Balding politicos

I think this hair thing is something dreamed up by the media so they can avoid talking about the real issues. Also, other than the euro, hair is probably about the only thing that devides IDS and KC. (I'm not at all sure thats true, other than the euro, I have no idea what they stand for).

John Smith never fought an election but I'd like to think that he'd have wonif he'd stayed alive long enough. maybe not as well as tony blair but then maybe we'd have a social democratic goverment rather than an opportunistic populist one.

Newt Gingrichs' hair has one many political battles. Its a creature

Duncan Smith is unreconstructed military "family values" straight back 1958-timewarping Tebbitist: also very Euro-sceptic indeed (though not *quite* as much as the fanatics like Gerald Howarth and Andrew Rosindell). Clarke is obviously pro-European, and also comparatively socially liberal and broad-minded, certainly less far to the right, and under him the Tories would probably win back considerably more floating voters than under Duncan Smith. Given that the Labour majority here over the Tories is only 153, I suppose I've got to go for IDS, hate him as I do.

You're not in Hague's constituency, are you, Billy?

Hard to believe now that the Tories appointed a leader in 1965 to oppose Harold Wilson who was from a similar social background to Wilson (i.e. grammar school not public school - quite a thing back then, still, for a top-level politician), the same age, and didn't have the seemingly now obligatory smiling wife and children, to replace an out-of-touch aristocratic old buffer. Edward Heath was appointed by a different Tory party: one which believed in winning elections, not sucking up to an ageing hardcore. IDS is the face of a Britain whose demise I pretty much celebrate unreservedly, and the word "demise" accurately sums up his probable effect on the party.

Ed is right about John Smith. A great lost Prime Minister, who would never have achieved the size of majority that Blair has, but would have given us a true social democratic government with, you know, founding principles and stuff. But it's good to see the rest of the party increasingly disagreeing with Blair: a strong parliamentary party *has* to challenge its leader sometimes or it is worthless, and there are many issues where they are quite right to do so. I think everyone agreed by the time of John Smith's death in 1994 that Labour would have won the next election: the Tories were falling apart in office, and even the Sun, yet to cross the floor to Labour but increasingly turning against Blair, acknowledged (I think) at the time that he would have been "Britain's next Prime Minister".

Yup afraid I am Robin. The leisure centre his count took place in is only 500 yard from my house.

My wife works for the council and he's often in seeing the council's chief exec and by all accounts he's an arrogant cunt. Needless to say I didn't vote for him but he still increased his majority. This is as safe a tory seat as you're likely to get.

I don't care if they have hair or not, but ginger people should not be let near positions of power...

(Sorry, that Charles Kennedy was on the telly again last night, and although I agree with lots of what he says, I just cannot get around the fact that he has yellow eyelashes and orange hair. That's not right.)

Shiny shiny, shiny head of Tories.

IDS has a website now, the wired fellow. We should scupper his political chances by getting him on ILE and then when he gets addicted showing his dolphin-sex-dream revelations to the newspapers.

Dontcha mean weird fellow, Tom?

Having taken the line since the election that we need a stronger opposition to keep Blair and his wee pals in line, faced with the prospect of the Tory party either tearing itself apart over Europe or stealing votes back from the BNP and rendering itself unelectable, I can only say BRING IT ON. And big up the liberals.

But yeah, that Bald Bloke. What a freak.

Such hatred........

......Bitter, bitter, bitter ......

M.A.N.I.P.U.L.A.T.I.N.G them......

Byebye now i love baldies ...