Just in from the Vigil Mass, since tomorrow morning is the retirement of the very longstanding Vicar, who took my father's funeral and my sister's wedding, and with whom I was a school governor for eight years.
Like any gathering of Catholics, a very high proportion of those present was made up of teachers, retired teachers, and the spouses of the same. There is another great national institution like that. The teachers' unions may not be affiliated to the Labour Party. But Ed Miliband is still a very, very, very brave man indeed to question anything short, if that, of armed insurrection against the slightest adverse tampering with teachers' pension arrangements.
Perhaps there is a case after all for Leaders who did not necessarily come up through the party machine out here in the country? If Miliband had done so, then he would never have dared oppose a teachers' strike on the pensions issue. The miners never had anything on them, either in terms of attitude, or in terms of sheer weight of numbers within the Labour Party.
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You know, I had clean forgotten that you were a convert. No one would ever guess.
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