What an extraordinary, yet utterly unsurprising, comment on a previous post.
In the world maintained by the Michaels Levy and Ashcroft, one the criminal salesman of seats in our very legislature and the other not even resident in this country for tax purposes, the idea of having to raise funds is as alien as the idea of needing to deliver leaflets or anything of that nature, and therefore of needing people at community level throughout a constituency in order to do such things.
Do the imposed parliamentary candidates of the present and the future even know how parliamentary candidates are nominated? I hope not, since that would be the end of that if they ever found out. "Having to collect the signatures of local people? I don't think so, sweetie."
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I don't think it was the subject of the email so much as its evidence desperation. It almost screamed "help me, help me, I have absolutely no cash". Which tends to put donors off.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever read a fund raising appeal by any other political candidate? Have you ever read one as desperate and pleading as that? Its a very unprofessional letter.
ReplyDeleteI feel that my point is proved. Absolutely no idea how real world politics works. Thank God that your pretendly separate pretend-parties will have merged within 10 years, probably five. Then the rest of us can have real ones again. And they will be the ones in government at any level.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a letter, Con, it's a round-robin to a Facebook group.
ReplyDeleteI realise that the idea of having to raise money - from ordinary people! - is completely alien to you, but that is why you and your criminally corrupt kind are the problem.
Didnt you confidently assure us months ago that the money situation was sewn up?
ReplyDeleteNor have they any interest in policy, which bores them stiff.
ReplyDeleteMold, if you'd ever been involved in anything so common as a political campaign properly so called, then you'd know that it always needs more money.
ReplyDeleteWith such a record, you could never been a New Labour or New Tory PPC. But you'd be a hell of a more rounded individual, and therefore a hell of a better politician.
Tim, tell me about it. But, of course, they have no principles. It is all a game to them, in which the trappings of office are the only prizes. Gant, Con, Mold: textbook cases.
They probably have politics degrees. Most people with politics degrees are not remotely interested in politics. Look at David Cameron.
ReplyDeleteIf you can bear to.
ReplyDeleteIf they already have degrees then they are told old to be NuLab or BluLab PPCs. Just look at NW Durham. The hostile commenters on here are alright though. They can't even have started their degrees yet.
ReplyDeleteThey have the day off school because of the snow.
ReplyDeleteNot that they can admit this, since that would be to admit the need for coal mines and nuclear power stations, of neither of which they have ever even heard, so safe seats really do seem to beckon.
Mind you, look how old Hoon and Hewitt are, and they still behave like fifth-rate student hacks.
On politics courses they will have been taught that Thatcherite economics and military-industrial foreign policy are conservative.
ReplyDeleteThey will have been taught that the Left consists of the 57 varieties of Marxism in universities.
They will have been quietly encouraged to spot how the two dovetail perfectly in the 21st century but can still pretend to be poles apart to give the illusion of voter choice.
That will be their worldview and they have certificates to prove it is correct.
They would have been much better employed reading this blog.
Not only that, Steve, but where the Thatcherite neocons and the Marxist academics agree must be the centre ground, mustn't it? After all they are as you say poles apart.
ReplyDeleteReading David Lindsay regularly has changed my life and I wish it would change theirs.
Thank you, both of you.
ReplyDelete"the 57 varieties of Marxism in universities"
Well, that certainly brings us back to Hewitt. And probably to Hoon, too.
If it wasn't for the photograph at the top of the page I'd never believe that this was the same David Lindsay.
ReplyDeleteIn the flesh he gets on stormingly well with normal age undergraduates and they respond very well to him. But on here he rants against their contemporaries both in Iran and on the NW Durham short list, dismissing them as "callow" and that sort of thing.
Which David Lindsay is the real one and which is a persona?
If any of my tutees stood for Parliament where I was living, then I would not vote for them. They would be too young. Simple as that.
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