My friend Phillip Blond, of Facebook’s David Lindsay Appreciation Society, popped up first in Saturday’s Guardian and then in the Mail on Sunday.
He is right about private monopolies, of course. But only a strong State can act against them. However, that State must itself be constrained, as must otherwise over-mighty commercial interests, by its own guaranteeing to every household of a base of real property.
Phillip went to a secondary modern. They were good schools, vastly better than what has replaced them. And he remains a fervent advocate of selection. So his alliance with Cameron cannot possibly last very long.
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That website - you are blatantly unaware of being mocked are you?!
ReplyDeleteI can confirm that David and Phillip are old friends. The real hard core though are the members of David Lindsay for North-West Durham MP. Phillip can't be in it because of his other work but his main collaborator Adrian Pabst is in it. So is Phillip's mentor John Milbank, the massively influential godfather of Radical Orthodoxy.
ReplyDeleteIs there a Break Dancing Jesus Appreciation Society? Or a Break Dancing Jesus for North-West Durham MP group?
I can't see it, Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteDavid, since there's not going to be a women only shortlist after all, you would have been a shoo in if the Lanchester party had done as it was told in 2004. No wonder you hate BDJ. No wonder everyone hates BDJ.
I'll second that, Jim. He thought he'd robbed us of the MP we should have had. But now David is standing as an Independent with the full backing of everyone annoyed by New Labour nationally and because of the abolition of the District Councils.
ReplyDeleteQuite a few people seem to be making the somewhat obvious point that Phillip Blond is to David Cameron what Anthony Giddens was for Tony Blair. Red Tory, Blue Labour! Do not touch with a ten-foot pole.
ReplyDeleteYou don't know anything about Rdaical Orthodoxy, do you? It has rather diffused these days. But Blairism it certainly isn't.
ReplyDeleteAnother reason why Phillip's alliance with Cameron won't last, just as his alliance with Demos didn't.
All I can say to that is that I'm pleased to hear it - for his sake if not ours.
ReplyDelete(But does he know it himself, I wonder?)