Comments on Tory Bear - right-wing political gossip: How's this for a Moral Compass?

If Compass think that Alan Johnson would make a go...

2009-11-21T12:37:47.771Z

If Compass think that Alan Johnson would make a good PM after the #nuttsacking disaster they clearly need their collective head looking at. Oh, and there is this too (hat-tip to the Private Eye): as a constituency MP he made a "life or death appeal" to save a man in his constituency from deportation. As Home Secretary he has now decided to deport this same man to the very real risk of torture. How about that for betrayal?

See also Mark Reckons on this.

P.S. As a Lib Dem I don't want to touch this Labour government with a bargepole, and the "liberal socialists" are not liberals.

"they could back the home secretary" Th...

2009-11-19T16:02:40.390Z

"they could back the home secretary"

The challenge would not be their backing, but whether he would front them. Alan Johnson isn't going to stab Gordon in the back. He'll use him as a sandbag and arise as the saviour of Labour after the General Election, without needing Compass's support.

"or the foreign secretary"

Milliband blew it with his two previous periods of prevarication. If any Milliband stands now, it'll be Ed. And he's not going to cozy up to Compass either.

"A shift to the left would be the final nail in the coffin"

I would like nothing more than to hand Compass a hammer.

My real concern is that the Liberal Socialists seem to want to drag the Lib Dems into the same decaying orbit.

Johnson is very pro PR. He gave a speech at Hull U...

2009-11-18T02:06:54.208Z

Johnson is very pro PR. He gave a speech at Hull University the other week where he ruled out a vote on it at the general as it would split the party.

Will compass find anyone electable who is as much ...

2009-11-17T22:06:47.271Z

Will compass find anyone electable who is as much of a leftie as Mr Brown.