In one day.
Doubles.
Doubles all round, in that case.
Especially for Ed Miliband. You know, the man whom we are all supposed not to want as Prime Minister?
"Oona King was too cool to have anything to do with me at school," he says. But where is she now? Where is David Miliband? Where will the Bullingdon Boys be soon enough?
People want politicians who had the necessary formative experiences. Put up some football-and-pop-music boy who thinks that "metropolitan" is the name of a type of ice cream, and see if anyone votes for him.
Especially if they know that he has been preferred over a more suitable candidate who was the same age, but who had served his apprenticeship.
Especially if they know that he has been preferred over a more suitable candidate who was the same age, but who had served his apprenticeship.
What apprenticeship?
ReplyDeleteMiliband's never had a real job.
He's a flunker. Like most dropouts, he went on to join Labour.
At least Alan Johnson was a postman first.
How is it that nobody on the Labour front bench has ever actually been in business or made any money in their lives?
No one in the present Government has ever made any money.
ReplyDeleteHe's a flunker.
ReplyDeleteIs that what Oxford, Harvard, winning the Labour Electoral College on a five way split against the entire media and leading the party that has led every poll for almost an entire Parliament make him?
Like most dropouts, he went on to join Labour.
For "dropout", read "Prime Minister for 15 years".
A lead of 1 or 2% is , morally and soon we may see electorally speaking, no lead at all.
ReplyDelete"People want politicians who had the necessary formative experiences. Put up some football-and-pop-music boy who thinks that "metropolitan" is the name of a type of ice cream, and see if anyone votes for him.
ReplyDeleteEspecially if they know that he has been preferred over a more suitable candidate who was the same age, but who had served his apprenticeship."
Someone who reads this blog every day but would never admit it has made an enemy for life. The feud is going strong, what is it now, 10 years later? He is still not an MP. He won't be one next time. If he manages the time after that he will become one at the same age Tony Blair was on becoming Prime Minister.
Eleven years.
ReplyDeletesoon we may see electorally
ReplyDeleteWe are already seeing electorally, and we are not seeing that.
What does "a poll lead, morally" even mean?
Nothing. It means nothing. Thanks for pointing that one out.
ReplyDeleteYou still feel it all very acutely, don't you? Like a lot of people, I think you are right to.
ReplyDelete"Never worked outside politics" is true of your old enemy cited in this post but in many other cases it can be a difficult thing to define. What counts as politics, what doesn't?
ReplyDeleteBut "never worked" is a very easy thing to define. That's the Tories. Never had a job of any kind until election to Parliament and appointment as ministers five minutes later.