Saturday 9 May 2015

Short Shrift

The end of Harriet Harman's time as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party marks the natural end of all-women shortlists, well though that arrangement has served this constituency.

This all-BAME business will be stopped before it starts by either a Leader or a Deputy Leader who is mixed-race.

(He ought to make a television programme about his grandfather, Sir Helenus Padraic Seosamh Milmo QC, the native Irish-speaking scion of the Protestant Ascendency who became a prosecutor at Nuremberg, investigator of Kim Philby, counsel for Liberace, and a High Court judge. Empires never go away. They just come home, until someone who embodies them becomes Prime Minister.)

Or, at least, that will be true on the Labour side. The General Election has vindicated all that and more in the Conservative Party. Expect it to go on for longer, and to go further, than any Blairite ever imagined.

No, if anything, Labour should declare that, without any exception whatever, every seat that was not won in 2015 would be reserved in 2020 for a local "non-graduate" who was employed in the private sector. By no means necessarily a party member, although of course expected to join upon selection.

If they must, then they might even call this The 2020 Vision.

Some of the most interesting consequences would be in agricultural areas, reviving a tradition of farm labourer insurrection that the disappearance of the last West Country Liberals has now almost completely erased from a cod-history of perpetually Tory shires that is very far indeed from the true political history of England.

At least these days the revolting peasants will want only to deprive the Flashmen of their parliamentary seats, rather than to cut off their heads.

5 comments:

  1. Labour is finished. It's a train wreck. As Peter Hitchens wrote, it consistently betrays its voters even more seriously than the Tories betray theirs but, as he put it, "that's a problem for them".

    Or to quote directly.

    ""The difference between the two parties is that Labour is at least open about its passion for foreign rule, equality and diversity, confiscatory taxation, unsound public finances, mass immigration, terrible schools and lax criminal justice.

    Labour , by the way, has to promise its own fake programme of social transformation to its own deluded electorate, who harbour the same lingering illusion that their party possesses actual principles, and will pursue them in office.

    Indeed, I imagine that for Labour supporters a matching Groundhog Day is constantly unreeling. That is a matter for them.""

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    1. After this Election, I am starting to think that Peter Hitchens is finished. For various reasons, I hope not.

      But no one in the commentariat has lost more face this time than he has. And that is saying quite something.

      The Right in general had a dreadful night. The Leader whom they truly hated won an overall majority, and UKIP died.

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    2. We need Hitchens on the railways, public ownership, council housing, the need for unions, foreign policy, civil liberties, Europe, Trident, trade protection, not retreating into English nationalism. But you are right, he has lost a lot of credibility this time, credibility with the people we need to convince and who read things like the Mail.

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  2. Even younger than you, even more obviously mixed race than you, even posher than you, even smoother than you, if he becomes Leader NF's head will literally explode.

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