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Hopeless Romantic Donating Member (495 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-01-09 08:54 AM
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So, what did you think of the conference then?
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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-01-09 04:57 PM
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1. What drugs are you on Gordon threw whatever remaining
credibility away. Mandleson sounded like Michael Portillo pre converted - "who dares wins". The "next Leader", Millibrat was given a graveyard slot and fluffed that. None of this a surprise.

My disappointment is with the Lib Dems who ensured that a time Neo Con Labour was about to be destroyed, they ruined any serious chance of making an impact.

(See the earlier post about conferences and democracy).
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-01-09 05:21 PM
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2. Didn't see any of it, I'm afraid.
Too busy.

The Skin
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-03-09 03:56 AM
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3. It will go down in history...
...as the conference that Rupert Murdoch shat on. I don't think it will have done very much to persuade people to vote Labour.

I'm actually more disappointed with the Lib Dem's conference. Nick Clegg seems intent on undoing all the best Lib Dem policies. I don't rate him as a party leader and quite frankly I can think of others who would make better MP's for Sheffield Hallam as well.
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-03-09 04:07 AM
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4. I would argue that a Charles Kennedy leadership would be giving Labour more trouble now
The Lib Dems never recovered from getting rid of him. Kennedy was a social-liberal populist who could genuinely connect with voters, but he was succeeded by two leaders lacking charisma.
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-03-09 04:10 AM
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5. Knifing Charles Kennedy was a big mistake for the Lib Dem's.
Edited on Sat Oct-03-09 04:11 AM by T_i_B
They've just gone backwards since then. If I were a Lib Dem I would rue the day they decided to parachute Clegg into a safe seat.
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oldironside Donating Member (835 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-03-09 04:13 AM
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6. He was slightly undermined...
... by being in the throes of alcoholism. I like a small glass of Babycham as much as the next man, but I´d find it difficult to vote for a man who turns up for a TV show so drunk that he couldn´t speak.
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