What I wrote at Lib Dem Voice

March 05, 2007

Neologisms revisited

As the hunt goes on to discover the identity of the senior party official who issued the unauthorised briefing suggesting Ming Campbell’s spring conference speech was the precursor to coalition talks with Labour, can I be the first person to label this episode ‘Harrogategate’?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It was Mark Littlewood as is pretty widely known now.

James Graham (Quaequam Blog!) said...

Can I be the first person to label this episode ‘Harrogategate’?

No.

Jonathan Calder said...

If there is a controversy over who thought of the name first, will it be called "Harrogategategate"?