Stephen Colbert's endorsement of Herman Cain, who is apparently a good enough sport to be appearing with him at some rally in South Carolina, calls to mind the late, great "Break Dancing Jesus" of below the line here.
One of the Greatest Hits of that Greatest District Councillor Whom Lanchester Never Had related to my reference to the concept of the planned economy as having come down to the Attlee Government, via the Liberal Keynes, from "the conservative Colbert".
A man who not long afterwards had at least one regional newspaper announce as a fact that he was going to be the next Labour MP for a seat on which an all-women shortlist was then immediately imposed, thought that this was a reference to Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report.
Oh, well, at least the latest outburst by Ed Balls means that, like most or all of his colleagues, dear little BDJ is no longer in the unhappy position of only remaining in the Labour Party because it employs him.
For the first time since the bundling out of the Butcher of Basra (probably not a Labour Party member for more than a decade now), BDJ really does agree with what that party stands for, and cheerfully devotes his every waking moment to making it a reality.
Nothing could better illustrate the urgency of the need for something better, in this Parliament.
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All right, so he doesn't have your brains, your looks, your style, your charm, your way with words, your cross-party and cross-class appeal, but who the hell has? He had to put up with four years of being blamed for the loss of two seats in Lanchester, blamed for you not being the portfolio holding district councillor that Alex had lined you up to be, blamed for you leaving the party, blamed for everything. He has been humiliated enough over the women only short list, he will never get a seat now, he will be putting the kettle on until he is 65. Give him a break.
ReplyDeleteYou have more influence than him with everyone who really matters and you think the party, which you refuse to rejoin, should be replaced in this Parliament. It would take a heart of stone not to laugh, which might be why you call him Little Nell.
ReplyDeleteAssume the last three paragraphs also apply to Ethno Tom?
ReplyDeleteLittle Nell, I love it. As detailed on here at the time, you reported him to the standards board because he was a parish councillor and the parliamentary standards commissioner because the kettle he was putting on at the time belonged to an MP.
ReplyDeleteYou said he had conspired to murder you, copied it to a load of hacks, posted it all on here and accused the authorities of letting him off the hook because he worked for a cabinet minister. Talk about damaged goods. You are a class act, Mr. Lindsay. A proper fighter.
What else was it you used to call him? Small Cigar?
Nothing but a jumped up fag.
ReplyDeleteThere is absolutely no evidence that Break Dancing Jesus is who you say he is, and as for your reporting of him to the standards board and the parliamentary commssioner it is good to see some attention to your methods on your own doorstep. One incident outside a pub with some of his relatives who had finally had enough of your vicious Internet campaign against him, so this was how you reacted as part of your long term branding of those highly respectable people as a bad family. They have all been driven out of the village now, I expect you are glad. But haven't you heard, David Lindsay is a saint?
ReplyDeleteThey did not seem "highly respectable" when one of them had his hands around my throat while another one shouted, of our mutual friend, "You've ruined his career! You've ruined his career!" And you haven't exactly done it any good with this, luv.
ReplyDeleteThe tragedy is that you would have been satisfied with being a distict, now a unitary county, councillor. Hilary would have arranged a parliamentary seat for him somewhere for running her office and you would both have been happy, even if the blogosphere would never have heard of you. You might even have been able to remain on speaking terms or capable of being in the same room together. You were friends once. It is all very sad.
ReplyDeleteA preening, self-regarding, arrogant, ill mannered pretty boy from the local public sector aristocracy, I don't know how you ever could stand to be anywhere near him. The story goes that he came back from university and just took over the Labour party and the parish council getting himself a job with Hilary Armstrong so he could pull rank. I'm surprised at the likes of Ozzie and Colin for putting up with it, but I don't know politics from the inside so who knows what might have been going on. Anyhow he lost Labour two district seats out of three including Colin's and would have wiped the party out in Lanchester if the opposition had not been in total disarray.
ReplyDeleteLabour's only ever overall majority of the vote in the Lanchester ward was when you were subagent. They have never forgiven you, adding an insult of the electorate to the injury of you by putting up him instead and knowingly losing two seats out of three. Even if Labour was exactly the party you envisage, you still would never join it again and I don't blame you.
ReplyDeleteLike you I remember him all the way back at school. Not that he showed any political interest in those days, unlike you.
ReplyDeleteHilary Armstrong would have found him a safe seat if he had not had a lost council seat on his record. But it would never have occurred to him that the plebs might not vote for him.
It would have killed him to let you have a district nomination instead no matter how much work you had already done in Lanchester while he was at pop concerts or football matches or something. While you were a school governor, he was doing that. Obviously better qualifying him for the council or Parliament.
He has never changed. He is Special and everybody else must never be allowed to forget it. As someone said before, the right family.
He doesn't look too Special now, mind.
They are anti-Establishment, remember? They might be the local public sector aristocracy, a very good phrase, whose thick as mince sons are given district council nominations as coming of age presents. But they are anti-Establishment, the insurgents, the radicals. How dare you suggest otherwise.
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