The next Lib Dem Leader will certainly be English, so if Brown really is replaced with either an unambiguously English caretaker (Straw, Johnson) or an unambiguously English full-blown successor (Balls, one of the Milibands), then it really will be the end of the line for Cameron, whose English public school, Oxbridge degree, marriage into the English baronetage, and safe Tory seat in (these days) the Home Counties are all part and parcel of his being a classic posh Scot complete with one house in London and another in rural Scotland (on the Isle of Jura).
Do Alan Johnson and David Davis have adjacent constituencies, as had Tony Blair and William Hague? Just a thought.
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I think you're being a bit premature on replacing Brown. But in any case: why on earth would the existence of an English Labour leader spell the end of the line for Cameron? What motivation, and what process, do you have in mind?
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see the end of the loathesome David "There's plenty of proud Scottish blood in these veins and I'm going to stand up to the sour little Englanders" Cameron.
ReplyDeleteBut the Lib Dem front-runner Clegg has a Dutch mother, half-Russian father and a Spanish wife. And like Chris Huhne (whose wife is Greek) they identify with Europe first and foremost. Anyone asking them to actually stand up for their English constituents is likely to get short shrift. It seems the political elites are determined to commit cultural genocide on the English (of whatever provenance) as we are the ones most likely to derail their cosy little gravy train.
"Why on earth would the existence of an English Labour leader spell the end of the line for Cameron? What motivation, and what process, do you have in mind?"
ReplyDeleteThe Tories have been playing the English card, first because they knew that Brown was coming and then because they knew that he had come.
But Cameron, though (like Blair) English compared to Brown, is (like Blair) at least Scot-ish compared to say, Alan Johnson, or Jack Straw, or Ed Balls, or one of the Milibands. Like Blair, Cameron has never actually described himself as English.
"the English (of whatever provenance) are the ones most likely to derail their cosy little gravy train"
Really? How, exactly?