The Quiet Man, IDS, was on Newsnight yesterday. On the whole he was pretty poor, although not uniformly. When talking about military and defence matters, he didn't really seem to understand them, but he did seem to believe what he was saying. On domestic issues however he just seemed to occasionally remember that voters like to hear about certain issues, and quickly mentioned them. An example would be (not a direct quote), 'Kirsty, the people want to hear about our policies for health, education, crime, er....fighting crime, law and order, health'. His worst bit came when he compared himself to Winston Churchill, in an attempt to explain away his treasonable behaviour during the last (most recent? no, last is probably more accurate) Conservative government.
Sadly as I said in the post below, he hasn't got long to go. I expect another lurch to the right, poor results in the May local elections, and then a leadership election in the summer.
