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No geek is an island » Blog Archive » Seventy-one percent — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:13:27 +0000

[...] He pledged that by the end of his term of office the LibDem’s membership would exceed that of Labour. Fair enough, he hasn’t left office yet, but there is no sign of us making any significant move towards this. This is the sort of grand talk - see his declaration on Sky News that we should win 100 seats in the next general election - that can come back to bite. I recall Simon also promising a youth branch at every university. Has this been achieved? No. What steps has Simon taken to make it happen? None that I’m aware of. [...]

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:57:06 +0000

“Grace Says:
January 17th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
I have seen who you are supporting Will - well done! ”

It’s not Jack or Karen is it?

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:02:49 +0000

I have seen who you are supporting Will - well done!

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:17:59 +0000

You can’t have a good debate between four people - I’d like to see all the candidates take on each other one on one.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:42:34 +0000

I thought the format was pretty crap - more of a ‘joint interview’ than a debate - as Rob says, there wasn’t much opportunity for interaction between the candidates.

Huhne was good - confident and quite succinct. Oaten put some flesh on the bones of ’21st century liberalism’ - even if, as with his comments on the NHS, it’s probably going to be unpopular in the party. Simon gives a really confident performance, but I cant help thinking he makes it up as he goes along (women candidates between May and conference?). Ming was okay, but looked slightly comfortable to me.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:31:30 +0000

I’d love to us to get 100 seats at the next election, but I don’t think that, say, 90 - nearly a 50% increase - could be labelled a failure, but if you’ve specified 100 as your target, then it is. That’s why CK wouldn’t give a figure to the press before the 2005 election and why Ming didn’t give a figure this evening.

By: Rob F

Rob F — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:13:08 +0000

PS - I agree there was no clear winner. I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that the Sky presenter spent too much time talking herself, to allow the candidates to put points directly to one another.

By: Rob F

Rob F — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:07:11 +0000

Hughes didn’t limit our ambitions to 100 seats. He identified it as the low-water mark of the next election. ie we should seek to gain *AT LEAST* 100 seats.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:56:29 +0000

Yes - I thought Huhne looked the most relaxed and got his points across effectively. If you didn’t know it you ceratinly wouldn’t have guessed that he was supposedly a poor media performer.

Hughes came across positively but, as you say, it’s a bit early in the Parliament for a new leader to be limiting their ambitions to 100 seats!

Oaten - class swot?

Campbell - safe enough but looked drab compared to H&H. Contradicted himself on the women issue - first he said we had failed, then he said that we had just got a load of young women into Parliament.