I fear this Telegraph link won't work so if you go to the site and read the story 'Tories in retreat over sacked aide' you will know what I am talking about.
However, you don't need to do that 'cause I will paraphrase. The Quiet Man sacked his Head of Campaigns Stephen Gilbert last week, but told him he should stay on until the day after the May local elections. Clearly that gave Gilbert a great incentive to do his job well, and it appears the grass-roots of the party have complained about it. Now TQM's aides say that Gilbert might stay on after the elections.
The Telegraph itself put it perfectly a few day's ago:
"Imagine how the main evening news might look in a month's time. There would be footage of our men in action; jubilant scenes, perhaps, as John Simpson liberates Kirkuk; then, with crashing bathos, we would cut to Andrew Marr outside Conservative Central Office, telling us that Boodle is now supporting Coodle, because he has heard from Doodle that Foodle plans to give his job to Hoodle. Voters would conclude - and who could blame them? - that the Tories had given up any interest in running the country."
posted by Matthew @ 2/26/2003 12:32:00 PM
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