Watson has no idea, or news for that matter.

Knowing my deep and abiding interest in the presidential campaign of Graham Watson a friend decided to send me a couple of links.

First this one to the Watson Presidential campaiagn website - the news section. And what is revealed?

News
It’s vital that politicians speak up for their principles and reach out to others in pursuit of common goals. That’s the way to beat cynicism about politics, and confront euroscepticism head-on.
In this section, you will find my press releases, information about my activities, and some press comment about the work I do. They reflect my determination that the
EU should do a good job for its citizens, and that those same citizens should hear about the work their MEPs do.

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Rather delightfully there are neither entries for 'Latest News' or 'Latest Events'.

But better still is the ideas page,

Evidently dear Graham has no ideas.

Though I hear he had a thouroughly good time at the Burns Night dinner the other week.

Oh and he is getting excited about launching a book. But of course the link to it goes to a 404 error page.

Note to Watson: Don't sent out adverts to your website, before it works.

Graham Watson = James Bond

I kid you not...

Hubris calling Watson... Hubris calling Watson

Oh what a bouffant buffoon Graham 'Toady' Watson is. The leader of the Liberal Democrat Group (ALDE). He has launched his election campaign as the next President of the European Parliament.

There are a few small problems with this.

Firstly he launched it on Euronews - hardly somewhere where he will be noticed.

Second, he is fibbing when he claims that this is the,

"first ever public campaign for the presidency".

Nope that would be the campaign of Jens-Peter Bonde last time round. The 'Fair Chair' campaign was specifically a public campaign.

Then there is the fact that he will not have the support of either the socialist group or the EPP. Leaving him writing begging letters to UKIP MEPs for support. Now given that he says on his campaign website,

"If elected, I will work with MEPs of all persuasions and with Council and Commission for a stronger European Union. The ideal of a united Europe is under attack and I intend to lead a counter-offensive. "

I suspect that the letters to the Ind/Dem Group are, at best, a waste of paper.

But most importantly he hasn't been elected yet. His seat hangs in the balance if the results of the opinion poll in the Sunday Telegraph are anything to go by. To win a seat in the South West, where he pretends to be based requires about 15%. The poll has the Lib/Dems at 14%.

So he spending a whole bunch of money on a website based in Texas (bought on December 2nd) to run for a campaign he has a very real chance of being unable to prosecute due to not being elected as an MEP, let alone President of Parliament. He is playing a very dangerous and hubristic game here.

Update

I pottered along to Watson's section of YouTube and noticed that the last 17 weekly podcasts have average viewing figures of 37 views.

Given that many will be from his own office... well it doesn't bode well does it?

The people really are inconvienient.

Or they at least would appear to me if the title of a speech to given tomorrow is anything to go by.

Graham Watson, leader of the Lib Dem Group (ALDE) and the so called Somerset based Lib Dem MEP is to be the headline speaker at the British Chamber of Commerce Brussels dinner to be held in Strasbourg. He seems to be taking lessons from Bertold Brecht,

The people have lost the confidence of the government; the government has decided to dissolve the people, and to appoint another one.

The title of Toady's speech?

"Four years after the Constitution, one year after the Lisbon treaty: Is the EU being held hostage by its citizens?"

Lib Dem describes defending National Interest as 'stupid'.

During the chatathon yesterday as the European Parliament fell over itself to say how wonderful the resurrected Constitution really was, one individual stood out in his frank awe inspiring obsequiousness,
Ladies and gentlemen may I introduce you (again) to the European Parliament's own snivelling rumpsucker, Graham 'Toady' Watson,

"Your famous poet Fernando Pessoa once wrote: ‘No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it’. Well, in this case, the culprit was national interest",

So the defense of the national interest is, in the mind of this bouffant cantaloupe, stupid. No that is what people elect politicians for you multilingual evacuee from a malpractice suit.