A bloody and bitter battle..?
- 17 Oct 07, 03:53 PM
This will be a bloody and a bitter battle. So I have been told again and again by leading Lib Dems looking forward - if that's the right phrase - to the battle ahead.
Chris Huhne's low key did not live up to this billing. He quietly and earnestly spelt out his vision before summing it up in nine words - a "fairer and greener society where people are in charge".
But then when asked about Sir Ming's downfall he added five more words which may just signal the wounds which may lie ahead. Ming, he said, had fallen "victim of a Camelot obsession". Think carefully about that phrase. He did not say that the ex-leader had fallen a victim of ageism. Instead, child of the 60s as he is, he referred to Camelot. That, of course, was the name given to the court of JFK whose presidency was identified with youth, good looks and glamour.
You don't think it's just possible that he might have been making a point about the future and not just the past, do you? Could he have been issuing a warning to his party to ignore all those glowing media write-ups for the candidate who is young, good looking and telegenic? I must ask Nick Clegg what he thinks.
