Saturday 11 June 2011

Counterfactual

The speech that The Other One would have delivered? I ask you!

Half of last night's Newsnight was devoted to the alleged failings of a Leader whose party was ahead in the polls, had recently made gains at local elections, and was recruiting members at an impressive rate, although see below on that. Even the other side could not be bothered to take this programme seriously, stooping so low as to send Truss The Trollop instead of a serious figure. The BBC's employment of Emily Maitlis is a breach of its charter, and the entire media now need to be reported to the Electoral Commission for functioning as an off-the-books campaigns desk in the Heir to Blair's private office.

Tony Blair cut Labour Party membership in half, and those joining now are either re-joining because the victory of Ed Miliband has delivered their party from Blairism once and for all, or else signing up for the first time because they came of age during the New Labour years and therefore had no party to join. They need to hang fire, probably until the end of this year, possibly even longer. The media campaign to remove Ed Miliband, install his brother and thus remove any opposition to Blair's fourth and fifth terms is very ferocious indeed and, it gives me no pleasure to write, may yet succeed.

Yet this Blairite Government is crying out for a proper Opposition, and is in fact being given one, which the Blairite media therefore refuse to report. After health and sentencing, the flagship schools policy, originally devised by David Miliband for Tony Blair, is also now to be "reviewed". I think we all know what that "review" will conclude.

3 comments:

  1. "The BBC's employment of Emily Maitlis is a breach of its charter..."

    I thought that the employment of Emily Maitlis was like the employment of Susanna Reid or Fiona Bruce.

    A reminder to the thinking man that the license fee might be worth it.

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  2. "The BBC's employment of Emily Maitlis is a breach of its charter..." Explain please.

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  3. If she's not a CCHQ plant, then they have got lucky beyond their wildest dreams.

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