A kind reader gave this LINK of Sam Gyimah being demolished by a listener on LBC.
It's excruciating listening and reminds us that the Lib Dems are so clueless that they send their senior candidate for a mashing at the hands of a self-employed small businessman.
No wonder the only business Sam started failed.There is a two fold mystery...
- How did he ever get a job with rapacious Goldman Sachs
- How did he get a ministerial job with the Tories
Sam was far too grand to take up an invitation to chew the cud with the Dame.....
He told me the Dame was a foolish old woman with only several thousand weekly visitors
ReplyDeleteUnlike candidates Emma Dent-Coad and Vivien Lichtenstein, Sam has, to date, been far too busy to air his views on the future of Earl's Court...despite numerous requests. Ditto Felicity Buchan and that Brexity blonde better known for skirt-shedding at the Eurovision Song Contest circa The Ark.
ReplyDeleteHis excellency Gyimah was far too busy to grace us with his presence, as a Kensington constituency PPC, at the 21 November 2019 hustings held in Earl's Court. Instead, he was represented by someone called Apologies.
ReplyDeleteAnd here is a link to his car crash interview with Eddie Mair on LBC:
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Dame, this site used to be worth reading because it cast light on goings on in RBKC Council. One of the great things about Hornets Nest was that it would praise parties where it was due and criticise where it was justified. It wasn't a partisan blog. But lately this blog is just an anti-Lib Dem site. Close readers of the site will know that Dame has pro-Brexit sympathies (unlike the vast majority of residents in the Royal Borough). Me thinks that is why she is so obsessed with the Lib-Dems lately, and what's more I think the Dame must be very worried that Sam Gyimah is going to win Kensington. If Gyimah does win perhaps it will open the door to finally unlocking the Tory dominance on the Council. More competitive Council elections and a real chance for residents to change the Council would be extremely welcome.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great to see the Dame get back to focusing on the Council and spend less time hammering Lib-Dem parliamentary candidates. Whatever one's feelings on Brexit, I think it's worth considering the longer-term possibility for change that a Liberal-Democrat MP for the Royal Borough could bring.
The Dame is stung by such a wicked accusation.
ReplyDeleteOn many countless occasions the old Dame has ventured out of her comfort zone to attack those who would presume to represent us. Her old friend, Malc Rifkind got so fed with the Dame he even invited her down to the Commons for a cuppa: the Dame declined.
Now, on the Lib Dems... it was in fact the Lib Dems who first mooted the idea of penal taxes on homes over £2m. Such a tax would spell financial ruin for many residents of both constituencies on fixed incomes.
But the real issue is this. The local Lib Dem associations are fed to the back teeth with carpetbaggers being foisted upon them. First was Rabina Khan who refused to answer any of the Dame's questions on her relationship with convicted electoral fraudster, Luftur Rahman of Tower Hamlets. In C&F in was dropped Nicola Horlick who again refused to deal with questions about her business life.
Then you drop in Sam-a party member for just a few months.
Did you feel Linda Wade was not up to the job?
Many think highly of her including the Dame.
Turning to Brexit.....it may have escaped your attention that it was the Dame who forced the Conservative Association to drop Matthew Palmer for canvassing for the Brexit Party.
Anyway, it's all in the numbers...an average of 2000 daily views.
Dame it's disappointing that you are so dismissive of my (constructive) criticism! I am a longtime reader of your site. By the way I am NOT a Liberal-Democrat (though I certainly think highly of Linda Wade), so the selection of the Liberal-Democrat candidate had nothing to do with me.
DeleteYour takedown of Cllr Palmer is to be applauded and I for one was delighted to see him finally get his just desserts. I think in that instance this website really did make the difference--it is widely read by all councillors and everyone knew that Palmer had campaigned for a political party that was standing candidates against his own party, which means automatic expulsion.
But Dame, you ARE a Brexiteer. You don't deny it because it's true. Fess up, Dame, on this key issue you are out of step with the vast majority of residents in Kensington and Chelsea.
The Dame didn't mean to be dismissive and apologies if you thought so.
DeleteShe thinks Linda Wade a good egg and EDC did good stuff as a councillor.
As far as Brexit is concerned the Dame shadows the position of Mr. Corbyn.
Incidentally, the Dame became interested in Felicity Buchan.
Family upbringing and your origins count for a lot. In Buchan's case she's from Fraserburgh on the NE coast of Scotland and went to local comprehensive school. Doubless, her fellow pupils had family employed in the virtually now defunct fishing industry. Maybe those formative years hardened her views on the EU?
As for the Dame her own views on Brexit are her own and she will never confess!
Ahh, thanks for the apology Dame. Please keep up the good work.
DeletePhew, for an old thing the Dame is a feisty number!
ReplyDeleteIt’s a wonderful post, thanks for sharing it.
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