We didn't break a promise

[Jeneral2885]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11803719

Listen to the last part. Cable sounds so Tory.

[non sociopath skin]

1. There could be a good reason for that.

The Skin

[LeftishBrit]

2. I just came across a thread from January 2006 about Kennedy's resignation and possible successor

I posted at that time:

'NOT Vince Cable, anyway!!!!
Can't stand the man; might as well have Cameron'

(T-i-B posted in the same thread 'please, not Clegg!')

The fact that Cable is reasonable on a few issues, and at least more *competent* than some of the others in the Cabinet, had perhaps made people forget for a while that he is really pretty right-wing. In another thread of 2006, I described him as being to the LibDems 'what Blair is to Labour' - though that might describe Clegg better.

[T_i_B]

3. Well, at the time....

...I was becoming more suspicious of Clegg the more I saw of him. Back then he was as much of an orange booker as Cable or Laws, plus I considered his being parachuted into the safe seat of Sheffield Hallam rather whiffy. The previous MP for Sheffield Hallam was Richard Allen, who was only 39 at the time and could have had a bright future in Parliament ahead of him.

Why he felt the need to step down and by sheer coincidence one of the Lib Dem's bright young stars from Strasbourg given the golden parachute into what was by 2005 a safe seat I always thought rather odd.

[Nihil]

5. Hmmm ...

> The previous MP for Sheffield Hallam was Richard Allen, who was only 39 at
> the time and could have had a bright future in Parliament ahead of him.
>
> Why he felt the need to step down and by sheer coincidence one of the Lib Dem's
> bright young stars from Strasbourg given the golden parachute into what was by
> 2005 a safe seat I always thought rather odd.

One could enlarge on this "coincidence" - especially in the light of subsequent
events - but one wouldn't wish to be responsible for what would probably be the
first UK thread to be moved to the dungeon ...!

:hide:

[ikri]

4. Bizarre Reasoning

They're not bound to govern based on what they told the electorate in order to get into Westminster in the first place, instead they're bound by what they agreed with the Tories with no consultation with either the wider membership of their party or the people who voted for them.

They'd better get those directorships sorted out quickly because they're going to get slaughtered at the next election.