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Ok, so CK is toast. Who will replace him? I have taken wacky prices on betfair on laws and clegg. After all, someone has to challenge him. The new intake will not be happy to watch someone as hopeless as Hughes end being leader. The value on betfair about laws and clegg may have gone, but the conventional bookies will offer value cos they, wrongly believe, MC and Sh will win.
 
You can lay Ming Campbell with impunity - he's not standing!

(Though you'd have to be careful about a Kennedy win and Campbell becoming some sort of interim caretaker at a later date before the next real leader was elected. But you'd be abkle to get out of that I guess.)
 
My mate works for the liberal party, he asked Steve Radford (The Liberal leader) who he reckons will win.

Apparantly, had Radford stayed with the Liberal's when they joined the SDP, he himself would probably be the leader. However, as he is not, he reckons its down to two candidates:

Simon Hughes and
Lembit Opik
 
Or indeed "I kil to be PM"
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Watch this man. Any Lib Dem serious enough about being PM to kill those in their way would need to become a bigger mass murderer than Mao or Stalin. :o
 
Now a letter of no confidence form 11 front benchers - even Thatcher knew eventually that her time was up
 
Originally posted by Ardross@Jan 6 2006, 01:06 PM
Steve Radford would say that wouldn't he - who the hell is Steve Radford?
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To be fair, my mate thinks Radford would have been leader, not Radford thinking that. Probably should have been more clear.

The Liberal Party have written an open letter to Lib Dem members:

"The problem is not Mr Kennedy alone, but rather the lacklustre political philosophy he represents: Social Democracy.

Those Liberal Democrats who left the Liberal Party to pursue an experiment in social democracy now find that "new" Labour and the Tories have moved to occupy the social democratic middle ground and they are left without any real guiding philosophy or principle.

David Cameron now appears intent on picking over what Tony Blair has left on the corpse of social democracy while claiming to be the party of liberalism.

We urge any remaining liberals left in the Lib Dems to rejoin the liberal party and abandon this failed dream.

Daniel Wood,
Chairman of the Policy Committee, Liberal Party"

Looks like Kennedy is in for it, what's the over/under on his resignation time tonight? I say 6.15 :)
 
It is just ahead of the Socialist Labour Party headed by Scargill ( in fact does that still exist? )
 
Yes, the Liberal Party is very small. That said they have a lot more history than the UKIP, Greens or anyone else.

Sleeping giant? Maybe. They'll certainly help their cause if Kennedy refuses to budge.
 
Kennedy is certain to resign by Monday, he's dead meat and he knows it.

Lembit Opik would be an interesting leader, very sound on field sports.
 
Since no-one else has said it, I wish Charles Kennedy all the very best whether he wins or not.

He says he hasn't had a drink for two months but I reckon it would have helped him a lot more if he'd been in a position honestly to declare he hadn't had a drink for two years.

There but for the grace of God...
 
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