UK conservatives: Battle of the Dinosaurs
- From: a.manansala@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 5 Oct 2005 07:28:33 -0700
To think that at one time Thatcher and Britain were practically the
only other conservative capitalist ally of U.S. Reps.
This article warms my heart.
Regards,
Paul Kekai Manansala
http://sambali.blogspot.com/
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4 October 2005
TORIES AT BLACKPOOL: BATTLE OF THE DINOSAURS
TORY chairman Francis Maude yesterday admitted the Tories were like
dinosaurs facing extinction. As the candidates face up for the
leadership fight, here's our guide to the beasts in the Jurassic jungle
and their dinosaur rating...
POSH boy David Cameron is typical of Tory leaders of the past -
educated at Eton and Oxford and from one of the richest families in the
land.
The youngest candidate at 37, he promises to be the Tories' answer to
Tony Blair.
But, like duckbilled Parasaurolophus, he is midway down the food chain,
eating only vegetables. Likely to be mauled by bigger monsters.
FIERCEST meat eater of the contenders, known for hard right views and
hard man image.
David Davis, 56, is a trained SAS soldier who likes the taste of blood
and claimed the scalp of Minister Beverley Hughes.
He parades his working class credentials, raised in a council house by
a single mum, as a man of the people. But he has few friends in the
party and is a turn-off for voters.
SELF-STYLED big beast of Tory jungle, Ken Clarke has the experience to
lead his party, having been Chancellor, Home, Health and Education
Secretaries.
But, like the Brontosaurus, he is a lumbering heavyweight who admits he
may be too lazy and is far from frightening.
At 65 he can barely stir himself out of the marshy waters of
semi-retirement. But if he does plod his way to victory, he still has
an appeal to voters that could threaten Labour.LIKE the three-horned
Triceratops, which lived in sediment and ate rotting vegetation, Liam
Fox is a feisty fighter.
But the 43-year-old Eurosceptic and tax-cutter is not the most
frightening of the dinosaurs and he knows it.
Although funny and sharp witted in private, he is regarded as a
lightweight in Commons clashes.
FORMER Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, 59, has the best
diplomatic and manoeuvring skills of the candidates.
He is clever and canny but just as the real Diplodocus had a weird long
neck, his strange image, with his balding head and glasses, is a major
handicap in the battle for survival.
He does not look good on TV and has little support among MPs. Even his
colleagues say his best chance is to shoot the other candidates.
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