Saturday, 6 December 2014

OutReach

You know, like OutRage.

"Tony Blair reaches out to Gove"? No surprise there, then.

Blair was known as "Miranda" in his youth. (Which youth was he in? Boom, Boom.) I remember Gove speaking at Durham many years ago, and he was noticeably camp even by the standards of his hosts.

He used to share a flat with Ivan Massow and Nick Boles, before The Times conveniently supplied the fragrant Sarah Vine, assisting his political progress no end. And look at the forces protecting him now.

Gove is also an outspoken admirer of Blair and of Blair's veteran Trotskyist bagmen, Alan Milburn and Stephen Byers.

Fresh out of Oxford, Gove applied for a job with the Conservative Research Department. But it turned him down, being unable to find any evidence that he was a Conservative, or even political at all.

So he joined The Times instead. Again, though, look at him now.

And still having frequent, off-the-record meetings with Rupert Murdoch. When not throwing a wobbly at those of his nominal partisans who had voted with Labour in order to prevent a war against Syria.

That night, he had to be led away by the Whips. Having been sacked as Education Secretary, he has since been made Chief Whip.

He is the worst Chief Whip in a quarter of a century. But it doesn't matter. Other forces are in play. And at play.

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