Tag: Mark-Oaten
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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…
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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…
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The Liberal Dissenter reminds me of a Mark Oaten quote in 2001: According to Oaten, the Lib Dems lack the symbolic dragons that Labour leaders have in the past found useful to slay… “We haven’t got a Clause Four, Militants or rot at the core of the party,” he says. “Oddly enough, if we did…
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I’ve more or less given up on my attempt to blog the Meeting the Challenge paper – I found it too rigid a structure around which to frame my thoughts. But I did get stirred up by the plenary session at yesterday’s conference about narrative (more about which you can read here). In short, I…
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Shock! Horror! Could this be true? But it was Mark Oaten who made arguably the greatest impact with an appeal to rank-and-file party members dismayed at the treatment of Mr Kennedy. The home affairs spokesman said MPs had “let down” ordinary Liberal Democrats and should apologise for their show of disunity. Strange, that was the…