While You Were Sleeping
The stench of hyperbole
- The debate's underway in the blogosphere over the Gould report into Scottish elections released yesterday. Iain Dale: "Douglas Alexander has Blood On His Hands and should resign!" Kezia Dugdale, however, has not only read the report but appears to be a bit of an expert in these matters agrees that there was much chaos but points out that Alex Salmond is not without blame in the fiasco either, and Fair Deal Phil fingers Boy George Osborne.
- Tom Bower, author of the excellently written, fair, balanced and completely impartial biography of the Gord, at once sniffs the Stench of Corruption in Westminster. Tom, Westmonster begs you, for the love of everything sacred, don't write a book about it.
- Cameron to LibDem voters: "my hair is more luxuriant than Nicky's and Huhne's!"
- And well Cameron might flirt with them because his own party are a bit pissed off with him.
- Revolts on the first post-Summer Commons rebellion.
- Chris Paul is confused as to why Conservatives see the epithet "Scottish" as akin to "baby murderer."
- The students are angry over the increase in the rate of interest on their student loans. So, what do they do? Have a wild guess.
- Pickled Politics on how Nad Dorries is entirely fatuous. Coming up: Bears shit in the woods.
- Liberal Democrat Voice on swinging in Southport.
- Ministry of Truth on homophobia.
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Hmm. Yes, "Where's Wee Dougie Alexander?" can really be interpreted as "Douglas Alexander has Blood On His Hands and should resign!" can't it? Hyperbole indeed.
"Kezia Dugdale, however, has not only read the report but appears to be a bit of an expert"
If she were such an expert that read it why did she miss all this?
Page 17 - "What is characteristic of 2007 was a notable level of party self interest evident in Ministerial decision-making (especially in regard to the timing and method of counts and the design of ballot papers)."
Page 30 - "it became clear that both the Scotland Office and the Scottish Executive were frequently focused on partisan political interests"
Page 40 - "The final version of the combined ballot sheet was devised by the Scotland Office...This caused problems because the Scotland Office worked independently with DRS on this issue without adequately communicating its decisions on the combined ballot paper to Returning Officers"
Page 45 - "...timetable slippages due the Scotland Office’s requests for DRS to investigate variant ballot paper designs which Ministers seemed keen to pursue."
Page 49 - "In our view, the Scotland Office (working with the Electoral Commission) and the Scottish Executive were remiss in not commissioning a much larger and joint study on the impact on the voter of the ballot papers and mixed marking requirements."
It's quite clear that it is highlighting the partisanship of Douglas Alexander who was also directing Labour's election campaign. Shades of Katherine Harris in Florida anyone?
Looks like Keiza's an expert at evasion and thinking people are idiots. (Present company excepted)
But then her boss just got destroyed for complaining about the very system that means he became an MSP.