Comments on: LDV Media Moron Watch #1

By: crewegwyn

crewegwyn — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:25:02 +0000

Can I nominate Brendan Carlin and Glen Owen [so much nonsense, it took two of them to write it !] in the Mail on Sunday who claim that Clegg & Conference have been “rocked” by a defection.

Or, to put it more accurately, the fact that Mark Godwin has joined the Tories.

Mark who? Mark Godwin, who left the Lib Dems in May when he wasn’t selected for the Crewe & Nantwich byelection.

So not an MP … not a Group Leader … not even a Councillor.

Somehow, I doubt that news is going to rock Nick or Conference for long – or at all!

Indeed, a “defection” of such significance that, as far as I can see, it’s not even mentioned on Conservative Home.

By: David from Ealing

David from Ealing — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:11:52 +0000

I haven’t attended Conference for more than 20 years and remember thinking that I wasn’t at the same conference as the media.

One thing that also hasn’t changed – but was very noticeable on BBC Parliament yesterday and this morning – was the almost empty hall.

By: Clegg's Candid Friend

Clegg's Candid Friend — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:13:57 +0000

The Daily Mail quotes some of this interview, and gives the impression that Steel is pretty unflattering about Clegg:

And when Lord Steel, who led the old Liberal Party from 1976 until the formation of the Lib Dems in 1988, was asked by an interviewer how Mr Clegg was shaping up, he could only insist that it was ‘much too early to say, but I wish him luck’.

The peer added that Mr Clegg, a father of two young children with another on the way, was struggling to combine family life with his new party leadership job.

‘I know that Nick, who’s got a young family, is finding the demands on his time greater than he anticipated,’ he told the Big Issue magazine.

Has some positive stuff about Clegg been omitted by the Mail, or wasn’t there any to omit?

By: Andy H

Andy H — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:38:20 +0000

I’d nominate a Big Issue interview with David Steel.

The interviewer claimed that: “The Lib Dems have arrived in Bournemouth in subdued spirits” which was a remarkable bit of Mystic Meg-ing since I bought this Big Issue last Monday 8th & presumably it was printed days before that.