Thursday, 16 April 2015

Heartless, Brainless, Lawless

"The heart of a Conservative Government, and the brain of a Labour Government"? What astonishing, and yet not at all surprising, self-regard.

Nothing about this Coalition has suggested that the Lib Dems had any more heart than the other lot.

They are significantly less cerebral than the leading lights of Labour, who are for the most part the first politically mature fruits of the glorious harvest of comprehensive schools.

Today's Labour front bench has a mix of social backgrounds unmatched by the Labour front benches of the past, while recalling the extremely high intellectual tone of the Old Labour Governments, and thus hinting at the lost possibilities of John Smith, Bryan Gould or a full decade of Gordon Brown.

As ever, the contrast is with Conservative, and in this case also Liberal Democrat, politicians who are, frankly, self-parodic.

A man who taught at Harvard is on course to replace as Prime Minister a man who ought to have been a sixth generation Tory backbencher of utter obscurity but eventual knighthood. The echoes of 1945 and 1964 are deafening.

The Lib Dem manifesto has been written by the thief, David Laws. Say no more.

2 comments:

  1. Stephen Glover says it all: "There's hardly a word I disagree with in the UKIP manifesto. And I know the other parties are lying to me...""

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3041058/STEPHEN-GLOVER-s-hardly-word-disagree-Ukip-s-manifesto-know-parties-lying-But.html

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    1. "While respecting Ukip and admiring its courage, I can’t, alas, take it seriously. Which is why, come May 7, like many millions of others I will be placing my ‘X’ elsewhere."

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