Forceful and moderate’s own George Galloway Libertycat (which presumably makes the fire headed Viv Rula Lenska) mentions an interesting quote from Oaten in the Guardian: Mr Oaten also warned that some Lib Dems were failing to live up to their liberal belief in individual freedom by falling in with “nanny state” proposals to ban smoking… Continue reading Third time lucky
Month: January 2006
Betting and the Big Mo
Rob Knight and Phil Grant add their opprobium to Jackie Ashley‘s latest nonsense about the evils of political betting. Quite right too. Yesterday I blogged about how articles about Lib-Lab talks made a welcome change from the constant chatter about a possible Lib-Con coalition. And who was I thinking of most when I wrote that?… Continue reading Betting and the Big Mo
Swinging in the wind
Rereading that 2001 BBC interview with Mark Oaten I linked to previously, some of the other bits are actually more revealing and important given the current context, than that silly Militant quote. Here we see Mark the principled crusader for Lib-Lab cooperation: He used to be a Lib-Lab “Project” man, but purely for instrumental purposes… Continue reading Swinging in the wind