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| Britain’s Tory Opposition in for change of leadership |
| 2003-10-29 |
| Britain’s right will soon have a new leader. IDS’s been shown the door. EFL [Conservative Party Leader] Iain Duncan Smith has narrowly failed to win the backing of enough Tory MPs to save his job in a dramatic confidence vote at Westminster. Mr Duncan Smith, party leader for just over two years, was backed by 75 MPs but opposed by 90. The vote sparks the fourth Tory leadership election in eight years, with former home secretary Michael Howard emerging as the strong favourite. |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #9 Worth a try, OP, but I suspect that George has made a pact with someone somewhere that might make him invulnerable to that sort of thing... |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-10-30 3:44:19 AM |
| #8 Bulldog, would you like a nice Druid curse placed on ole George? Don't know how well they work long distance, but I'd be glad to give it a try. I'm not an easy guy to rattle, but some of my ancestors give me the screaming willies! Guess that works for their enemies, too... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-10-29 10:37:48 PM |
| #7 Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2003-10-29 8:48:33 PM |
| #6 More seriously though, I wonder whether he's actually starting an Islamo-centric political entity. The sanity-challenged rhetoric fits admirably; the reference to "foreign elites" and "an increasingly exclusive international club" could be anti-Zionist or anti-EU or anti-US, or anti-Globalization, a mix, or intended to be refering to whatever the listener chooses to assume they're a reference to; he says "[t]his level will unite Muslims, Christians and Jews...", giving Muslims priority over the rest; and add this to the fact that he is rumoured to have converted to Islam and carries a Koran about with him at all times... There's not much money for being just another socialistic moonbat with unrealistic ideas of importance, but I bet he reckons there's a moneyspinning aspect to being the UK's voice of Islam. He's probably asked the Saudi cash dispenser currently in Washington to pay a visit to London sometime in the near future... |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-10-29 8:37:30 PM |
| #5 Bulldog, ROTFLMAO. |
| Posted by: Matt 2003-10-29 8:11:11 PM |
| #4 Matt, I tried reading the quotes out loud using my best Dundee accent, and it still doesn't make much sense to me, either. Next time I have a few too many beers, I'll try again. See if that helps. I think I understood a few snippets here and there, though: he's got a veiled Jewish conspiracy thing going, so far as I can tell, and I think he wants a bloody- or bloodless-revolution (probably doesn't matter which really), and he wants to um... unite, and to liberate domestics. If I can find a proper translation, I'll get back to you. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-10-29 7:49:02 PM |
| #3 Bulldog, my British English must be slipping. I just read all of the Galloway quotes in the AJ article and I have no idea what the guy is saying. Is there a Galloway dictionary in print? |
| Posted by: Matt 2003-10-29 7:28:41 PM |
| #2 He can call it the Al-Qaeda Fan Club. Yvonne can be a cheerleader. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-10-29 7:28:24 PM |
| #1 LOL - I see this is small beer for al Jazeera, whose main story at the mo is a trashpiece from the chewed pen of Yvonne Ridley: "Rebel Galloway launches political party. Rebel MP George Galloway has announced the launch of a new political movement which could change the face of British politics for ever." ...or not, as the case might be. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-10-29 7:09:27 PM |