Vince Cable's little exaggeration


By Stephen Pollard
March 22, 2010
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This story about Vincent Cable, the most over-rated politician in the land, is very funny.

Yesterday, the Observer splashed on 

Treasury calls in Cable for talks on a hung parliament

The story informs us that Vince Cable is “ready to serve” as Chancellor. The Treasury and its permanent secretary Sir Nicholas Macpherson
are  “taking  seriously” what the Lib Dems have to say and are keen to find out what Mr Cable would do in office.
“He didn’t say to me ‘yes minister but you can’t do that’,” Mr Cable told the Observer.

Ben Brogan reveale what really happened:

It turns out the meeting was his idea, he asked for it, and it was
granted out of courtesy. And it lasted 20 minutes. So, far from being
summoned in for detailed talks, he invited himself in and was given a
polite hearing. The Treasury, fair to say, is shaking its head in
rueful admiration at Mr Cable’s chutzpah: “Extraordinary what he made
of a 20 minute meeting set up at his request.” 

You have to love the LibDems. (Actually, you don't. The word 'desperate' doesn't come close to describing the nasty, hypocritical shower.)

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Jonathan Hoffman

22 March, 2010 - 11:35

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This is on a par with the LDs putting out seoparate leaflets to Jews and to Muslims:

http://www.oyvagoy.com/2010/03/02/lib-dems-vilify-israel-to-win-muslim-v...

moshetzarfati2

22 March, 2010 - 17:00

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Yes, Jonathan, that's a bit like Dave Cameroon telling the JC he will crack down on Muslim extremists when Tim Archer, the Tory parliamentary candidate for Poplar and Limehouse, maintains close and interesting relationships with the Islamic Forum of Europe’s headquarters, the East London Mosque.
He is to appear at an IFE event on 30 March at the East London Mosque whose purpose is to attack “media smearing of Muslim organisations”. WHo else will be there? Bob Lambert, the former head of the Met’s Muslim Contact Unit; Oliver McTernan, director of “Forward Thinking;” and George Galloway. Nobody, interestingly, from the Labour Party. But there will be Muhammad Habibur Rahman, recent former president of the IFE.
Mr Archer’s Labour opponent in Poplar is Jim Fitzpatrick, a staunch rival of Islamism, who won't be at the IFE event.

Politicians, eh Jonathan?

DLeigh-Ellis

22 March, 2010 - 18:01

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Stephen, I struggle to think of a single politician I wouldn't describe as desperate right now. At least the Lib Dems don't carry the years of sleaze and scandal that are seemingly endemic to the other two main parties.

(and I'm not a Lib Dem voter or supporter btw)

ASSI

13 December, 2010 - 16:44

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There are some people who like to get a lot of attention and there is no limit to what extent they will go, to get it, like Vince Cable of the LibDems I wonder if he realizes the picture the public will have when the real truth comes out that it was he who arranged the meeting with the Treasury and not the other way round and he was just given a patient hearing from them – another of his tactics to get a little attention, I suppose!!

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Makony

17 January, 2011 - 22:29

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I am not also a Lib Dem voter or supporter btw.
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