I am also available to become Leader of the
Conservative Party.
Fashionably touched with the tar brush. But not
so much. And not so much as to be called anything other than David Alexander
Stephen Lindsay.
No estuary accent here. Nor any money made in
trade, darling.
Plenty of Tory MPs know how to get in touch.
I think that Damian Thompson, with his keen wit & journalistic connections, would make a better leader of the Conservative Party than yourself David. Like you, Damian is an unmarried Catholic layman.
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ReplyDeleteBut on topic, please.
Excuse me, but Damian Thompson & Telegraph blogs are ALWAYS on topic where this blog is concerned.
ReplyDeleteThey most certainly are not, I am no longer pitting up anything about them.
ReplyDeleteI have to say, having finally caught Lord Glasman on Sky TV with Diane Abbot and Caroline Flint, I was singularly unimpressed.
ReplyDeleteIt was all "motherhood and apple pie" guff about "relationships, communities, reciprocity"; the interviewer had to repeatedly call Mr Glasman back to Earth to tell us what his concrete policy ideas were!
All his airy-fairy stuff about empowering people and rebuilding communities etc is utterly, utterly meaningless unless we a) withdraw from the EU and b) freeze immigration.
He didn't suggest either of these things.
Nor did he suggest the only educational reform that would work (not dividing schools up between parents, teachers and businesses, as he said) but restoring selection by academic ability.
No other system can combine academic excellence with discipline and the early specialisation needed to realise individual talent.
But this, as Peter Hitchens rightly says, is Labour's true Clause 4-the egalitarian comprehensive school revolution of the 1960's goes to the core of Labour, and can never be abandoned without splitting the party.
They are institutionally wedded to the ideas now destroying our finest Universities.
If Glasman were ever to drop the abstract, airy-fairy stuff and suggest the reintroduction of grammar schools, that would be the end of him.
That is far too radical for the Establishment.
Only UKIP promise it.
You need to read him. Or meet him in the flesh, which is quite an experience. Television is not his natural medium.
ReplyDeleteYou need to grow out of your fanboy regurgitation of Peter Hitchens, who would find it hilarious. For one thing, he likes Blue Labour. For another, he despises UKIP, far more than I do.
Blue Labour looks like a "New Labour"style re-branding exercise.
ReplyDeleteUntil, and unless, this so-called "blue Labour" formation comes up with any conservative policies, and gets Miliband to adopt them, it's all just pie in the sky.
We need to see a solid policy commitment....withdrawal from the EU, support for traditional marriage in the tax and benefit system, grammar schools, a freeze on immigration, revoking legally-enforced political correctness (Equalities Act, Human Rights Act etc)
Until then, Glasman and Miliband are just giving us spin with no substance.
"Reciprocity, relationship-building, uniting communities around Common Good"...it really does sound like the meaningless catch-phrases cooked up in political PR departments.
And your just jealous you don't have any fans. Or a newspaper column.
I have no idea what that last bit means, and I suspect that nor have you. As for my "fans", my dear boy, if you only knew...
ReplyDeleteYou are missing the point, of course. Half-educated, and what have you. Specific policies will follow in due season. That is not primarily what this is about.