And Another Thing…

A really nicely done piece; as always you come across as incredibly normal and like a human being, not like most of the other MPs, who appear oleaginous, creepy and venal.

I suppose the bubble of piety will burst. “Tom Harris in pizza-fuelled romp at Railway Magazine Christmas bash.” is depressingly imminent.

Good grief Tom, you are almost a Tory.
Taxi for McLetchie!.

Heroes: Tony Blair
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Sweet mother – what is you see that people like me (to whom he has never given a job) don’t see, have never seen, and never will see – and for no other reason than because it’s not there to see.

Great interview, very interesting reading – looking forward to tomorrow’s follow-up.

Very nice and illuminating interview Tom. I don’t comment much but I do catch up with your blog on a daily basis.

I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas!!

Kennedy’s quote is your favourite?

“ask not about what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country,”

I hate that quote, it goes against everything America was founded upon.

Surely a reasonable person would ask what their country can do for them as they pay taxes to fund what the country actually does.

Perhaps you can add a New Labour spin to it: “ask not what your country can do to you, but ask what you can do for your country”.

Any reason why Ralph Nader is your top villain?

…you have no idea what the phrase ‘misspent youth’ actually means until you’ve spent most of your youth as an evangelical Christian. !!
I like the way that’s influenced your political views – that’s closer to the true spirit in which the Party was founded, IMHO.

I remember Teddy Taylor as well, when he was an MP for a constituency in Essex. He was on the local news programmes a lot, and always came across well. Bit different to his Bufton Tufton-type colleagues.

“Ask what you can do for your country”. Did you sign the Scottish claim of right Tom? For the avoidance of doubt, which country would that be?

Paul
Tuesday 15 December 2009 at 3:56 pm
Any reason why Ralph Nader is your top villain?
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Now let me see; it was either

a) Campaigning to have rear-window elevated brake-lights fitted to the Plymouth Barracuda in 1956 or ….

b) Running in the 2000 US presidential election and splitting the non-republican vote thus ensuring George W Bush would be elected President.

a) is my guess.

Yes, Tom, you gave good interview.

A feature not mentioned above is your generous and appropriate praise for the Prime Minister and his mastery of the practical working situation you observed him in.

I recall Teddy Taylor, who decamped to Southend after his defenestration in his beloved Scotland.

If he could transfer his attention then anyone with any sense would imagine that Sir Iain Dale would climb down from his localist high horse and stand in any constituency which would have him, rather than insisting that he have “local connections.”

Taylor was probably too often honest to rise. After the miners’ strike was defeated he told some left wing councillors and supporters: “You’re next.”