tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post3127000125113073777..comments2024-03-29T14:09:49.674+00:00Comments on Liberal England: In dejection near Polly ToynbeeJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-7547606101038397122009-09-30T11:57:48.396+01:002009-09-30T11:57:48.396+01:00Polly's grasp of the lives led by people outsi...Polly's grasp of the lives led by people outside her millieu has always been frail. Some of us remember her outrage when she stood for the Council (as an SDP candidate) in c.1982, and the electorate chose somebody else, thus missing out on her care and attention. She seemed genuinely perplexed at their failure to grasp the opprtunity to be represented by such a colossus.crewegwynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-51102882786817500272009-09-30T06:21:27.838+01:002009-09-30T06:21:27.838+01:00Breadcrumbs can be useful, but only when combined ...Breadcrumbs can be useful, but only when combined with something else tasty.dreamingspirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00324207120279777521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-14125713826618834752009-09-29T22:21:37.907+01:002009-09-29T22:21:37.907+01:00Let's face it she'll look as fashionable a...Let's face it she'll look as fashionable as bell-bottomed trousers next year and no one will listen to her. She is symptomatic of older people voting Labour because they've always voted Labour and holding back the change that is required.<br /><br />She's as stale as month-old bread that's been left out in the sun too long.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-79039430444742823262009-09-29T21:29:55.294+01:002009-09-29T21:29:55.294+01:00It looks like she's not even celebrating the i...It looks like she's not even celebrating the institutions, but the bricks and mortar.<br /><br />It seems that the celebration of institutions is something learned from a particular type of conservative - lending support to Milton Friedman's observation that the socialist (ie social democrat and state socialist) took the methods of the conservative to try and achieve the ends of the liberal.Tristanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15395992764678278326noreply@blogger.com