Comments on: Charles Kennedy as the red squirrel of British Politics

By: Macarnie

Macarnie — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:34:25 +0000

Alas the cyanide pill was already there for self administration.Once taken , there’s no turning back. Such a nice guy too.

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By: Macarnie

Macarnie — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:30:45 +0000

After Charles’revelations this evening , prompted by ITV investigative journalism, let us hope that the red squirrel’s nuts do not turn out to be bitter almonds.

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By: Macarnie

Macarnie — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:47:52 +0000

For a so called Red Squirrel, he certainly defended his corner this morning on Radio 4.

He promises to come out fighting after the Commons opens again after he Holiday break , and he surely didn’t sound as if he intends to give the leadership up meekly to that grey squirrel in waiting,Simon Hughes, if it can at all be avoided.

As The Duke of Wellington said to Sam , ” Pick up thy Musket , and let battle commence”.

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By: John

John — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:51:08 +0000

“He is more endangered than the Giant Panda, whose laid-back style he so brilliantly emulates.”

Although he is clearly better at breeding…

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By: idlex

idlex — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:13:03 +0000

Boris wrote: Only Charles Kennedy is capable of bubble-gumming this coalition together.

I had thought that ‘bubble-gumming’ was a deprecated practice, indicating slipshod adhesion – until I read this at the start of Chapter 10 of 72 Virgins:

Whatever you said about the Brits, whatever their snobberies and limitations, they understood the relationship between the past and the present. They never pretended that their system of government was some ash-and-aluminum example of perfected modernity. They knew their democracy was an inherited conglomerate of traditions, bodged together, spatchcocked, barnacled and bubblegummed by fate and whimsy.

Clearly Charlie Kennedy belongs in the finest tradition of British democracy.

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By: idlex

idlex — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:33:16 +0000

I see. But if Rumsfeld’s got anything to do with it, Tamiflu won’t work any better than the US army in Iraq.

Happy Christmas everybody.

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By: Nora

Nora — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:32:14 +0000

Sorry, Mark. I hope you do have a good Christmas, notwithstanding.
Maybe he buys cryogenic storage space for Bush and Co.

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By: Mark Gamon

Mark Gamon — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:05:04 +0000

Jaq – obviously if Charlotte Church had bird flu I wouldn’t be in the slightest bit alarmed.

Nora – on the other hand… you’ve quite upset my Christmas. How much money does one man NEED, ferchrissake?

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By: Nora

Nora — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:00:56 +0000

idlex:

2 November 2005

“NEW YORK (Fortune) – The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it’s proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that’s now the most-sought after drug in the world.

“Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)’s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.

“The forms don’t reveal the exact number of shares Rumsfeld owns, but in the past six months fears of a pandemic and the ensuing scramble for Tamiflu have sent Gilead’s stock from $35 to $47. That’s made the Pentagon chief, already one of the wealthiest members of the Bush cabinet, at least $1 million richer.”

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00036.htm

[Verifiable from other sources via Google.]

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By: idlex

idlex — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:18:50 +0000

What’s Rumsfeld got to do with “Tamiflu”?

Now you’ve got me really worried.

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