Re: Nick Clegg wins

Matthew Huntbach wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

Matthew Huntbach wrote:


I think it's worthwhile to discuss things like the vocabulary used in
politics.
Things that we do because that's what's always done are often worthwhile
taking
out, and looking at, and asking whether they have to be done that way and
whether
it would be better if they were done some other way.


Well okay can you suggest a better catchy turn of phrase for a party
deposing its leader, one that can be adapted whether the leader is deposed
behind closed doors/in secret ballots (a la Thatcher) or by frontbenchers
putting their names to round robin letters and running all over TV studios
demanding that the leader goes now?


I think we should be more accepting of the fact that parties may change their
leaders for a variety of reasons, without that being something reprehensible
as is implied by language like "assassins" and "stabbing".

Sinn Fein doesn't like that language. One is also not allowed to change the leadership. They have a competition at the moment with a free car for anybody who can name ten SF people who were not working for MI5.

Maybe Lib Dems should whack 'the enemy' for a decade and then, when the opportunity and conditions are there, without saying sorry or anything, kind of stumble towards a meeting in DC with the President to hint at calling off your bombing campaign, not for certain, but as a big maybe.

Be the 'mirth movement'. The DUP are SF have a sell out tour of the mid-west doing tap-dancing and everything.



During my time as a councillor, I twice stepped down as group leader, and
yes, amongst the Labour group there was use of this sort of language, but the
reality is I wasn't "stabbed", I actually was finding it difficult to balance
the jobs of being leader of the opposition on a London Borough and being a full
time academic, and wanted to hand the role over as soon as there were others
who had the experience to take it on.


People are eejits, I couldn't do it.


I took the role on for a second time
not because I had "stabbed" the person who took over from me, but because she
was going through a stressful period in life which meant she couldn't easily
carry on with what is required to be the lead spokesperson. These things happen -
politicians are human beings with real human lives.

Matthew Huntbach

Keep you chin up
.

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