“Overlord” Ashdown of Kabul-sub-Hamdon?

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“Overlord” Ashdown of Kabul-sub-Hamdon?

By Richard Huzzey | Tue 7th August 2007 - 10:15 pm

The Times says Paddy’s been courted to be an “Afghan overlord”, but Lib Dem Voice can (almost exclusively) reveal that he has declared himself content with ruling his garden and being ruled by his grandchildren.

While our former leader batted off any idea of being Gordon Brown’s Foreign or Northern Ireland Secretary, rumours are still circulating that he will have some role in sorting out Labour’s mess in Afghanistan. Or at least, that’s what the British papers thought.

Less traditional sources of British news suggest otherwise. From Bosnia’s Dnevni Avaz, via the Gulf Times, we hear from Paddy that,

I am not looking for a new job. I don’t intend to go to Afghanistan and I do not know anyone who would want that… I enjoy in [sic] my role of grandpa and gardener.

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