Leadership contenders go head-to-head
Written by the founding editor on 20th October 2007 – 10:38 amNick Clegg and Chris Huhne will go head-to-head at the South Central Regional Conference in Newbury, Berkshire today.
I’m sure it will be carried on News24, so if anyone can enlighten us in the comments as to when the hustings is due to start (for some reason News Online systematically deny their readers information like this) then we’d be very grateful!
Posted in Conference, Leadership Election, News
20th October 2007 at 12:19 pm
Two idiots one party that is going down the drain.
20th October 2007 at 12:44 pm
KH you talking about Cameron & Osborne again?!
Give those poor fellas a break, and maybe you own little mind while your at it.
20th October 2007 at 1:31 pm
Has anybody ever listened to Osborne on the radio? ie without picture on tv - what is it that he reminds me of? A day out canvassing in Rochdale for the best answer
20th October 2007 at 2:16 pm
It never ceases to amaze me that some folk can have such empty lives that they have to hang around the web sites of parties they don’t like just to post snide, pathetic little gibes as we find here from KH!
Personally I wouldn’t even want to visit Tory-Labour sites….
KH - Get a Life! Go out and meet people, go to the movies, anything!!
20th October 2007 at 2:35 pm
4. Martin..
Well, quite. If the Lib Dems weren’t important to how successful the other two parties are, they bother wouldn’t posting here.
Make no mistake, the Conservatives genuinely fear Clegg and Labour should too. Why do you think the Tories put Cameron up in the first place? They wanted to stop Clegg replacing Kennedy.
20th October 2007 at 6:40 pm
Has it happened yet?
Maybe the BBC are recording it to show after the rugby or on the politics show tomorrow
20th October 2007 at 6:52 pm
Yes, it’s happened. It got reasonable coverage on Radio 4, which I listened to on the way home. A good event; frankly, I think everyone there (about 120? activists from Berks Bucks Oxon & Hants) would be perfectly happy with either of them.
21st October 2007 at 5:13 pm
Very revealing remark that I’m pretty certain I heard from a BBC correspondent at the Newbury event.
Asked whether members appeared annoyed that a leadership election was taking place, the BBC man replied:
“I’ve been trying to find someone who will say that they are unhappy with what has happened” (I paraphrase)
And I thought the BBC was there to report news, not to seek to confirm their own prejudices!
Anybody else hear this?
21st October 2007 at 7:11 pm
The Radio 4 report was very poor journalism.
The reporter appeared to start the piece by saying Lib Dem members were cross at having their conference hi-jacked by the leadership election and then ended it by admitting (as crewegwyn says) that everyone seemed to be saying it was a good thing. In between he made it clear he had know understanding of what a party’s regional conference was or that it was Chris’s heartland as he had represented it as an MEP.
We often bemoan the electorate’s lack of interest in politics but it depresses me how often journalists seem to know so little about it too.