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15/02/2004, 3:29 PM Delboy Joined on 15/08/2003 Posts 5,089 Alistair Campbell's lecture tour I note with interest that Alistair "NOT ME" Campbell is on a lecture tour. The seats are a sell out, there are 694 seats left in the 700 seat Corn exchange in King'sLynn so be quick or you may not be able to get one. At least there have been 56 tickets sold for the sleaze in the 2,000 seat Birmingham Symphony Hall for the 1st April, that's a good date for him and perhaps the April Fool he worked for could be alongside him. It's also interesting that Glasgow and Richmond, Surrey have cancelled his diatribe. At least this egotistical twister of the truth might now realise what the general public think of him. The EXPERT knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing .    Report

15/02/2004, 11:14 PM is-it-me Joined on 18/08/2003 Posts 187 Re: Alistair Campbell's lecture tour That he should even contemplate such a tour shows how full of his own importance he is. I hope the people who do go to see him will give him a hard time.    Report

16/02/2004, 1:10 AM Keith Gerrard Joined on 14/08/2003 Posts 1,589 Re: Alistair Campbell's lecture tour I dont see how you can give a stone a hard time.    Report

16/02/2004, 6:10 AM Cantley Joined on 15/08/2003 Cantley Posts 632 Re: Alistair Campbell's lecture tour This tour is really just his lap of honour, and I think he's entitled to that. For years he had to endure an unprecedented stream of bile and hatred from the media, culminating in the entire bloated edifice of the BBC pig-headedly and arrogantly uniting behind Gilligan's outrageous libel. When Hutton gave the Beeb such a kicking, who could blame Campbell for feeling a touch of schadenfreude? He wouldn't be human otherwise. Where is Ali's Snackbar anyway?    Report

16/02/2004, 8:27 AM Derek Joined on 15/08/2003 Posts 1,876 Re: Alistair Campbell's lecture tour >> He wouldn't be human otherwise. >> A joke, right? Derek snafu - but by design    Report

16/02/2004, 9:21 AM Delboy Joined on 15/08/2003 Posts 5,089 Re: Alistair Campbell's lecture tour Did you make an error in your posting >>This tour is really just his lap of honour<< Surely it shold have read >>This tour is really just his lap of pomposity<< The Hutton inquiry had it's limits so tightly set that any government minister or advisor would come out smelling of roses whilst the BBC had no chance. If you read the introduction giving the terms of reference to the report and analyse them the only losers in the report could possibly have been the BBC and Gilligan, whilst the likes of Blair, Campbell and the other cohorts were going to be whitewashed. Who set the terms of reference? Could it have been those who would have taken considerable critisism if the terms had not been so restrictive? I await Greg Dyke's book with interest The EXPERT knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing .    Report

16/02/2004, 10:18 AM Cantley Joined on 15/08/2003 Cantley Posts 632 Re: Alistair Campbell's lecture tour Delboy wrote - "The Hutton inquiry had it's limits so tightly set that any government minister or advisor would come out smelling of roses whilst the BBC had no chance." I don't recall anybody - anybody at all - complaining about the TOR before the report came out. Are you saying everybody was duped? The media, the Tories, the Lib Dems, and all the regulars on this board? If so, then Tony Blair must be a genius and we should be grateful he is using his dark and mysterious powers of manipulation for this country. Where is Ali's Snackbar anyway?    Report

16/02/2004, 10:41 AM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 3,675 Re: Alistair Campbell's lecture tour Perhaps the fact that so few seats are sold reflects the point that many people DO think they have be duped?...Maybe once to often!    Report

16/02/2004, 2:03 PM Delboy Joined on 15/08/2003 Posts 5,089 Re: Alistair Campbell's lecture tour Surely it was Campbell's mates, Blair & Co., who set the terms of reference and as far as I can recall there was no debate as to whether they were wide reaching enough or not, as is the latest cover up inquiry. Why are the Lib. Dems staying out of the latest one, it's just another stitch up. Why has there been no similar massive inquiry as to why Hoon's goons didn't provide the forces with enough equipment when going into Iraq for Mr Bush. To me Campbell, although he may be a clever man, brings to mind something like the device which drops to the sea bed to prevent ships from drifting. The EXPERT knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing .    Report

16/02/2004, 4:28 PM Peter.R Farman Joined on 10/12/2003 Posts 140 Re: Alistair Campbell's lecture tour "Why has there been no similar massive inquiry as to why Hoon's goons didn't provide the forces with enough equipment when going into Iraq for Mr Bush" Unquote. We don’t need an enquiry regarding the equipment Delboy. If you recall we were all treated to yet another example of the fine art of the wordsmith which explained how that situation wasn’t anybody’s fault either. Hoon stated at the time that the troops had all the equipment they needed "in theatre". In other words Iraq, which I guess by his standards is close enough as long as he wasn't in the country at the time. BTW. I liked your use of rhyming slang at the end of your post. Very apt.    Report

16/02/2004, 4:34 PM jerry Joined on 14/08/2003 Posts 906 Re: Alistair Campbell's lecture tour >> To me Campbell, although he may be a clever man, brings to mind something like the device which drops to the sea bed to prevent ships from drifting. << Most people would get the obvious implication of this observation, but when you omit rhyming slang as a term of reference, and bring in a Huttonesque interpretation, you end up with 'Within my terms of reference, I have no knowledge of words that rhyme with w****r and thus cannot impute anything concerning the character of Mr Cambell'. jerry jerry road safety expert    Report

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