Barrack, David Milliband and Mick Bates
Now at first sight there does not seem to be much to connect Barrack Obama, David Milliband and Mick Bates but it does seem that all three have made or are are about to make significant announcements.
The most far-reaching is undoubtedly that of the junior senator for Illinois who will announce today that he is seeking the Democratic nomination for the US Presidency.”There is a time in the affairs of man when taken at the flood …” and it is clear to me that Barrack Obama is a near certain President and probably in 2008.What is also clear and heartening is that the support for him is not on racial grounds, indeed Hilary Clinton is well ahead in the polls among black voters.Race has become irrelevant in US politics,it seems, and that’s good.
Meanwhile it seems that modernisers in the Labour party want David Milliband to run against Gordon Brown when Tony retires to Chester le Street Les Deux Eglises.It seems that David M has not ruled this out completely! The Question Time gaffe (see yesterday’s blog) appears in a quite different light now.
Now to reassure readers and Lembit (and indeed Eleanor Burnham ) Mick is not so far as I know planning a statement from the steps of Owain Glyndwr’s Parliament in Machynlleth. No Mick’s significant statement was made to the NFU, so Brynle tells me, that he,Mickand the Lib Dems cannot support the restoration of Tir Mynydd in the agriculture budget. Now I hope Brynle has got this wrong, but he was there and seems certain about it.If true this is certainly a volte face from the posiition that the Lib Dems adopted during those infamous budget talks.
We should be told.
