On the PM programme on BBC Radio 4 earlier today Sir Menzies Campbell (Ming) talked about the failed coup mounted by Lord Oakshotte in the Liberal Democrat party and mused that he may have been a target of Lord Oakshotte's duplicity in the past.
I think he is right.
Who can forget the sniping over his age, the jeering over his sock suspenders, and the dramatic moment in October 2007 when it all got too much for him and he literally ran away from the party leadership (much as Stephen Fry ran away from the Albery Theatre in 1995 pleading stage fright) decamping back to Scotland leaving Vince Cable, with Simon Hughes beside him, standing on the steps of Cowley Street headquarters saying "He's not here, he's not here" as if it were all a surprise and they had nothing to do with it - a moment later dramatised and satirised by Rory Bremner.
Was Lord Oakshotte behind that particular night of the long knife?
All that has got to come out.
And what of Lord Rennard? He's been very quiet recently. Has he got nothing to say on the matter?
Oh what a maelstrom of hatefulness and deceit the Liberal Democrat party is.
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
The Liberal Democrat Party is neither liberal, nor democratic, nor a party in any unified meaning of the term.
I think he is right.
Who can forget the sniping over his age, the jeering over his sock suspenders, and the dramatic moment in October 2007 when it all got too much for him and he literally ran away from the party leadership (much as Stephen Fry ran away from the Albery Theatre in 1995 pleading stage fright) decamping back to Scotland leaving Vince Cable, with Simon Hughes beside him, standing on the steps of Cowley Street headquarters saying "He's not here, he's not here" as if it were all a surprise and they had nothing to do with it - a moment later dramatised and satirised by Rory Bremner.
Was Lord Oakshotte behind that particular night of the long knife?
All that has got to come out.
And what of Lord Rennard? He's been very quiet recently. Has he got nothing to say on the matter?
Oh what a maelstrom of hatefulness and deceit the Liberal Democrat party is.
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
The Liberal Democrat Party is neither liberal, nor democratic, nor a party in any unified meaning of the term.
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