Paddy Ashdown dashed in to St Albans yesterday on the latest stage of his tour to promote his autobiography “A Fortunate Life”.
Given his current superstar status and his universally admired success as High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina, it is worth recalling how much he was sneered at and patronised by his opponents and the media when he first became LibDem leader.
Nick Clegg is being similarly under-estimated today. They were wrong about Paddy then and they are wrong about Nick today.
Of course Paddy and I were fellow candidates in Conservative seats back in 1983 and have remained friends ever since. He has come to St Albans on several occasions and is very impressed by the LibDem progress over recent years. He sees the similarities with his first stunning victory in Yeovil and has promised to come to help whenever the general election comes.
you forget to mention your bezzy Ming…
You were very good at singing his praises even when the rest of the Party were screwing the knife in his back!
Always delighted to be criticised for being loyal to my friends. “Bezzy” is not a word I have come across in my all-too-sheltered life. Looking up on the internet, the Urban Dictionary tells me:
Bezzy is a versatile term to describe a ho as being particularly bad looking. Most of the time not used to describe women and often may be used when talking about people with no social life. Traits of bezzys include but are not limited to:
1: Lack of decent brand-name attire.
2: Inability to comb/brush hair.
3: Jeans that are too short in addition to the wearing of tube socks.
4: Has no interest in music.
5: Think they are cool, even though they have no friends.
” Man, look at that bezzy! Why can’t he just buy himself a pair of DC’s and iron his shirt!”
I must tell Ming at once.