They are wetting themselves with glee over on the Guardian's blog, because of David Miliband's allegedly superb speech to the four or five non-Political Class, non-Media Class people attending this year's Labour Party Conference.
Yer what! People in the audience were asleep!
The first time I met David Miliband, he was Schools Minister and I was a supply teacher. He asked what I did, I told him, and I then added (truthfully, at the time) that the worst school in which I had ever worked was in his constituency, so what was he going to do about it? He just giggled, and walked on to the next person. I then heard him speak soon afterwards, when he described the disparity within schools (often as great as, or even greater than, that between them) as "which teacher you are given"!
His pitch for Labour Leader ended up being published in the Daily Telegraph for a laugh, after the Guardian refused to print it because it was so bad. And if he really had doubts about Iraq or Lebanon, then he should have resigned, and deserves nothing but scorn and contempt for his failure to do so.
So all you little Millies out there, please get off the bandwagon of those who insist that a Prime Minister must have an Oxford degree or (if needs must) no degree at all, the basis for the BBC's campaign for Miliband, astonishingly still going on, and apparently now joined by the Guardian.
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No, just zzz.
ReplyDeleteHe's not sinister. He's just thick and dull. But achingly privileged with it.
Talk about needing to skip a generation. The Milibands, the Balls-Coopers, Lammy, that preposterous Purnell person. Or the so-called alternatives - Cameron, Osborne, Gove, Vaizey and the Orange Book Liberals.
ReplyDeleteWho'd have thought it, a whole generation and not one of them capable of being PM. When's it going to be you, David? The sooner, the better.
"Who'd have thought it, a whole generation and not one of them capable of being PM. When's it going to be you, David? The sooner, the better."
ReplyDeleteNow that is funny....
Not funny at all I'm afraid. I'm with Anonymous 12:38 PM on this one. An entire generation of British politicians and there literally is not one of them capable of being Prime Minister. Unless you can answer that, then at the very least I can't see how David could possibly be any worse.
ReplyDeletePerhaps David Lindsay could stop throwing eggs from the sidelines, stand in an election, gives us his mandate and let the electors decide. Being a blogger, doesn't exactly equip one for being a PM...
ReplyDeleteI'd love to, and assuming (like all sensible people) a General Election in spring 2009, I will. As, by then, will a lot of other people.
ReplyDeleteIt "equips one" at least as much as never having had a job in the private sector - every single member of the Brown Cabinet, and every member of Blair's except Prescott (a ship's steward in the 50s) and Milburn (who ran a Trotskyist bookshop, Days of Hope, known to its patrons as Haze of Dope).
ReplyDeleteIt "equips one" at least as much as never having had a job outside politics - almost all politicians these days, including every single one of those listed by Anonymous 12:38 PM.
It "equips one" at least as much as never having had a job at all, like Hilary Armstrong on inheriting her father's seat at the age of 40 (everything before that listed in her Who's Who entry was voluntary work).
It "equips one" at least as much as being a barrister without ever representing anyone in court (Tony Blair), or an advocate and academic without ever either representing anyone in court or teaching anyone in a university (Gordon Brown).
Do I need to go on? Because I could.
Anonymous 5:20 PM has not answered my question. How could David possibly be any worse than the next PMs, next PMs but one and (Lord help us!) next PMs but two currently on offer?
ReplyDeleteBut two? But TWO! Is there no escape from these people? Yes there is. David Lindsay. Why not? Seriously, why not? If not him then who exactly, and why exactly?
The Milibands are a textbook case of how today's and (unless we do something about it) tomorrow's politicians were or will have been able to take jobs as MPs' dogsbodies in their early twenties, secure in the knowledge that their rich parents could make it possible for them to live in central London despite being paid pitiful salaries.
ReplyDeleteThat is how the Political Class perpetuates itself. And will continue to perpetuate itself.
Unless we do somthing about it.
from blogger to PM - yeah right...
ReplyDeleteNo more ridiculous than any of the people lsited above. A great deal less so actually. And David doesn't blog for a living you know. (Does anyone?) Whereas they really do get paid to be members of the Political Class. Like you. Paid by me in fact.
ReplyDeleteMartin honey, i have nothing to do with the political class. In fact, i'm not even part of the middle-classes. All this kicking of the political classes and from what i can see, davo just wants to become one of them.....
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