tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post2562593438065899103..comments2023-10-30T14:03:37.394+00:00Comments on Lindylooz Muze: Cleggites VindicationLinda Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05155438246679688058noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post-5262328634740966002009-06-03T10:17:52.753+01:002009-06-03T10:17:52.753+01:00"None of us had any notion of the political m..."None of us had any notion of the political maelstrom our chosen leader would be required to navigate".<br /><br />I think you will find my comments around the time of the leadership election centred on it, and the way I felt the leadership election should be about that rather than about the relatively trivial things it was about. It should have been about how we could deal with the huge crisis in confidence over democratic policies, and the economy which was obviously going very wrong and going to hit a big mess soon. I said that, and I didn't like Nick because he didn't seem to have much to say on the matter, not that Huhne was much better on it.<br /><br />Nick has done ok, he could have done better. He is still too right-wing economically to have had proper answers to the economic crisis. His response to the political crisis has been rather feeble, witness failing to realise now was he time to push STV rather than the useless AV+ which does little to solve the problem (and that's a fairly minor example of not really getting it right).<br /><br />He's done well because, well the others are really, really crap. But, as I've said, if we'd played this better we'd be soaring in the polls right now, not fighting it out with UKIP.Matthew Huntbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18255872047710686115noreply@blogger.com