Comments on: Running scared http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/ Thoughts, notes and comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:14:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: davecole.org » blog » Blog Archive » Under the bridge http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1132 davecole.org » blog » Blog Archive » Under the bridge Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:06:53 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1132 [...] mean using people to pretend to be the grass roots.  Someone from the same IP address commented on this post of mine under two different names; while that is not proof anything, it is suspicious when the two names [...] [...] mean using people to pretend to be the grass roots.  Someone from the same IP address commented on this post of mine under two different names; while that is not proof anything, it is suspicious when the two names [...]

]]> By: davecole.org » blog » Blog Archive » I call shenanigans! http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1111 davecole.org » blog » Blog Archive » I call shenanigans! Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:19:20 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1111 [...] Hill has a statement from Team Boris on his London: Mayor & more blog further to this story about Boris pulling out of a hustings: “Boris was never due to attend the event on April 2nd as [...] [...] Hill has a statement from Team Boris on his London: Mayor & more blog further to this story about Boris pulling out of a hustings: “Boris was never due to attend the event on April 2nd as [...]

]]> By: dave http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1108 dave Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:33:32 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1108 TT @ 22, Sorry, you're comment was caught up in the spam filter. There does seem to be some astroturf being laid... xD. TT @ 22,

Sorry, you’re comment was caught up in the spam filter.

There does seem to be some astroturf being laid…

xD.

]]> By: dave http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1105 dave Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:04:39 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1105 Mike, It's true, and that was not Ken's finest moment. However, it was not an anti-Semitic remark, just an ill-chosen one and he had just been doorstepped. xD. Mike,

It’s true, and that was not Ken’s finest moment. However, it was not an anti-Semitic remark, just an ill-chosen one and he had just been doorstepped.

xD.

]]> By: Mike Withey http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1104 Mike Withey Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:21:55 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1104 "The risk of him committing a gaffe - as he does done in the past on many occasions - and costing London investment is real". Didn't he once compare a Jewish journalist to a Nazi concentration camp guard or something? “The risk of him committing a gaffe - as he does done in the past on many occasions - and costing London investment is real”.

Didn’t he once compare a Jewish journalist to a Nazi concentration camp guard or something?

]]> By: The Tory Troll http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1103 The Tory Troll Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:59:07 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1103 Time Out fight back: http://davehill.typepad.com/london3ms/2008/04/boris-johnson-t.html?cid=108999364#comments Thought you might want to know :) btw 'zach/ryan' has been spotted all over the place today. I wonder if we will see him again. Time Out fight back:

http://davehill.typepad.com/london3ms/2008/04/boris-johnson-t.html?cid=108999364#comments

Thought you might want to know :)

btw ‘zach/ryan’ has been spotted all over the place today. I wonder if we will see him again.

]]> By: dave http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1101 dave Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:34:27 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1101 Re your post at 19, I disagree. That would mean that no-one who'd had any senior position would be able to run. Police officers do have political views; are you seriously saying that they should not be able to comment on stop and search, for instance? Party political, no, but political, yes. xD. Re your post at 19, I disagree. That would mean that no-one who’d had any senior position would be able to run. Police officers do have political views; are you seriously saying that they should not be able to comment on stop and search, for instance? Party political, no, but political, yes.

xD.

]]> By: dave http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1100 dave Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:32:37 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1100 Graham, I will reply to you at greater length later. However, I'd like to ask for some evidence to back up some of your assertions. Firstly, what are the gaps in Sian's economic reasoning? Secondly, please give examples of those shrill blogs. Thirdly, when has Boris apologised for the Darius Guppy/Stuart Collier incident? You said: "Many on the Left disenchanted with or disenfranchised by New Labour seem to have chosen instead to adopt the posture of just attacking the right, or the perceived right, rather than facing up to the monumental shift in the Labour movement itself. We cling to totems that do not truly represent us whilst struggling desperately with the internal conflicts they bring upon us." So were you on the 'left'? Are you now? xD. Graham,

I will reply to you at greater length later. However, I’d like to ask for some evidence to back up some of your assertions.

Firstly, what are the gaps in Sian’s economic reasoning?

Secondly, please give examples of those shrill blogs.

Thirdly, when has Boris apologised for the Darius Guppy/Stuart Collier incident?

You said:
“Many on the Left disenchanted with or disenfranchised by New Labour seem to have chosen instead to adopt the posture of just attacking the right, or the perceived right, rather than facing up to the monumental shift in the Labour movement itself. We cling to totems that do not truly represent us whilst struggling desperately with the internal conflicts they bring upon us.”

So were you on the ‘left’? Are you now?

xD.

]]> By: Graham Matthews http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1099 Graham Matthews Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:32:11 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1099 As a parting but not Parthian shot, allow me to raise additional concern about Brian Paddock, as a counter to the focus on Boris. Personally I feel strongly that the police and politics should not mix. I get uncomfortable at the spectacle of a serving policeman publicly espousing political views and am little comforted when the espousal is being made by an ex-policeman. The police form such a critical part of the delivery of social solutions in London that the idea that an ex-policeman should become mayor and oversee the process fills me with concern. As a parting but not Parthian shot, allow me to raise additional concern about Brian Paddock, as a counter to the focus on Boris. Personally I feel strongly that the police and politics should not mix. I get uncomfortable at the spectacle of a serving policeman publicly espousing political views and am little comforted when the espousal is being made by an ex-policeman.

The police form such a critical part of the delivery of social solutions in London that the idea that an ex-policeman should become mayor and oversee the process fills me with concern.

]]> By: Graham Matthews http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1098 Graham Matthews Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:22:27 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/03/31/running-scared/#comment-1098 Oh, yes, and you took me to task for suggesting democratic process in polling, rightly so. I did not mean that. I meant that the polling showing Boris in the lead represents a predicted outcome predicated on the democratic process. In other words people are entitled to their opinions and entitled to express their voting preferences, whether or not the sampling proves to be accurate. The reaction to Boris' popular polling has sometimes bordered on the hysterical and seems to have become the focus of attention for the other candidates, rather than promoting their own policies and persuading us why we should vote for them. That is all I meant. Oh, yes, and you took me to task for suggesting democratic process in polling, rightly so. I did not mean that. I meant that the polling showing Boris in the lead represents a predicted outcome predicated on the democratic process. In other words people are entitled to their opinions and entitled to express their voting preferences, whether or not the sampling proves to be accurate. The reaction to Boris’ popular polling has sometimes bordered on the hysterical and seems to have become the focus of attention for the other candidates, rather than promoting their own policies and persuading us why we should vote for them. That is all I meant.

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