Comments on: links for 2008-04-25

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:30:22 +0000

It's the trailer for Face/Off, that's what it is. "To defeat him ... I must become him", as Gordon Brown said of Tony Blair. Nicolas Cage is nearly as good an actor as Gordon, and John Travolta is, well, deeply religious. Philip's latest blog post... Don't Run, We Are Your Friends

By: ejh

ejh — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:54:48 +0000

Heh. I'm a scruffy foreign national. ejh's latest blog post... Miller's tale

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:34:25 +0000

And this from someone who said - not once but twice - this week that the Tories should be hoovering up voters like the one he quotes as having 'queued with scruffy foreign nationals who were guided towards those handouts denied to me'. To quote racist contributors to the BBC's Have Your Say shows that you're not just scraping the bottom of the barrel but that you've broken through the bottom and are now actually tunnelling.

By: ejh

ejh — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:11:02 +0000

The thing is, you can ask “well, Iain, what are you trying to say?” but he’ll just answer “well, I honestly don’t know what they’re doing, that’s why I asked”. He’s not going to admit it’s a bizarre smear.

But it’s really, really low.

ejh’s latest blog post… Miller’s tale

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:48:51 +0000

Dale’s post was more than a little odd when you consider that in Wales there are two wards the BNP are going to win because they stand unopposed. No other party put up a candidate there.

I know some very good people in Welsh Tories and I very much doubt they’d appreciate Iain Dale acting as if the LibDems will be the cause of any BNP victories, given how easily the charge could come back on them.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:47:14 +0000

For a journalist about to launch a ‘politically neutral’ magazine, you mean? Yes.

By: ejh

ejh — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:43:04 +0000

Jesus, Dale's effort is pretty special, isn't it? ejh's latest blog post... Miller's tale

By: redpesto

redpesto — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:21:51 +0000

Aaargh, I know, you got me – but still, the story reminds me of that film.

Also there’s this: “President Hamid Karzai, who faces parliamentary and presidential elections in 2009, has sided with the conservatives in the soaps tussle.” Hang on, I thought he was our bastard?

And this: ‘”If the internationals allow this to happen on their watch, Afghans will no longer trust them to help the country to get back on its feet. This could be a cause of a larger rift in political blocks…” Ah, the perils of being a ’sovereign’ state…

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:12:10 +0000

Point of order, Mr Speaker. The actual quote from Starship Troopers is ‘To fight the bug, we must understand the bug’.

However, to ‘understand’ the Taliban is to ’sympathise’ with their tactics (copyright: The ‘Decent’ Left).

By: redpesto

redpesto — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:07:04 +0000

To beat the Taliban they must be the Taliban

Ah, Starship Troopers: works every time.