The Talking Clock: Political kudos showering 2009

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Monday, 28 December 2009

Political kudos showering 2009

Many other blogs have political awards and round-ups for the year, so in order to be original... find another blog, as we've decided to join in. Our review of the year is to follow - first up, our kudos showering... where we actually demonstrate an ability to be nice to those who merit it.

Conservative politician of the year: Dan Hannan (a proud patriot, witty, with some good ideas on how to make Britain better)

Labour politician of the year: Kate Hoey (not many MPs have principles - she has stuck to her manifesto pledges to her constituents throughout her time in this Parliament)

LibDem politician of the year: Norman Baker

Non-LibLabCon politician of the year: Nigel Farage (proud patriot who led UKIP to second place in the European elections)

Political personality of the year: Boris Johnson (the London Mayor's year ended with his tumble in our esteem through espousing that 'carbon dioxide is evil' nonsense that the political establishment is trying to use to terrify people who do not read - but he had many, many good moments before that to carry him through)

Overall politician of the year: Dan Hannan (how we wish he'd defect to UKIP)

Political campaigner of the year: Lord Christopher Monckton (never has one man spoken so much sense on behalf of so many)

Political magazine of the year: The Spectator

Best political TV show: This Week

Best political commentator (press): James Delingpole (Telegraph)

Best political commentator (TV): Andrew Neil

International politician of the year: Vaclav Klaus (okay, he relented and signed the abomination that is the Lisbon Treaty in the end but he held out for as long as he reasonably could. Also is on the side of liberty in the great carbon con)

Most disliked politician of the year: Where to start? It has to be someone on the Labour frontbench. Thankfully, Jacqui Smith has removed herself out of the face of the British public so we'll put our intense dislike of her on hold. Harriet Harperson is irritating. But the most disliked of all remaining has to be one or other of the brothers grim. So we'll give the title to the most powerful of the two. Our most disliked politician of 2009 is, therefore, David Miliband.

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Forever... Diana

...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality."
- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

The People's Sovereignty

"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992

Monday, 28 December 2009

Political kudos showering 2009

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