Good grief.
Still reeling from last weekend's Ken Clarke revelations of the Conservatives "do nothing" response were Ireland to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, you'll never guess what the Conservatives have gone and done now?
Yup, they're letting Ken Clarke out in public on no other a public platform than... tomorrow's BBC Question Time.
You just know he's going to be asked about Conservative policy on Europe, don't you?
As far as the Conservatives are concerned on the EU issue, Ken Clarke is a liability. But hey, as far as we - the electorate - are concerned, he may well be the only one honest enough to have told us what the Conservatives are really thinking. At least we know.
Look at the backlash on internet forums for the Conservatives over what Ken Clarke let slip on the EU last weekend and which the Conservatives have since failed to seek to correct or clarify. So, at the moment, the electorate must assume Clarke was being truthful.
Anyone get the feeling that the Conservatives really do not want to win the next General Election?
Almost any one of us could run the Tories better. Condemn civil liberty abuses by Labour, promise a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and withdraw from the EU if the damn thing is in force when they come to power, promise to curb Government spending, stem the flow of immigration and voila - it's in the bag. They're getting much right, but trying to ignore the tide of anti-EU sentiment... surely they must realise by now that it will not simply be ignored away?
Meanwhile, isn't there a Ken Clarke sized cupboard that the Conservatives could lock him in until the election is over? Or, in order to respect his civil liberties, couldn't they just keep him off the telly? Or, best still, why don't the Conservatives just come clean and tell us what they will do if the Irish ratify the Lisbon Treaty in their forced, democracy ignoring second referendum.
If we worked in ZaNuLiebour HQ, we'd be priming Charlie Falconer - their representative on tomorrow's QT panel - to pump Ken Clarke over Europe.
Mind you, Ken Clarke just has to point out who ZaNuLiebour's leader is and score an easy open goal...
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