There is that beautiful biblical phrase about the " sins of the fathers being visited upon the sons". The english translation doesn't really do justice to the Hebrew. Its more of a sence that the consequences of past mistakes flow through the generations and to some extent we are free of other past actions. Thus we commit fresh sins.
I can't help but wonder if we are in this territory now. Ming has clearly been forced out and already (a) people are spraying around endorsements for Nick Clegg (b) FE announce a very short in my view timetable for a leadership campaign. Like the troops it seems the new leader needs to be home for Christmas. I understand the need for closure but perhaps thats why we should keep shooting Leaders in the head and have elections after general elections like we always used to.
So kennedys departure was botched. So every one rallied round the establishment candidate last time who then turned out to be the wrong person. So we have another Leadership election in paniced and truncated circumstances which runs the risk of....
Perhaps we should just raffle the party leadership or have a rotating Presidency like the Yugoslavs? I dispair.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Are we being rail roaded again?
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So far Jeremy Browne is the only MP I've seen openly declare for Nick (and if past form when he was the lobby liaison for Ming's leadership bid is anything to go by he's probably the one briefing that Chris knifed Ming)...I've been quite impressed that the likes of Shirley, David Laws etc have all said 'wait and see'
The first activity I saw was pro-Chris Huhne, a fair bit of it trying to slur Clegg (or could this be some clever Cleggite ploy to slur Huhne by slurring Clegg?)
I don't think there's any rail roading going on, unless its to restrict the contenders to Nick and Chris...
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