Channel 4 political awards serve as a warning to our parliamentary party

Eight awards, three Tory wins, one Labour win, no Lib Dems (Sandi Toksvig doesn’t count).

No-one could doubt, I’m sure, that our parliamentarians are working hard – but these awards measure the impact of that work.  Listed below, the prize winners – Lib Dem nominees appear in brackets.  For what it’s worth, Greg Mulholland was robbed.

  • Politician’s politician – Dominic Greave (David Heath)
  • Opposition politican – David Cameron
  • Humour – Sandi Toksvig
  • Campaigning politician – Lord Ramsbotham (Greg Mulholland)
  • Political innovation – David Cameron (no LD nominee)
  • Political Book Award – Thatcher & Sons, Simon Jenkins
  • Peer of the year – Lord Rooker (Baroness Walmsley)
  • Channel 4 news award – Brian Haw (no LD nominee)

Congratulations to the prize winners… Guido could clearly be seen to be quite, um, jolly by the time of Brian Haw’s win.

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5 Comments

  • And the people voting are MPs. Oddly enough there are fewer Lib Dem MPs than Conservative or Labour MPs.

    For some strange reason they tend to vote on a party political basis.

  • Chris Rennard 11th Feb '07 - 2:33pm

    But we normally only win when a) either Labour or Conservative parliamentarians are not represented in the contest and b) whichever of the Labour or Conservative Parties IS represented has more than one strong candidate – so that their vote is split. An election dominated by Labour and Tory peers and MPs (voting by first past the post) is particularly difficult for a Lib Dem to win.

  • the whole ruling class should take this as a warning, the people have had enough

    the overwhelming vote for brian haw shows that

    but i’m glad you had a jolly time

    “the government is the shadow the corporations cast over society. the essence of corporate propaganda is to
    direct the peoples anger towards the shadow rather than towards the substance”

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