Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Sackless

What is Michael "We Thought He'd Gone" Gove doing on my television?

Say what you like about Hilary. Seriously, say whatever the hell you like about Hilary.

But when she was Chief Whip, she was Chief Whip.
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11 comments:

  1. Anonymous2 October 2014 at 00:26

    It must be 10 years since you called her a bed blocker. It's incredible, you and your mates in the old Watson machine still believe she was illegitimately occupying Dave Watkins' seat until 2005 and illegitimately occupying yours after that. You and they truly think she should have stood down for you at a few months short of 28, you would now be looking forward to your second decade and third term as an MP, you would be in the Shadow Cabinet or a backbencher who had put reams of legislation on the statute book, you would have at least two newspaper columns, you would be on the radio and television most days, your book a year would be published by whoever you wanted with forewords by Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, the best journalists would be queuing up to review you, you would stand a good chance of becoming Deputy Leader next year, Watson might very well be in the Lords and poor Neil Fleming would be working at a missionary clinic in the Andes.

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    1. David Lindsay2 October 2014 at 00:46

      Worth putting up for that last line alone.

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    2. Anonymous2 October 2014 at 02:10

      He'd have been so lucky to have been sent up the Andes.

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    3. Anonymous2 October 2014 at 02:26

      In 50 years in politics at every level, I have never seen pure hatred like there is between David Lindsay and Neil Fleming. It is frightening.

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    4. Anonymous3 October 2014 at 14:35

      I've never seen anything so pointless. Fleming is Ed's bodyguard and was featured as an Ed Banger on the front page of a newspaper. He single handedly protected Ed from the baying Scottish public. The man's a hero. Deal with it.

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    5. David Lindsay3 October 2014 at 16:16

      We laughed long and loud in Lanchester at those pictures. Very long and very loud, indeed.

      Even as a This Miliband supporter (unlike Fleming), imagine being so weedy that you need to be protected by her.

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  2. Anonymous2 October 2014 at 00:43

    Almost charming watching Cameron try and pretend to be Right-wing now an election is approaching.

    Of course he's right to say the country that wrote Magna Carta and the 1688 Bill of Rights doesn't need Strasbourg.

    But he already promised to scrap Labour's Human Rights Act at the last election.

    As he pledged to cut immigration to "tens of thousands".

    As he pledged a referendum on the EU Constitution.

    As he pledged tax cuts not least on business National Insurance contributions (a tax on job creation) and inheritance and a transferrable tax allowance for married couples so single people weren't better off than the married.

    None of these pledges were honoured.

    The Tories desperation to fight off UKIP is obvious.

    But at least these policies are now being advanced on the conference floor by a Parliamentary party. That's progress of sorts. From leaving the European Convention on Human Rights to ending mass immigration to cutting the 40p tax on aspiration, what was unthinkable just a few years ago is very very thinkable now.

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    1. David Lindsay2 October 2014 at 00:47

      It's all a sideshow. Tonight's polls show a seven-point Labour lead that would result in an overall majority of 88. The lead is 11 in the key marginals. It's all over.

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  3. Anonymous2 October 2014 at 01:55

    My favourite line from you about her was always: "If you said the word metropolitan to Hilary, she'd think it was a type of ice cream."

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    1. David Lindsay2 October 2014 at 01:57

      I had forgotten that one.

      Happy days.

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    2. Anonymous2 October 2014 at 02:09

      My favourite was when he used to ask which other bad families she recruited her staff from, seeing as how she employed you know who.

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