Europe needs to get real on defence; Britain needs to get real on Europe
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14 February 2010
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Nice one … was hoping for a bit of your usual Torywhacking today because – how appropriate – people are falling out of love with them (if they were ever in love with them) judging by polls and some of papers. Observer good today. More trouble for them on Ashcroft. Open and transparent new politics my bum!!
Will you be watching Piers and Gordon tonight. I see Piers is on the cover of your novel? (didn’t buy, am waiting for paperback) Have you two made up??
Hi Alistair,
Personally having had to live with the torture of anxiety attacks for many years, particularly when engaged in professional work and under the public spotlight to some degree, I have a say that I wanted to empathise with the difficulties you are having to deal with at the moment and to say that I feel you dealt with the difficult moment you fsced during the Andew Marr show incredibly well, it was so encouraging to see how you dealt with this, things like this are important for people to see, and I admire how you dealt with this, I certainly don’t feel so alone when facing my own particular difficulties in life, so thank you
LORD PAUL.
REMEMBER THAT NAME IT WILL COME BACK TO HAUNT THE LABOUR PARTY, THEIR VERY OWN NON DOM CONTRIBUTOR. THAT NAME WILL BE COME MORE A FOCUS.
JOEB
Merde alors! A chanson from a Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey! Old Europe. Tony and George aren’t going to be happy about this. Prepare for a stern waterboarding.
Thanks Alistair, I’ll look up this one – I love French-pop, check out Gregoire’s new album, Toi et Moi.
Alastair, not a Valentine’s card from the Dacremonster today?
Spent the morning canvassing and I can report that there is no liking for Dave amongst the electorate, some of those that are a bit cheesed off with Labour are not convinced by him at all.
Thanks. Why no link, though – surely it’s not very chivalrous to make your Valentines do all the hard work?
For what it’s worth, though, there’s a stunning 1956 recording to be found on YouTube, quite raw and tough and considerably less saccharine than the lyrics – either in translation or indeed the original – might suggest. Universalising love beyond individuals, into a geopolitical context, renders the whole Valentine’s day thing admirably un-soppy. Good choice.
And did the whole saga of Dave at the University of East London, bizarrely devoting a whole speech to condemning you, promising to rebuild trust in politics – while at the same time, busing in half a dozen glossy Tory youths to sit behind him during the speech, apparently an aesthetic improvement on the indigenous population, so much for ‘decontaminating the brand’ etc – constitute a nice early Valentine’s Day treat for you? If so, it was well-deserved!
Dominic’s supportive comment on your anxiety over Andrew Marr’s stupid questioning will have been echoed by many. Maybe we should hold Iraq Inquiries every 4 years, slotted in between World Cups and Olympics, until we can get the only response that will satisfy the hindsight specialists. This is that clearly only wicked Tony Blair is to blame, and that the politicians with similar views only supported the action because he tricked them all. I wonder if in today’s climate we would have declared war on Germany despite that nice Mr Hitler’s piece of paper assuring us we had nothing to fear.
A potential Tory government that can’t get the decimal point in the right place on a terrifically important social policy statistic? Shows what weight they really attach to social justice.
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