tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596354719352503563.post3411699933384167770..comments2022-10-27T16:36:57.055-04:00Comments on A Yellow Guard: Oi, Owen! Shut it!Chris Connollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724092391390838428noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596354719352503563.post-53177207203213860982007-02-07T12:32:00.000-05:002007-02-07T12:32:00.000-05:00The Guardian item actually starts of saying that O...The Guardian item actually starts of saying that Owen is 'a senior figure from the Liberal Movement' rather than 'a Party Stalwarth'.<br /><br />This form of words suggests to me a more deliberate attempt by 'staff and agencies' to confuse the issue, rather than a simple mistake by a naive hack. They know very well that Owen has no connections to the LibDems but have to insinuate that he has in order to manufacture a story. <br /><br />By the way in the LibDem world,'the Liberal Movement' historically was an unstructured network of Liberal supporters attempting to assert Liberal values during the merger debates with the SDP. The last thing with which Dr Death would be associated.Edishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852931736127760026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596354719352503563.post-13896549083448165632007-02-06T16:47:00.000-05:002007-02-06T16:47:00.000-05:00The Guardian has very poor editorial controls. The...The Guardian has very poor editorial controls. The article also states that Chris Huhne is 42. Huhne may be younger than Sir Ming, but he is 52.<br /><br />I fear many articles are written by those just out of university. You must remember that these people may have been born in 1985. They have no recollection of political events before about 1997 at best.<br /><br />The Independent is equally capable of similar howlers. I recall some article a year or so ago that seemed to be oblivious that rather a lot of MPs defected from Labour to the SDP.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com