[identity profile] itchyfidget.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
That's all very nice, Mr Warm Fuzzy Dave, but where's the proposed legislation to back it up? Exactly - there isn't any, because well-being is a subjective (possibly even meaningless) term, and you can't legislate for it.

Great soundbite, but only hot air inside, as ever.

[identity profile] munchkinstein.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
I fell he may have had a tad much wine before writing that one. :-)

[identity profile] munchkinstein.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
I feel!! Crivens this Monday thing is not doing me any good.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
You fell? Thash what happens when you don't have your work/life thingy right.... wotsit, balance.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Lishen, I'm your very besht mate in the whole world, ok mate?, and I just want you to be happy. Nah, sod the sodding economy, jusht sit down, chill, here, have a faat one...."

[identity profile] itchyfidget.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
How long before he's tarred with that Charles Kennedy brush?

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, quite a while, I would think - I can't see that it's immediately advantageous to anyone in his won party to deliberately destabilise him now. Much more likely that he'll get portrayed as another Boris Johnstone - he won't get anything done, but he'll do it in an entertaining way.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
I loved his "Now shome (soory, some) people on the Right might disagree with me about this..." Look at me, I'm bold, modernising, not like those boring old farts who tried to get elected last year.

[identity profile] itchyfidget.livejournal.com 2006-05-22 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
He's great from a PR point of view (young, charismatic, interesting, and a good speaker) but there's no meat to any of his pretences at being something other than Old-School Tory.