Comments on: A Question of Honesty http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/02/10/a-question-of-honesty/ "crass, boorish and more a bruiser than blogger" - Alex Wilcock Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:55:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Brian http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/02/10/a-question-of-honesty/#comment-990 Brian Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:40:25 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/02/10/a-question-of-honesty/#comment-990 The comments are *still* on Simon's website: http://www.simonhughesforleader.com/wordpress/?p=25#more-25 "Speaking at the launch of his themes paper Mr Hughes said: ....“Members have to make a choice. Do they want a leader for this parliament and this generation or do they want a caretaker? Do they want a leader with 30 years experience of campaigning up and down the United Kingdom, someone who has shown to be able to relate to people, or do they want a leader who has held a highly marginal seat in parliament for just nine months, lacks campaigning experience and has no evidence of relating well to the British public." Simon wasn't going to get a preference from me anyway, but he's now lost any respect I had for him aswell. The comments are *still* on Simon’s website:
http://www.simonhughesforleader.com/wordpress/?p=25#more-25

“Speaking at the launch of his themes paper Mr Hughes said:
….“Members have to make a choice. Do they want a leader for this parliament and this generation or do they want a caretaker? Do they want a leader with 30 years experience of campaigning up and down the United Kingdom, someone who has shown to be able to relate to people, or do they want a leader who has held a highly marginal seat in parliament for just nine months, lacks campaigning experience and has no evidence of relating well to the British public.”

Simon wasn’t going to get a preference from me anyway, but he’s now lost any respect I had for him aswell.

]]> By: Andy Mayer http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/02/10/a-question-of-honesty/#comment-978 Andy Mayer Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:11:18 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/02/10/a-question-of-honesty/#comment-978 Be fair, Simon made these remarks back in a time when it was unusual for MPs to come clean about their personal attacks on each other. He didn't so much lie as try and keep this aspect of his personality private. It is a source of great regret that people who engage in the practice of diminuation of their opponents may now be put off politics by this unreasonable media scrutiny and intrusion. Be fair, Simon made these remarks back in a time when it was unusual for MPs to come clean about their personal attacks on each other. He didn’t so much lie as try and keep this aspect of his personality private. It is a source of great regret that people who engage in the practice of diminuation of their opponents may now be put off politics by this unreasonable media scrutiny and intrusion.

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