Sunday 14 October 2007

You Must Be Joking, O King

Today's Observer Music Monthly contains an interview with Oona King about dance music. It makes repeated reference to her status as a former MP, and is even illustrated with a new photograph of her outside the Palace of Westminster, the workplace from which she was sacked, and that some time ago now.

I carry no particular candle for George Galloway, who would be one of us were it not for his penchant for doing silly things like appearing on Big Brother, and who has nothing in common with the Trots and Islamists with whom he has nevertheless freely chosen to associate himself. But the fact is that it was he, and not Oona King, whom the voters chose.

Plenty of MPs lost their seats last time, and plenty of Labour MPs in particular, several whom had previously done rather better than never so much as making PPS or Assistant Whip despite having voted for the Iraq War, the privatisation of public services, the destruction of civil liberties, the lot. (To be fair, Blair was very given to bringing in women and ethnic minorities at the lowest level and then leaving them there. At least Brown is honest - he won't have them at all.)

But they certainly do not enjoy Ms King's media profile. What is going on?

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