Saturday, January 10, 2009

Tories: Big beast trumps big beast?

With Alan Duncan being very silly, skiing instead of turning up to a shad cab away-day tour of recession-hit businesses, Kenneth Clarke is being touted as likely to replace him as Tory business spokesman. That is, Kenneth Clarke, one of those "big beasts" they keep on talking about that Cameron may (probably not) bring back to the shadow cabinet to make him and his colleagues, like Dominic Grieve and Georgie "Nice hair dye" Osbourne, look like the squeaky pigmies they are.

But another Tory big beast, this time of the fairly crucial financial donor-type variety, Stuart Wheeler (a record £5 million cheque writer for the Tories in the past) says he doesn't want Clarke on the front bench because of his Eorophile views. Mr Wheeler is a jumping Europhobe.

So that's it then. No Clarkie.

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