Iain Dale has asked “Is Cable’s goose cooked” in what looks for all the world like a “blog post”, published on the very unusual (for him) medium of the Total Politics blog (as a “Guest blogger”), and then cross-posted on Iain Dale’s Diary. What a really weird contorted way of doing things!
The post is saying that Vince should go from the cabinet. – Fascinating coming from someone who only last week said “The time has come to stop blogging (and Party Politics)” And he’s on Radio 4’s Today saying much the same thing here. He appears to invest quite a lot of emotion or passion in the point he is making.
The post itself is a load of cobblers. But I am biased. I really don’t see what all the fuss is about. The decision on News International has gone from an anti-Murdoch minister to a pro-Murdoch minister. – A result for The Digger I’d say, but Vince isn’t going to go.
Time for some Christmas festivities. methinks. Trebles all round!
Liberal Burblings 
Oh dear. Vince was a complete prat in the words he used and has screwed up big time. If he was a Tory we would undoubtedly have been sacked. The Tory back benches have said as much today. A Secretary of State saying to sanyone, let alone hacks, that ‘He’s at war with Murdoch’is way out of line. As Robert Peston said last night after he was handed the rest of the script, “Its a bit like a High Court Judge saying ‘He’s at war with the defendant.’ ”
In 1976, I remember Sir Robin Day interviewing Harold Macmillan who was then calling for a Government of national Coalition in his words, “..of men of goodwill.” The Lib Dems can’t go feral now just as they (finally) have influence.