A fascinating interview with Hilary Armstrong on The Week In Westminster. She said, not exactly in so many words but in words not very far removed from them, what we all know round here anyway: the London New Labour machine cannot find anyone whom it considers acceptable to become its candidate in North-West Durham.
Hilary herself is known to have thought this for some time, and was widely expected not to retire after all, so little did she think of the potential successors being lined up even before enormous numbers of MPs decided to "retire" because of the expenses furore. But she is retiring, really and simply retiring. So she has said exactly what she thinks. On Radio Four.
Even Hilary Armstrong will not be voting for the New Labour candidate in North-West Durham. Assuming that there is one.
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You always give to much emphaside to what people DID NOT say...giving us your rather strange view of what was intended.
ReplyDeleteThus people dont actually say what they mean. Thus people dont vote what they mean.
Thats a very pessimistic view.
I happen to know a lot about this case. And there is no other reason why a retiring former Cabinet Minister who never had a spending department bothered to arrange this interview.
ReplyDeleteKnowing a lot about "this" case is true. But it suggests that you may know less about other issues.
ReplyDeleteAnd there are things about which I prolly know more than you
.....Ireland for example.
Nobody knoes everything. :)
I think thats the problem with BLOGGING. You and I have set ourselves up as an authority on so many issues.
Oh, on this one, I can say it without fear of contradiction. As you can see, in fact.
ReplyDelete"without fear of contradiction" is a form of words that might well find its way into my comments :)
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