Please note Norman Lamb’s comments about an electronic all-member conference and uniting after the leadership election,
and
Tim Farron’s comments about relationships with otherpolitical parties and the 2020 general election, 30 tidal barrages, the Tory and Labour campaigns in the EU referendum will be dull, ours should not be.
They are both good, there is not much between them, they should be able to work together after the leadership election.
This format of audience members not being allowed to ask questions is stupid, an d makes for fairly dull meetings. At the Edinburgh hustings this morning I’m pleased to say it was completely ignored, and the chair, Jenni Lang, treated us like adults, letting us ask our own questions (with the help of a roving microphone). Somehow, the sky didn’t fall in, and everyone had a very enjoyable informative session.
Jonathan Parry This is an interesting article. One Nation Toryism never got going until the demise of the Liberals in the 1920s (Disraeli certainly never practised it). To t...
Peter Davies In Latin it may be a gerund but in English it's a noun. If I were to object to the Government's referending of the public, that would be a gerund....
Alex Macfie Except that "referendum" is not a Latin 2nd Declension Neuter noun. It's a gerundive; as such it is used in English differently from Latin so should take an Eng...
PM @ PM,
It can be either. I do remember from my schooldays that the plural in Latin involved replacing the 'um' of a neuter noun by an 'a'. I must have managed...
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Please note Norman Lamb’s comments about an electronic all-member conference and uniting after the leadership election,
and
Tim Farron’s comments about relationships with otherpolitical parties and the 2020 general election, 30 tidal barrages, the Tory and Labour campaigns in the EU referendum will be dull, ours should not be.
They are both good, there is not much between them, they should be able to work together after the leadership election.
This format of audience members not being allowed to ask questions is stupid, an d makes for fairly dull meetings. At the Edinburgh hustings this morning I’m pleased to say it was completely ignored, and the chair, Jenni Lang, treated us like adults, letting us ask our own questions (with the help of a roving microphone). Somehow, the sky didn’t fall in, and everyone had a very enjoyable informative session.