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Don't know much about this person but he or she clearly thought my post about Europe interesting enough to link to it!  Looks Tory, and so categorized, unless told otherwise!

I tried to fix his blog and failed.  He linked to me, so I'm linking back!

Yesterday I linked to ToryHome's bigging up of George Osborne. Today they've done a review of the whole team that they would want to end up on the government front benches given the chance.

We should be doing this sort of thing. For a group of sixty odd MPs we often say we have the best strength in depth. We must not go letting people forget how good Vince is just because he's no longer acting leader for example. And we need to tease out the information about our other Shadow Cabinet members. I hope this gets done as part of the new leader's first few weeks. Announcing a shadow cabinet and ministerial team is not enough. We need to big them up regularly.

 Quite an amusing article at ConservativeHome bigging up Gideon under the headline "Chancellor-in-waiting". This in particular made me chuckle:

 

It is clear that Mr Osborne will not be appointed as the powerful Chairman that ConservativeHome had hoped he would become. He is going to remain Shadow Chancellor. Fair enough. But it is now important that many more voters want to trust him with the nation's finances. He needs to look in charge of his brief. Solid. Reassuring.

 

He's got to get over this image of him (and much of the rest of the Tory front bench/party) for me:

"By day, mild mannered Chartered Tax Advisor. By night, ruthless tax and welfare simplification campaigner. Rabid libertarian. Not ashamed to be called an Islamophobe."

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