Vaizey drops Cameron in it (again)

Sally Chatterjee

Nevermind, there are only two months to an election and the polls are close.

Berk. It's one thing to be candid, another thing to voice random opinions and conjecture. Vaizey must know full well how his quotes will be treated. If he can't give an interview properly, I doubt he can run an office, yet alone a ministry.

David Bouvier

This DOES sound like a relaxed Ed after a couple too many drinks. Idiot.

THX1138

Great David Bailey picture of Dave! Now why didn't he use that in the poster instead?

These quotes stood out for me when I read the piece over the weekend :

“What I’ve tried to do is marry a belief in market economics with the importance of a strong economy while restoring the condition of the Conservatives’ being social reformers and also addressing the future—climate change and the environment. It’s the full kind of package.”

and

“In U.S. terms, he could be a moderate Democrat,” says party adviser Ian Osborne.

I'm wavering again!

Publius

That's it, Mr Hoskin. Wheelan wasn't worth bothering with, but this bit of Village gossip is?

Laughing Larry

Ed is now worse than that "rations" idiot.

Andrew

Maybe Cameron should have put forth Mandleson for a quote. I think Ed Vaisey is proving he is a good candidate for the back benches.

Pete Hoskin

Publius: what do you mean "Whelan wasn't worth bothering with"? I wrote a post about him earlier today. Why not direct your ire at someone who, erm, didn't?

GeoffH

The quote from Nelson is much more 'unfortunate'.

Either Nelson doesn't have a clue - something I'm increasingly coming to suspect - or he was badly misquoted. He needs to sort this out or keep his mouth firmly shut in the presence of unknowing America journalists.

The one thing Cameron can not be accused of is an uncaring attitude towards the NHS. He has had too much first-hand experience for which he has expressed his gratitude to be anything other than a believer in universal health care.

Now, of course, that need not be the NHS structured as we know it today but any ideas of restructuring or reforming the delivery of universal health care are very far from being dismissive of the NHS, as Nelson so carelessly implies.

Richard Manns

Dear God, not satisfied with the first hole he dug, he's striking for oil!

I worry that such a man needs a gagging order; has he so little judgement that he cannot gag himself?

stephen

Does this not just confirm the view that came out of the "When Boris met Dave" TV prog. They just could not tie Cameron down! At a time when the Tories really need a conviction led patriotic poltician they have Dave! I would rather have Boris; at this rate he could be running the Party in early May!

Vulture

Does having an income north of squillions a year and an Oxfordshire seat make you ipso facto a blithering idiot? I mean, is it a compulsory qualification?

THX1139

Praise be! Just what CHers need to guide us after the long silence: a fresh piece of solipsism from the site's lodestar THX1138 updating us on his political anabasis from one vacuous poseur to another via the nearest transatlantic equivalent.

Talking of which, has anyone seen Lisa Hilton lately?

Zoo keeper (Elephant House)

I'm sorry. I've been away for a while.
Who is Ed Vaizey?

Holly ......

Being a bit more interested in the country's
finances.....
WHEN IS THE BUDGET?
'Unexpected' trade deficit widens?
Sterling falls?
Credit ratings agency warns UK credit profile has deteriorated?

Holly ......

It would appear the 'real Tories' are out of step with us 'pretend' Tories.

Right On

I find the strange thing about the Vaizey comments that they are probably planned.

You increasingly get the idea with Cameron that he's following the John McCain strategy - it doesn't matter what I say now you all know what I believe in so vote for me anyway. Very odd.

strapworld

I am sorry, I am truly not up to speed on the shadow cabinet, as we never see them. But is Mr Vaizey one of Cameron's homosexual shadow ministers?

If so, Andrew, your comment is decidedly risque`

Verity

Vulture, I'm not quite sure. I mean, it could be cause and effect. Otoh, it could be purely coincidental.

Either way, it is not good.

teledu

Crikey, I bet all those wavering Labour voters in the red heartlands of Scotland and northern England will choke on their kedgeree after reading their copy of ......
Vanity Fair! Sheeesh

Athesius the Facilitator

Who gives a big fat rats backside about any of this tittle tattle. It doesn't matter for Gods sake. All anybody with half a brain should be thinking about is getting rid of Gordon. Camerons the only option so even Verity should suck a lemon and lend Mr Cameron the vote. And please would you all stop moaning. Except Richard (who IS Ed Balls), he should keep saying the things he says, it cheers me up knowing that my secondary modern school education has left me a level headed normal decent taxpayer rather than the bitter and twisted 'grabber' that Balls private education has given him. Balls and his Mrs. What a disgusting pair of (grabbing) champagne socialists.

Victor Southern

For a very small fee I will accompany Vaizey every time he goes out of his house for the next 2 months. I will carry a leather gag.

For a trifle more I will surgically zip his lips closed leaving enough room for a straw. The man is loose-tongued fool. Cameron has another 3 of them close to him - they should be kept in the attic so that they don't frighten the troops.

Every bit of good that comes to us when Hain or Cooper or Balls appear in public is undone by one of these idiots.

Peter From Maidstone

I'm sorry. I've been away for a while.
Who is Ed Vaizey?

Why does the name make me think of a character from On the Buses?

Norman Dee

Mr Hoskin, there is a more than adequate supply of real stories being created all the time about real political idiocy, and most of them from those who are obviously your first choice for government, like Fondlebum and Balls, and the great joke of the highlands, Brown. So why don't you do something more creative than making mountains out of molehills, why not create history and go to the Guardian, be the first rat to join a sinking ship !

Holly ......

PFM,
His name makes me think of little Britain,
OMG..
the 'local shop'...I had to stop watching it in the end,because it made me throw....
literally.

Zoo keeper (Elephant House)

Victor Southern 7.14p.m.

Please talk sense man.
Can't have all and sundry up in the attic disturbing Mrs Rochester now, can we?

Andrew Taylor

What is Vanity Fair and who is Ed Vaizey?

Zoo keeper (Elephant House)

Andrew,

Could be that Vanity Fair is Verity's more tolerant sister, and Ed Vaizey drives the Number 52 which goes past her house.

Echo34

Holly,

you're thinking of the league of gentlemen which was set in royston vasey i believe.