tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post1585320150835558826..comments2024-01-30T09:22:08.167+00:00Comments on Newmania In Lewes: Labour`s Leap LeftNewmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-81311298330602831232008-09-27T01:03:00.000+01:002008-09-27T01:03:00.000+01:00Love your new avatar, Newms. I'm no celeb in any s...Love your new avatar, Newms. <BR/><BR/>I'm no celeb in any sense of the word. Have just lived in Harlow for a long time and been involved with a quite lot of campaigns here during the past decade. Some of these campaigns were quite unusual ones, because there have been some quite extraordinary things to fight for during nulab's term of office.<BR/><BR/>Both our local Conservative candidate and Old Labour people have put my name forward for interviews at times, I suppose because, though I support Cameron's Conservatives now, I'm the polar opposite of a Tory. One of a new breed: a liberal Conservative.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-7446674524276869742008-09-26T00:21:00.000+01:002008-09-26T00:21:00.000+01:00I am most impressed Flo...quite amazed actually ,...I am most impressed Flo...quite amazed actually , how on earth did they come to pick on you for this honour ?Had someone been listening to you.You are quite a celebrity. Incidentally on brown muck as you may have noticed he is being all holy about having shots with their children. I recall he released stuff about his dead kid to cover some story or other and I remember thinking at the time that it was about as low as I could imagine .<BR/><BR/>I am going to look it up I kept the clipping in the pile of shameNewmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-52690637964606390212008-09-25T21:18:00.000+01:002008-09-25T21:18:00.000+01:00Gawd, I meant to say:...was Mr A finishing their s...Gawd, I meant to say:<BR/><BR/>...was Mr A finishing their sentences for them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-6756788893509403102008-09-25T21:09:00.000+01:002008-09-25T21:09:00.000+01:00So, today, there's me doing my Gordon Brown and Da...So, today, there's me doing my Gordon Brown and David Miliband impressions and stuff for, a surprisingly good looking, charismatic and persuasive, Aaronovitch and, equally surprisingly, listening to Mr A's profuse apologias for, and bigging up of, nulab and Miliband. <BR/><BR/>My daughter and my colleagues were chuffed to be interviewed too, as I sat intrigued...was Mr A finishing their sentences for them.<BR/><BR/>One - floating voter? - colleague said she's from a staunch Labour family from Bermondsey, but got fed up with it (politics) and had voted Conservative, she really liked Maggie Thatcher for her strength, she said, though more recently had voted for Blair, but the colleague now didn't know who she would support at the next election.<BR/><BR/>So, you're going to wait and see what Labour do over the next two years, said Mr A. Yes, said my colleague. Big grin from Mr A.<BR/><BR/>Did I fantasise that my colleague looked as though she felt that she couldn't reply to that statement with anything else but "yes"? Maybe, maybe not. A few weeks ago, she had told me that she was now Conservative, however the new Conservative council have since upset her by deciding to adopt fortnightly bin collections.<BR/><BR/>Tell David A what you told me about how you feel when you fly back to Britain, I said.<BR/><BR/>I used to look down on the patchwork of fields as we came into land and feel so pleased to come back here, but I don't feel that any longer, she said sadly. The reasons for that were left largely unexplored as the conversation drifted off.<BR/><BR/>All very insightful...perhaps.<BR/><BR/>I wish I had my PC with your email addy, n, as I've a lovely pic of Aaronovitch having a giggling fit with my daughter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-14877473192392817662008-09-25T20:58:00.000+01:002008-09-25T20:58:00.000+01:00Had a curious experience today. A bloke called Dav...Had a curious experience today. <BR/><BR/>A bloke called David, a researcher for the Times, had rung yesterday and said he was researching my town, Labour marginal Harlow. As I'm a long term resident, could I spare a few mins to tell him something of the town's politics? I thought nothing of it because I've had a few calls like that over the years, so I assume that my name has been put into some pipeline somewhere of people to ring about Harlow.<BR/><BR/>When we'd almost finished talking, David asked me if I'd be willing to speak to one of the Times' reporters who was coming to the town the following day (today).<BR/><BR/>OK, said I, I'd love an opportunity to moan about nulab and Brown to the Times. Great , says David, and we agreed the reporter would come today at 10.30 amish. I went to put the phone down, then had a thought...<BR/><BR/>Who is the reporter?<BR/><BR/>David Aaronovitch, says he.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-12794522219981115782008-09-25T19:31:00.000+01:002008-09-25T19:31:00.000+01:00Hi Newmania! Been offline because my PC's sick and...Hi Newmania! Been offline because my PC's sick and in hospital, now back on via my daughter's PC and what do you know? Newmania's back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-6962294751921890212008-09-25T11:03:00.000+01:002008-09-25T11:03:00.000+01:00it's a pity when a new family cannot even buy a st...it's a pity when a new family cannot even buy a starter home because of the expense, instead has to throw their money away year after year to a rental property which in all reality is the same amount as most mortgage payments...propagating dependence seems to be the name of the game now a days...Daisyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15190578784452773984noreply@blogger.com