I saw from your tweet that ms moir had said something awful again but I had no desire to go looking to her paper for what it was so I'm glad (?) you mention it here and I am equally shocked and appalled though I refuse to move to Tunbridge wells as I'm in another country but I will visit you there....
As for the rest I have to say I can't imagine what kind of upbringing you had that suggested you vote for what you want and not for your fathers (or mothers) preferred party - I'm so tired of party lines in Ireland. However I too have been coming to the lib dem conclusion for a while now and was pleased to see Clegg being taken seriously for the first time in the UK. Wish we could get something similar started here...
Ms Moir should only dream of being as good a woman as any of the three role model and impressive women who are married to the three party leaders. But I fear she is incapable of seeing that high.
As for the rest I have to say I can't imagine what kind of upbringing you had that suggested you vote for what you want and not for your fathers (or mothers) preferred party - I'm so tired of party lines in Ireland.
I have no idea exactly how my parents vote, but from hints and clues in the past, I strongly suspect one votes FF and the other votes FG. If only I could be sure which is which... but I think that answers your question. I grew up with no party allegiance whatsoever. The Ma always told me that one of the great things about STV was that you could vote for a good TD even if you wouldn't touch their party with a bargepole normally.
You lucky devil. My dad was active FF and so was my best friends dad. When I grew up I dumped politics as I had lived with it for so long. Mum's family were all Labour - the arguments were often long and loud (not between mum and dad but dad and uncles)
Now I feel trapped when I look at voting. My local td is a great guy - works hard - is FF. My local councillor is FG. I can't stand either party and don't like Labour. I always try to vote for the person not the party but I am tired of having that elect such dross as government. I want to throw out all the parties - put the members in a bag and create new from scratch with no allegiances or affiliations.
I'd damn well vote for Glenda Jackson if I had the chance, yes. As for lingerie restocks, oh yes, if you find something that actually *fits*, you buy more than one, in multiple colors, so that you don't have to do it again.
As for the main thrust of your post: yes. That's disgusting behavior and needs to stop, everywhere. I don't know how to stop it? But it does need to end.
Having interviewed Glenda Jackson twice, I would NOT vote for her, and that has nothing to do with her political stance. Golly what a humourless martinet. I'll queue hours to see her on stage, mind you.
You should NOT read the Daily Fail, and if you must, you should especially NOT read that vile hag. That piece, which I read, but I'm supposed to check out what I laughingly refer to as "the competition" wasn't even a success on Daily Fail terms. (You may loathe Melanie Phillips - I rather like her, ekshally - but at least she wouldn't even think of going there.) It was stupid, unfocussed, trying to be an equal-opportunity bit of sneering, and did not succeed on any level. As it happens - well, if this still comes as a surprise, I want some of the stuff you've been smoking all this time - I think Nick Clegg is an unprincipled flash in the pan, and a Lib-Con alliance would play on Cameron's and Osborne's worst shilly-shallying instincts. (A Lib-Lab alliance I would regard as one more sign of the impending apocalypse.) I still thought the jibes at the Clegg family low and stupid, the one at Sarah Brown possibly the most misogynistic of the three, and the one at SamCam evidence of Moir's innate rancid envy. But the campaign is NOT Glenda
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I know. But it's not just the Daily Fail and it's not just that vile hag. Cristina Odone has proved magnificently that she has no concept of the internet - or actual facts - with her attacks on Dr Evan Harris in the Telegraph blogs
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Aargh, St Vince of Cable, aka "Wireless". What a bloomin' hypocrite.
And yes, I am entirely with you on the Cameroons. I have a longtime friend (and former editor) who's a dripping wet Tory, and he's been all about the Cameroons for years, without stirring even a breeze in my book.
BoJo would be a first-rate PM. Superb intellect, cuts through the waffle, understands instinctively a lot of things about what I'll call decency (Cameron probably does, but it's reasoned; Osborne hasn't a clue), can put his foot down even when it's in his mouth. And he has a sense of humour, which I find essential in a politician. (Hey, Maggie was a lifelong fan of Yes, Minister and Yes, PM...)
Jan Moir is scum, to put it bluntly. She's either too stupid or thick-skinned to learn from the uproar over her vile "article" over Stephen Gately. I suspect its both.
I can't help but think that if one had to be "of Tunbridge Wells" to express the appropriate level of disgust for Ms Moir, then the time really would have come to abandon this isle. As you note this isn't a party political issue and even those like myself whose political complexion tends to the cyanotic can respectably heap opprobrium on the author of this poisonous drivel.
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As for the rest I have to say I can't imagine what kind of upbringing you had that suggested you vote for what you want and not for your fathers (or mothers) preferred party - I'm so tired of party lines in Ireland. However I too have been coming to the lib dem conclusion for a while now and was pleased to see Clegg being taken seriously for the first time in the UK. Wish we could get something similar started here...
Ms Moir should only dream of being as good a woman as any of the three role model and impressive women who are married to the three party leaders. But I fear she is incapable of seeing that high.
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I have no idea exactly how my parents vote, but from hints and clues in the past, I strongly suspect one votes FF and the other votes FG. If only I could be sure which is which... but I think that answers your question. I grew up with no party allegiance whatsoever. The Ma always told me that one of the great things about STV was that you could vote for a good TD even if you wouldn't touch their party with a bargepole normally.
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Now I feel trapped when I look at voting. My local td is a great guy - works hard - is FF. My local councillor is FG. I can't stand either party and don't like Labour. I always try to vote for the person not the party but I am tired of having that elect such dross as government. I want to throw out all the parties - put the members in a bag and create new from scratch with no allegiances or affiliations.
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As for the main thrust of your post: yes. That's disgusting behavior and needs to stop, everywhere. I don't know how to stop it? But it does need to end.
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And yes, I am entirely with you on the Cameroons. I have a longtime friend (and former editor) who's a dripping wet Tory, and he's been all about the Cameroons for years, without stirring even a breeze in my book.
BoJo would be a first-rate PM. Superb intellect, cuts through the waffle, understands instinctively a lot of things about what I'll call decency (Cameron probably does, but it's reasoned; Osborne hasn't a clue), can put his foot down even when it's in his mouth. And he has a sense of humour, which I find essential in a politician. (Hey, Maggie was a lifelong fan of Yes, Minister and Yes, PM...)
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