Thursday 6 December 2007

The Grandchildren of Jenkins and Thatcher

I am incandescent. I've just got off a packed bus on which Sixth Formers sat in state while pensioners stood. Forget financial corruption. This is why our entire Political Class and its media and other cultural associates, together with all their Eighties and surviving Sixties heroes and gurus, should be clapped in irons. Is anyone pointing out that Blair's Children are the grandchildren of both Jenkins and Thatcher? Oh, yes.
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13 comments:

  1. Tobias Gregson7 December 2007 at 08:59

    Did you say anything to them or did you just stand and let the hatred and fear bubble away inside you?

    I find that half-measures aren't good enough when dealing with youths these days: even the middle-class ones are semi-feral. You're best off either keeping your mouth shut and not making eye contact or, as when I found some particularly rat-faced specimens sniffing around near the back of my house, unleashing a torrent of abuse and profanity whilst brandishing a metal bar. You have to imply with your body language and with spit-flecked, wild-eyed yelling that you are mentally unstable, care not for your personal safety and capable of extreme and random violence. It is interesting to note that these two options are what Ray Mears recommends if you encounter a bear in the North American wilderness.

    The middle way of softly-spoken, English disdain will earn you a stabbing. I don't know how a bear would react.

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  2. Anonymous7 December 2007 at 12:05

    Sorry? Are you saying that Tony Blair is the child of Roy Jenkins and Margaret Thatcher?

    Of all the bits of political gossip you've shared with us on this site, this one's the juiciest.

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  3. David Lindsay7 December 2007 at 16:20

    Ben, politically speaking, yes. Thatcher supported most of the Jenkins Agenda on the floor of the House of Commons, and vigorously defends it in her autobiography.

    Her own social policies were entirely in the same vein, while her economic policies derived from the same principles and were designed to entrench that social approach economically, which is exactly what they did and what they have continued to do.

    Blair uncritically adopted both the social and the economic dimensions and entrenched them even further, both in themselves and by altering the constitutional settlement in order to conform to the notions underlying them.

    Tobias, these were impecacbly middle-class, all right. I know some of their families. But I wouldn't have dared say anything, even though, as readers of this blog will have gathered, I am not necessarily the most weak-willed of people.

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  4. Anonymous7 December 2007 at 16:25

    Thatcher supported most of the Jenkins Agenda on the floor of the House of Commons

    She "supported most of the Jenkins Agenda"? And, some time later, she gave birth to Tony Blair? That's a particularly unpleasant euphemism.

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  5. David Lindsay7 December 2007 at 16:34

    Euphemism?

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  6. Anonymous7 December 2007 at 16:45

    Ben can mock all he likes, but I've seen David in the flesh and he's hot.

    I'd be happy to support the Lindsay agenda any time - on the floor of the House of Commons, in bed, anywhere he likes.

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  7. David Lindsay7 December 2007 at 16:52

    Let's start at the ballot box for now, Angela. And then see what develops from there...

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  8. Anonymous7 December 2007 at 16:55

    You can stuff my ballot box any time you like, David.

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  9. David Lindsay7 December 2007 at 17:02

    I think we'd better get back on-topic now.

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  10. Anonymous7 December 2007 at 17:04

    Is that what you call it?

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  11. David Lindsay7 December 2007 at 17:10

    Enough! Political comments only from now on.

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  12. John A8 December 2007 at 03:00

    So having alienated women, young people, Marxists, capitalists, liberals and neoconservatives, who's your next target David?

    Clearly I wasn't there, but was the difference in your day the greater deference of Sixth Formers or the greater willingness of pensioners to imply with their body language and with spit-flecked, wild-eyed yelling that they are mentally unstable, care not for their personal safety and capable of extreme and random violence?

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  13. David Lindsay10 December 2007 at 15:42

    I have not "alienated" women or young people, and I am delighted if I have "alienated" the other categories that you list.

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