Wednesday, 5 November 2008

This Is Still No Time For A Novice

Whatever you think of community organisers, being a community organiser is a long way from being a Bullingdon Boy.
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19 comments:

  1. Anonymous5 November 2008 at 20:39

    I agree. But you're ambitious, and you're not even a community organiser - what are you doing to gain relevant experience?

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  2. David Lindsay6 November 2008 at 14:08

    You cleraly know absolutely nothing about me.

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  3. Anonymous6 November 2008 at 14:29

    A community organiser is a pretty good description of what David has been doing for the last 10 years, all unpaid.

    Alex Watson, outgoing Leader of Derwentside District Council (about to be abolished unfortunatley), had him lined up for a portfolio in 2003. All he had to do was get onto the Council, a formality for the official Labour nominee that year.

    Then to everyone's shock and disbelief up at Consett Civic Centre, Lanchester Labour Party nominated Hilary Armstrong's tea boy instead. He lost spectacularly, taking another seat down with him.

    David was a governor of two schools in Lanchester before that tea boy was a member of any political party. Is that enough "experience" for you? Because there is plenty more.

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  4. David Lindsay6 November 2008 at 15:24

    Water under the bridge...

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  5. Anonymous6 November 2008 at 16:09

    You should have stood as an Independent then and told everyone that you had quit Labour because of the war. You let the grass grow until 2007. Don't make that sort of mistake again.

    It is horrendous that the tea boy is on course for a seat in Parliament this time or next. His entire political record consists of half as long as you on a parish council and that's it. None of the other stuff that you have done as well, nothing.

    I assume you have never voted for him.

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  6. Anonymous6 November 2008 at 16:18

    This is interesting - I'd assumed that David's antipathy to Labour politics was entirely on principle, but it turns out he left the party shortly after failing to get the nomination for a safe Labour council seat. Much less admirable.

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  7. David Lindsay6 November 2008 at 16:27

    It wasn't a safe seat, and I didn't leave for several years after not getting it.

    Every week, I run into at least two different people with whom I used to be in the Labour Party and who are no longer in it. People who could not be further from the Hard Left, and who had been in Labour for 20, 30, 40 years.

    Unless you are in receipt of a councillor's allowance, you have almost certainly left the Labour Party. Is that "admirable" enough for you?

    As for the tea boy, well, he certainly won't be MP for this seat, being chomosomely ineligible for the Labour nomination here not just this time, but for ever. Hilary Armstrong herself is so unimpressed by the candidates that this system throws up that she might not retire after all.

    No, of course I have never voted for him. I never even put my hand up when he was co-opted onto the Parish Council, even though I was chairing the Labour Party Branch at the time.

    And he has never worked outside politics, let the reader understand. None of them ever has these days.

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  8. Anonymous6 November 2008 at 16:29

    "Unless you are in receipt of a councillor's allowance, you have almost certainly left the Labour Party."

    I'm not, and I haven't.

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  9. David Lindsay6 November 2008 at 16:32

    As I said, "almost".

    One really does have to ask why, but that is not this thread.

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  10. Ælfheah7 November 2008 at 00:41

    I know which I'd be more likely to trust with the nation's finances.

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  11. David Lindsay7 November 2008 at 16:58

    A cocaine addict? Or his boss, Black Wednesday Man?

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  12. Anonymous7 November 2008 at 17:08

    Addict? Really? I'm quite prepared to believe he's used cocaine in the past, but I've no reason to think he's an addict.

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  13. David Lindsay7 November 2008 at 17:28

    Who?

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  14. Anonymous7 November 2008 at 17:29

    Osborne.

    Why, who were you referring to?

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  15. David Lindsay7 November 2008 at 17:31

    There.

    You said it.

    Not me.

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  16. Anonymous7 November 2008 at 17:32

    Are you honestly denying that you intended to refer to George Osborne? Because if not, I've no idea who you think you were talking about.

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  17. David Lindsay7 November 2008 at 17:38

    I'm denying nothing.

    I merely note that when I wrote "a cocaine addict" and you read it, you immediately thought "George Osborne".

    Indeed, you clearly regard it as obvious to the point of self-evidence.

    I merely note that, too.

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  18. Anonymous7 November 2008 at 17:42

    No. When you wrote "cocaine addict", I immediately thought "That's not George Osborne, because he's not a cocaine addict, but in context this can only be read as a reference to Osborne and Cameron (Black Wednesday man, and Osborne's boss), and that's weird".

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  19. David Lindsay7 November 2008 at 17:49

    Course you did.

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