I have been accused (you would never believe by whom) of "trying to become Prime
Minister"!
What, by being a state school, non-Oxbridge, mixed-race,
Northern, disabled convert to Catholicism, who was born abroad, who has never
been elected above Parish level, who still lives in rural County Durham, who has never been married, who has no children, and
who is not a member of any political party?
Yes, dear. Of course I am trying to
become Prime Minister.
Good for you. You could EASILY do better than the the other shower!
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ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time you wanted to be an MP. Your hopes have been dashed as your life just has not turned out the way that you had hoped. I'm sorry David.
Have you considered the Priesthood? Al ate blooming vocation...
You are very kind, but I am quite content with what (increasingly) I am doing at the One Nation Society and The Lanchester Review. I am a very happy man.
ReplyDeleteThis is your personal blog. Perhaps as the Lanchester Review gains momentum you may be willing to devote more space on this blog to writing about your own experiences as a Catholic layman in an ordinary English parish.
ReplyDeleteIf you continue to reject the priesthood then perhaps you might take a look at married life. I'm sure that the number of young churchgoing Catholic women your age is greater than the number of men. Perhaps you should look through the church to find a wife.
Let's just leave that one where it is, shall we?
ReplyDeleteDavid, I simply wish to see you continue to flourish as an Englishman of The Faith. Are we not an Easter people? Our hearts must be open to new life.
ReplyDeleteWhat an adornment to Durham and to the world of think tanks is Mr Lindsay.
ReplyDeleteOne does one's best, darling.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine Durham without you. You'll be buried with your staff card.
ReplyDeleteOh, I fully intend to be.
ReplyDeleteBy the time that it is once again up for renewal (which took me two minutes last time), I shall have been on the books one way or another for a couple of months over 20 years.
With the same email address continuously, the first email address that I ever had. Yes, I am that old. It might go on working, enabling people to contact me without recourse to a medium.
But on topic, please.
There is nowhere else like Durham, allegedly a university but more like a series of overlapping gentlemen's clubs. Once you are in, you are in for life if you want to be. Certain individuals with few or no discernible duties are like ringworm of dry rot. Professors, principals, even higher up than that come and go but they, you are constant. Get to carry staff cards with full use of libraries and computers like academics, far superior to the access rights of paying students. Get to have university email addresses. And did you get a P60 recently? I bet you did. I guarantee you did. You can't get a P60 for £0:00. But what the hell, you are everybody's mate, the irreplaceable David Lindsay? You are not the only one but you must be one of the worst. I'm never setting foot in the place again as long as I live.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing, your email address still works but you are far too grand to appear in the directory. Too important or something! Not a proper university at all. An invitation only club, nonmembers not welcome. Most students and proper academics only guests. You insiders can just ignore them if they challenge your quiet domination of the place.
ReplyDeleteOn topic, please.
ReplyDeleteYou don't know the half of it. Nobody else could have got away with saying the things he has said on here about a former Cabinet minister now in the Lords and a serving regional director of the Labour party.
ReplyDeleteAnybody else would have been sued and probably arrested. But mere former Cabinet ministers now in the Lords and mere regional directors of the Labour party are nobody compared with the great David Lindsay. That is now proved.
The local Labour bigwigs here are a disgrace who ignored his party expulsion as completely as they possibly could and these days go round openly calling him "the MP who should have been our MP". I don't believe for one moment he is any less ambitious than he has always been so they amount to a party within a party.
The One Nation Society and even more so the Lanchester Review are basically name dropping, willy waving: "Look how well connected I am, I can get all these people to write for my hobby for free". The trouble is he is.
I am closing this thread.
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