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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
Mark was head of media for the Liberal Democrats from December 2004 to May 2007. Previously, he was campaigns director of human rights group Liberty from June 2001 until April 2004. In 2004, he was co-founder, and first national coordinator of NO2ID, Britain’s leading pressure group opposing the introduction of national identity cards. He has been chairman of NO2ID since 2006. Writes for the Guardian as well.
But is he a Hoon?
Who?
and why?
Didnt he play Joe Mangle in Neighbours?
No — he was Benny in Crossroads.
that was mark little
to 16
with a name like littlewood am sure he will go far
Wonders if Guido went to work an hour early (still not changed the clock on his server)
Guido needs to concentrate his attention on the hoons & troughers; not be distracted with unimportant details such as re-setting his clocks.
The clocks went back in this country on Sunday, Guido!
Bob
Perhaps he’s living in the Azores these days?
“The IEA is the UK’s original free-market think-tank, founded in 1955. The IEA’s goal is to explain free-market ideas to the public, including politicians, students, journalists, businessmen, academics and anyone interested in public policy.”
I guess the surprise is that such a renowned free-market think-tank would take on such a senior Lib dem, who was key figure their party when they pursued anything but a free-market agenda under Charles Kennedy’s leadership
But he’s also head of Liberal Vision which is on the extreme free-market, small government wing of the Liberal Democrats. He looks pretty solid on most things the IEA focus on.
Littlewood most definately a left of centre guy with some funny socialist/liberal views and says it all he wrote for the Guardian. A real catch I don’t think.
You are so very wrong.
Evidence? I thought he was a buddy of Charlie Kennedy’s?
Please put me right. Maybe I have the wrong Littlewood and will gladly apologise.
No I have the right Littlewood and stand by everything I have said before. This guy is a liberal as you can get – sorry Guido misguided or misguidod he is not a good choice INHO.
Well, let’s look at some of the recent times he has been in the news and judge from that…
Arguing with the Greens over climate change and whether a deal in Copenhagen is a good thing
Argued at Liberal Democrat Conference that the Lib Dems needed to give up on the north and run a small-government anti-tax agenda to hold on to their South-West seats
Was on 5Live arguing that capitalism is the best system invented and the world needs more of it
Also has always advocated the Lib Dems call for less government spending and lower taxes.
Is currently comms director of a think tank that advocates repealing the smoking ban, vouchers for education and a radical overhaul of the NHS.
Yep, sounds like a left-wing plant to me…
He’s pro-EU.
Anonymous, I know he is Pro EU and that is one of the reasons why I do not like him. There are several other reasons and I could cherry pick like you but can’t be arsed. Give it time people will come round once a few reports come out with his name on them.
No you are very wrong on this-I would stop digging if I was you before you make an even bigger fool of yourself
I like digging your start reading.
He formerly worked for ‘Liberty’. That implies he is not just very liberal, but left-wing as well. What on earth is he doing in the IEA lobbying for corporate interests?
Mark Littlewood will be a massive boost to this country’s free market thinking. He belongs to the “classical Liberal” wing and not the the diluted socialist faction of the Liberal Democrats. As his profile in the Daily Telegraph’s Top 50 most influential Liberals stated.
“He is firmly on the libertarian wing of the LibDems and is viewed as a right wing extremist by many in the party’s hierarchy. ”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/liberaldemocrats/6206525/Top-50-most-influential-Liberal-Democrats-50-26.html
Sorry, but he’s only the 47th most influential lib dem, one behind the Harry Potter boy, this isn’t earth shattering news. No one outside the Westminster Village gives a damn about this sort of stuff.
@Down with Brown
Where do you think politicians get their ideas from saving government spending, sale of council houses, the failure of smoking and alcohol bans, to health and education vouchers?
Think tanks.
I assume the definition of “Westminster Village” is those people who give a damn about this sort of stuff.
I am sure nobody outside the “Fascist village” likes Nick Griffin. No one outside the “East Grimsby Fish Processing Village” cares about fish processing in East Grimsby. etc. etc. etc.
The question you might want to ask, given the historic impact of think-tanks in times of political change is whether you SHOULD give a damn about this sort of stuff. This man might (just might) have a big impact on how the policy mood evolves through the forthcoming austerity years.
What I don’t get is, if this is really of no interest why you post about it – and why you would think that your posting about something of no interest was of any interest to anyone.
Tough on crime , tough on the causes of crime
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222885/Terror-plot-members-threatened-behead-British-Muslim-soldier-released-early-jail.html
Just read this and cannot believe it. They were supposed to serve a min 14 years and do a little over 2 WTF is going on. Straw is the one who should do time what a waste of space he and this awful sad excuse for a Government are. Piano wire to good for the lot of them. Questions need to be raised about this particularly as we hear from Nulabour all thetime that our soldiers are fighting in Afghan to protect us here yet Nulabour then go and release these terrorists – something is very very wrong here.
Dominic Littlewood would do a better job. Do you think he could spare some time – as a used car salesman he has all the attributes needed.
Spring forward, fall back.
A clock that is slow is never right, a clock that is fast is never rights but a clock that has stopped is precisely right two times per day.
What, you mean like Vince Cable?
What the swinging fuck has that got to do with Football pools.
Talking about Football pools, say it quickly:
East Fife Four, Forfar Five……Away win.
What an astounding bit of breaking news “Mark Littlewood Takes Over Institute oF Economic Affairs”. Think I’ll go back to taking car registration numbers.
Where have all the Welders gone?
Quickest distraction after the last post.
Why don’t we keep putting the clocks back, we can live forever.
Funny – brightened up my Monday morning.
Can we expect a lot of quick posts today?
I,m still waiting for Cameron.
This Littlewood fella, where’s his place in the treasonous New Labour immigration invasion plot ?
Who, why?
MARK LITTLEWOOD TAKES OVER INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
SMALL EARTHQUAKE IN CHILE: NO REPORTS OF ANY CASUALTIES
On a pedantic note, shouldn’t that headline read “Mark Littlewood takes over AT Institute of Economic Affairs’? He hasn’t purchased it, has he?