RogerOThornhill wrote:Rebecca wrote:Secondly Citizen,I really feel uncomfortable with anyone pushing at posters here to reveal their identity.
Well so do I for that matter - I have fairly trenchant views about education policy as everyone knows but I am a serving chair of governors and keep my political opinions very much out of any meetings.
But I fail to see how answering a simple question about how SH knew or saw Miliband 25 years ago while Ed was at university could possibly reveal his identity given the hundreds of people who similarly went to Oxford at the same time. Bear in mind that it was SH himself who volunteered this information yesterday in a "I know more than you people" way.
In that, I concur. If SH went to Oxford (taught, lived or studied there, university or Brookes) there's nothing that can link his stating so to his real identity, I would suggest.
Now. Having said that, I'm really not a great fan of anyone suggesting that they have insider knowledge and refusing to source their alleged knowledge, and even less a fan of name dropping (in effect). I could do it - as I discussed with Tom Watson MP when we were out door knocking in Ramsbottom the other week - but I generally don't unless they are my source for a particular piece of information or germane to the point I'm seeking to make. I've actually met a fair few MPs by now (because of the circles I move in), and I imagine others have too, but it's pointless to try and big oneself up by mentioning it for no reason, because it makes you look like a wannabee and why anyone would seek to do that with FTNers is beyond me, as it would undoubtedly backfire. Hubris isn't a good look and namedropping is hubris writ large, as I told Franklyn Roosevelt before I was born.
On a rather happier note, I was out with the local candidate for our ward delivering leaflets on Saturday, and I was a little relieved to find out that he's sick to the back teeth of the 'organisation' he's been getting within the CLP. My perception has been for a while that this is possibly the worst organised campaign I've ever taken part in, both for the locals and the general election. I'm not quite sure who's sorted out the leaflet deliveries and the door knocking schedules, but it's either Curly, Larry or Mo, whilst the separation of the local and general campaigns is a palpably stupid decision which will not end well, IMHO. Any road up, I've told said local candidate to fuck 'em off, and we'll do it our way, which attentive readers will know I did in 2012 when I got elected. I wrote all my own leaflets and delivered a mass of them to boot, unencumbered by the demands of the CLP. I'll let you know how we get on.