings strike me as rather staccato and buzz-phrazoid. Less like a speech and more like a list of briefly visited pronouncements.
Mind you, its worked so far though I think that at some time he has to change his style and become more mellifluent.
What a vile series of comments aimed at one of the most decent individuals I've ever met in politics or, indeed, anywhere else.
"EXCLUSIVE : Sam Coates of ConservativeHome Hired as Cameron Speechwriter
It will be announced later this afternoon that Sam Coates, deputy editor of the influential ConservativeHome website is to become Dave's deputy speechwriter."
So, what happened to your "exclusive" then?
"What a vile series of comments aimed at one of the most decent individuals I've ever met in politics or, indeed, anywhere else."
Seconded, you bastards
Does anyone have a picture of Sam Coates and a dog?
Good money paid.
Call 01792 697845.
Thanks.
There's a massive problem when you get teenagers running things from the (un) dynamic duo down. Playing to the cheap seats and absolutely no idea what they're doing. I doubt very much if any of them can distinguish between strategy and tactics - hope i'm wrong.
Its ok he is just doing bog standard regional articles - the kind of thing normally done by junior CRD bods.
So he won't be doing anything original just paraphrasing lines to take on various low level issues.
Plus it has the added benefit of undermining ConHome.
Once you understand that why he was appointed is clear.
Please expand upon Cameron's motives for undermining Con Home
Woudln't put it past them - there were rumours about Montgomerie being asked to work for Boris! Failing that they've got the other one. Most influential 22yr old in politics?
Its a constant irritant to them - grammar schools, 42 days, cornerstone, religious right stuff, MEP Selection etc
Everything they are trying to get away from.
They tried to undermin it and set up a rival and recently they have tried to appease with meetings etc
Giving Coates a junior but meaningless role in DC office is a smart move.
Anon 2.59
Probably because they embarrassed Dave over 42 days, with Gordon quoting from their site at PMQs
Why is it so hard for the Conservatives to support other Conservatives instead of trying to undermine them at every opportunity? In a time where we should all be helping each other and showing unity, we're all throwing catty comments and undermining peoples positions and decisions.
No wonder it took an economic crisis and Gordon Browns incompetance for the Conservatives to come out on top again. Its about time we all stop arguing for the sake of it and trying to be constructive.
IT'S OFFICIAL THEN.
Samuel Coates to join David Cameron's office
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