Mr Dennis Canavan This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. www.scotsindependent.com

   www.scotsindependent.com/2000/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/24/2000   Last Visited: 5/15/2008

   Then, lo and behold, Dennis Canavan started a reconciliation with Labour, and we were down to two.One week later, and Dennis Canavan changed his mind, or had it changed, and the headline is accurate again!
   
   What is going on between Dennis Canavan and the Labour Party?Did he find out what they really thought of him?The BBC interviewer on Newsnight was blunt when he said words to the effect "If you did not know you were only offered re admission to avoid a damaging by election, you were the only person in Scotland who didn't know that".As it is, Mr Canavan has now totally destroyed any credibility he had, and it may be that his ego is such that he feels his conduct should be acceptable, because he is "Dennis".
   
   He burned his boats when he left Labour to stand as an independent; he burned them again, more spectacularly, when he applied to rejoin, and yet again, perhaps when he found that they did not really want him at all.
   ...
   However, now that Mr Canavan is not accepting the twenty pieces of silver another by election will be along shortly.
   
   It's tough being an unprincipled politician in New Labour (Too much competition).

2. 2. The Scots Independent Newspaper Online - The Flag in the Wind

   www.theflaginthewind.net/2000/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/24/2000   Last Visited: 11/26/2007

   Then, lo and behold, Dennis Canavan started a reconciliation with Labour, and we were down to two. One week later, and Dennis Canavan changed his mind, or had it changed, and the headline is accurate again!
   
   What is going on between Dennis Canavan and the Labour Party? Did he find out what they really thought of him? The BBC interviewer on Newsnight was blunt when he said words to the effect "If you did not know you were only offered re admission to avoid a damaging by election, you were the only person in Scotland who didn't know that". As it is, Mr Canavan has now totally destroyed any credibility he had, and it may be that his ego is such that he feels his conduct should be acceptable, because he is "Dennis".
   
   He burned his boats when he left Labour to stand as an independent; he burned them again, more spectacularly, when he applied to rejoin, and yet again, perhaps when he found that they did not really want him at all.
   ...
   However, now that Mr Canavan is not accepting the twenty pieces of silver another by election will be along shortly.
   
   It's tough being an unprincipled politician in New Labour (Too much competition).

3. 3. The Scots Independent Newspaper Online - The Flag in the Wind

   www.scotsindependent.org/2000/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/24/2000   Last Visited: 1/24/2004

   Then, lo and behold, Dennis Canavan started a reconciliation with Labour, and we were down to two. One week later, and Dennis Canavan changed his mind, or had it changed, and the headline is accurate again!
   
   What is going on between Dennis Canavan and the Labour Party? Did he find out what they really thought of him? The BBC interviewer on Newsnight was blunt when he said words to the effect "If you did not know you were only offered re admission to avoid a damaging by election, you were the only person in Scotland who didn't know that". As it is, Mr Canavan has now totally destroyed any credibility he had, and it may be that his ego is such that he feels his conduct should be acceptable, because he is "Dennis".
   
   He burned his boats when he left Labour to stand as an independent; he burned them again, more spectacularly, when he applied to rejoin, and yet again, perhaps when he found that they did not really want him at all.
   ...
   However, now that Mr Canavan is not accepting the twenty pieces of silver another by election will be along shortly.
   
   It's tough being an unprincipled politician in New Labour (Too much competition).