tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post115228377509175334..comments2023-08-11T09:56:34.039+01:00Comments on timrollpickering: Who cares where someone sits on the wrong train?Tim Roll-Pickeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12589024696145675963noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post-1152285238738998642006-07-07T16:13:00.000+01:002006-07-07T16:13:00.000+01:00I don't Cameron is the only one responsible for th...I don't Cameron is the only one responsible for this mess - the issue of our membership of the EPP has been raging for years and some on the withdrawlist side would (and indeed did) be making these calls as stridently without a leader's pledge to "implement" and with the internet providing platforms the calls would not just go away. The problem has always been the lack of an existing alternative grouping to join. But there are those who would rather sit as independents than in the EPP if those are the only options and Cameron was not explicit at the time what his stance would be in such circumstances. His pledge was ambiguous and made at a closed meeting during the leadership contest - the result is that everyone seems to have a different idea about what it means. That's not helpful when part of it hinges on events outside our control. It also doesn't help that no-one seems to have the actual text of the pledge. But I don't doubt that several of the most ardently anti-EPP MEPs wouldn't still be raising the issue, making it key question in the MEP leader election and so forth. So maybe a bigger dock is needed.Tim Roll-Pickeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12589024696145675963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post-1152284116920277352006-07-07T15:55:00.000+01:002006-07-07T15:55:00.000+01:00You only have your leader to blame for starting a ...You only have your leader to blame for starting a row on something that doesn't matter. Is it just me or is it the case then whenever Cameron actually talks about specific policies (rather than general ramblings about how we should all be hugging trees) he screws up?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com