tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post6256973528348000260..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Chloe Smith: Flatpack PoliticianDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-79776592820730741572009-08-14T13:06:56.897+01:002009-08-14T13:06:56.897+01:00I have a Tory pal who did some volunteering for th...I have a Tory pal who did some volunteering for the by-election. They told me that CCHQ used standardized templates for the main issue areas, so whenever a potential voter wrote in all they did is stick the address on it and send it out, Chloe didn't touch them!Mr Crowleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16824512228701135749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-46522554776639350412009-08-12T16:56:27.191+01:002009-08-12T16:56:27.191+01:00Chloe Smith wries what she does because it takes l...Chloe Smith wries what she does because it takes less time than thinking.<br /><br />Also, she has a dinner date to go to, and she needs to put o her face and clothes to appear nice, and all this replying to constituents and others is an effing pain and gets in the way of real life for her....<br /><br />She's aged 7, what did you expect?David Davishttp://libertarianalliance.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-1473481450153749012009-08-10T13:07:55.123+01:002009-08-10T13:07:55.123+01:00Oops!
Wrong link. Try this:
http://www.ft.com/cm...Oops!<br /><br />Wrong link. Try this:<br /><br />http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bb67a988-7b0e-11de-8c34-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1<br /><br />Sorry.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-74448355942140879312009-08-10T01:12:53.456+01:002009-08-10T01:12:53.456+01:00I have just left a comment 'bla bla'. This...I have just left a comment 'bla bla'. This is because I have tried before to make a comment on this site and been flumoxed by the apparent need to have a Google Account. <br />I a a novice.<br />I see 'Choose an identity'. I see 'No Google Account - sign up here'. I do not know what 'Open ID' means. I do not know what 'Name/URL' means. I know what the word 'Anonymous' means in normal circumstances, but I am not sure what it means in internet language.<br />It would be wonderful for us novices (nb. not stupids), if you could amend your comments section to read just a little differently. <br /><br />For example, you could say 'CHOOSE AN IDENTITY', and follow it with, "If you have a Google or Blogger aAccount, you can....". Or, you can use 'OPenID, which means..." etc.<br />It would greatly assist us novices to know what to do.Junicannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-68430901738071782062009-08-10T00:46:04.543+01:002009-08-10T00:46:04.543+01:00Bla BlaBla BlaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-25953198510493483292009-08-09T18:12:56.522+01:002009-08-09T18:12:56.522+01:00They just love the 40,000 number don't they, w...They just love the 40,000 number don't they, what a bunch of parrots, thanks for showing where the new parrot fits in Dick.<br /><br />California Reduces Prisoners<br />Overcrowding in California's prisons cause at least one unnecessary death per week, according to a three-judge panel that released a report this week calling on the Golden State to drastically cut its prison population over the next two years. Under their guidelines, Criminal Justice blogger Matt Kelley writes, California would be expected to reduce the size of its prison population by 40,000 inmates, or 27 percent. Could this plan mean that California will reduce the number of nonviolent offenders it's currently throwing in jail? <br /><br />Some-one dies unnecessary every week in Jail, I thought it was only smokers, drinkers and fat people that died!vincent1https://www.blogger.com/profile/03591077762608116836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-72507114493267103692009-08-09T15:03:17.203+01:002009-08-09T15:03:17.203+01:00On the bright side, we now have an mp who knows ho...On the bright side, we now have an mp who knows how to cut and paste.<br /><br />Sorry, I meant another mp..BTSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-53088313298560716872009-08-09T13:14:38.934+01:002009-08-09T13:14:38.934+01:00There was a fine article in the FT recently, point...There was a fine article in the FT recently, pointing out that Chloe Smith is a <a href="http://markwadsworth.blogspot.com/search/label/VAT" rel="nofollow">photofit cloned drone party apparatschick</a>.<br /><br />Worth a read.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-57256922007715856812009-08-09T02:19:47.467+01:002009-08-09T02:19:47.467+01:00All this demonstrates is that Chloe's view on ...All this demonstrates is that Chloe's view on the dangers of passive smoking are so inherently sensible that all right-thinking people, such as the clearly intelligent Ms. Moreno Perez, will arrive at the same conclusion, sometimes even word for word.Antipholus Pappshttp://antipholus.livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-27247473578871658582009-08-08T23:55:41.669+01:002009-08-08T23:55:41.669+01:00Pavlov: Self-promote as much as you like here, you...Pavlov: Self-promote as much as you like here, you'll never get me complaining.<br /><br />Especially as your piece was superb. I'm just gutted that I didn't see it earlier.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-77976379189792558102009-08-08T21:57:12.108+01:002009-08-08T21:57:12.108+01:00Hang on, Chris, are you saying that Simon blocks y...Hang on, Chris, are you saying that Simon blocks you? Interesting, given that I had all my comments wiped from a thread on 'The Free Society' site and whenever I tried to comment, found that I'd been banned (the irony..). This was before the apparent, subsequent policy not to have comments.<br /><br />I have reason to believe that Simon, for all his so-called libertarianism, does heaveily moderate comments. BTW I post as Joyce on 'Taking Liberties' but Jay, elsewhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-39719776042368949332009-08-08T21:47:24.065+01:002009-08-08T21:47:24.065+01:00She is a golem , nothing more nothing less and she...She is a golem , nothing more nothing less and she won't be the last. <br /><br />My take on it here <a href="http://pavlovscat2.blogspot.com/2009/07/empty-space-wins-by-election.html" rel="nofollow">Empty Space wins By-Election</a> <br /><br />(apols once again Dick for using your blog for shameless self promotion)Pavlov's Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162563403722211352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-46075204153367115162009-08-08T21:21:16.178+01:002009-08-08T21:21:16.178+01:00Dick, I have to confess that I was the recipient o...Dick, I have to confess that I was the recipient of the reply from Lara Moreno Perez to my e-mail about the smoking ban. When I saw the post on Taking Liberties about the new MP Chloe Smith, I was astonished at the similarities in both documents. So I posted under the name Benedict highlighting their hypocrisy. Why Benedict…because Simon Clark thinks I’m too rude and vulgar – OK?<br /><br />My point is this. These supposedly intelligent people who run our lives, are completely bereft of any common sense whatsoever.<br /><br />Does it not occur to them, that in this age of communication sooner or later this rubber stamp politics will surface somewhere in the blogosphere and be seen for what it is?<br /><br />I don’t know whether to blame Chloe Smith or Central Office, or perhaps both. What would be wrong with her own PERSONAL VIEW about the smoking ban? This isn’t democracy it’s – hypocrisy!<br /><br />Now, another lemsip and back to bed…I’ve had a stinking cold for two weeks now.<br /><br />Brrr..brr..brr…hold on a minute…Oh, hello mum, yes that’s right I did leave a message…I’m asking you what you think about the smoking ban…what’s that, "I have yet to be convinced that passive smoking is not harmful,”…Ok mum that’s enough…please shut up! "Furthermore, Professor Robert West, Cancer Research UK's..."<br /><br />Click!<br /><br />Good post Dick, thanks.Chris:https://www.blogger.com/profile/16788771701805696946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-39967000162675460942009-08-08T21:01:04.887+01:002009-08-08T21:01:04.887+01:00Lets not waste any time scraping
the sky blue poop...Lets not waste any time scraping<br />the sky blue poop of this Chloe<br />Schmidt ,Pharmas tartlette.<br />She's just another middler fiddling the same tune ,conducted<br />by the same magicians. Can some<br />Anglian hero give the silly heffer<br />a few frets.<br /><br /><br />Gordian Knot SlicerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-68690145965335447662009-08-08T20:40:19.679+01:002009-08-08T20:40:19.679+01:00"There is no honesty left" really DP, yo...<em>"There is no honesty left" really DP, you expect honesty from todays politicians?</em><br /><br />Good point WFW. I suppose Chloe Smith's identikit response isn't entirely unexpected, but for a party which wishes itself to be seen as departing from the disregard of the electorate that has gone before (as all the main three try to tell us), it is a particularly egregious example.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-22644505956258397862009-08-08T20:33:50.322+01:002009-08-08T20:33:50.322+01:00Correction to my last - twas in 2006!Correction to my last - twas in 2006!Witterings from Witneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349563961787006775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-43621781672878379952009-08-08T20:26:50.275+01:002009-08-08T20:26:50.275+01:00DP,
Back in 2005 I wrote to Cameron, Hague, Heald...DP,<br /><br />Back in 2005 I wrote to Cameron, Hague, Heald and Richard Benyon about the Legislative & Regulatory Reform Bill - and the odious content therein - and received identical letters back!<br /><br />"There is no honesty left" really DP, you expect honesty from todays politicians? (With one or two exceptions, naturally)Witterings from Witneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349563961787006775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-70296939874172717102009-08-08T20:25:21.192+01:002009-08-08T20:25:21.192+01:00"..... it's why politicians are rated abo..."..... it's why politicians are rated about as highly by the public as Jehovah's Witness doorsteppers"<br /><br />Poor simile.<br /><br />JW's cost the taxpayer nothing; troughing, tax-evading, home-switching, excess-expenses claiming politicians are poor value.<br /><br />[Also, if you close the door on a JW, he/she goes away; you're stuck with politicians 'til the next election.]Joe Publicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-87002237763545159222009-08-08T19:50:06.119+01:002009-08-08T19:50:06.119+01:00And "open primaries" are likely to land ...And "open primaries" are likely to land us with more bland, identikit, middle-of-the-road politicians rather than those with genuine principles. Alan Clark and Denis Skinner would never have got through an open primary.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-62515322843898207032009-08-08T17:56:50.179+01:002009-08-08T17:56:50.179+01:00It's important to note that this isn't abo...It's important to note that this isn't about whether she agrees with the smoking ban, is indifferent, or that she vehemently opposes it. That is irrelevant.<br /><br />It's the smug dismissal of voters with party circulated prepared answers which bothers me. There is no honesty left.<br /><br />I've no doubt she is capable of writing a letter in her own words, so why just regurgitate what emanates from central office?Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-16861929739793260082009-08-08T17:11:40.693+01:002009-08-08T17:11:40.693+01:00I saw Martin V's letter to Chloe and was not s...I saw Martin V's letter to Chloe and was not surprised at her response and was so incensed by it I reproduced it, word for word, over at the Freedom To Choose forum.<br /><br />No matter what anyone says there is a common bond between the political parties, especially the so called 'top three' and it would appear that their language is so similar when responding to constituents concerns that is most worrying for democracy in this country.<br /><br />I fret over the future as I think we are heading for a totalitarian state run by like minds, not the voter.<br /><br />Worrying times indeed.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-67116775142923796812009-08-08T16:59:23.752+01:002009-08-08T16:59:23.752+01:00I met Chloe in Norwich a couple of months ago and ...I met Chloe in Norwich a couple of months ago and she never struck me a s a party political asswipe. I think it is very sad that the youngest member of parliament is already entrenched in "Alice Sheffield speak". Dear oh dear me!handymanphilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01366547228505237107noreply@blogger.com