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Liam Fox, your pants are on fire

Shadow defence secretary caught dissembling about Andy Coulson on Question Time.

I think you'll find that Andy Coulson was neither present at nor involved in that particular tribunal.

* The disingenuous response offered by stuttering, red-faced Liam Fox MP, Conservative shadow defence secretary, after being asked about the Tory spin doctor Andy Coulson's involvement in bullying on BBC1's Question Time, 25 February 2010

The original source of the hostility towards the claimant [Matt Driscoll] was Mr Coulson, the editor; although other senior managers either took their lead from Mr Coulson and continued with his motivation after Mr Coulson's departure; or shared his views themselves.

* The verdict of an east London employment tribunal in the case of bullying brought against the News of the World, 23 November 2009

3 comments

Dragnet's picture

Liam Fox is from a constituency where off the record Tories still believe in apartheid and having the unemployed sweep the streets. His formative years as a politician were spent with a crowd who sold their sole to big construction companies and took backhanders. When the creep had a letter published in The Times he was showing everyone a cutting like a cross between a sneering young Tory and Hyacinth Bucket. He's never known hardship and comes from one of the softest regions in the country which makes his role in defence look like he's just living out fantasies of being a hard man. If there was ever a man who lusted after power and had a God complex it's Liam Fox.

swatantra's picture

I've got this awful picture of Liam Fox in lederhosen hotpants. Fox is probably the most miserable so and so in Camerons Second Eleven. He's still sulking over the leadership bid which he hadn't a hope of winning anyway. But its good to see him redfaced and hummiliated.

Henry_James's picture

'sneering young Tory', this is exactly what crosses my mind every time i have to hear a member of the conservative shadow cabinet. Ken Clark however, now isn't he the kind of stand up chap all these inexperienced nobodys should aspire to; on second thoughts, his performace on Any Questions 05/03/10 illuminated for me parts of his character which i had until this point been unawares. He showed just what an absolute bullsh*t shiller he realy is! FEAR FEAR FEAR! I am going out to canvas for the labour party tomorrow on the strength of his appaulingly distastefull chirade him and his party are trying to portray. I am very angry!

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