Cameron could have dealt with 100 rebels, if there had been that many, on his own side. But not if they had been marching into the division lobby behind the entire Parliamentary Labour Party.
And that was what would have happened. The man who has kept us out of this wretched new treaty, which makes fiscal expansion illegal, is Ed Miliband. Any chance of, so to speak, some credit?
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You should credit too, Mr L, for being such a huge intellectual influence on Lord Glasman's and Ed's thinking.
ReplyDeleteHardly!
ReplyDeleteAlthough you'll have given one of them a good laugh with that one.
Your influence at only one degree's remove is frightening to anyone who pays attention. The wrong Miliband really does believe Glasman's ludicrous analysis about who the party needs to reach, and Glasman really does believe your ludicrous presentation of yourself as the voice of those people. I'd love them to meet you in the flesh, Savile Row suited and speaking like the Dowager Countess of Grantham. I hope that you are widely interviewed when your book comes out, it will burst your bubble in spectacular fashion. Or are you going to affect a Geordie accent?
ReplyDeleteCertainly not. I'm from County Durham.
ReplyDeleteI quite agree, 'Geordies' are Tynesiders, while people from Co Durham are Dunelmites, and a different breed altogether. Usually better balanced and not as parochial - especially against the 'Mackems' of Sunderland who are equally parochial - and have a better sense of local community because of the pit villages than the Geordies of the tyneside conurbation sprawl. It is the difference in mentality between urban and rural populations. I know which I prefer.
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