Out of David Cameron's own mouth, the 70,000 do not exist
But in any case, we are barely involved in Syria, although some people will have died for Cameron's stunt.
For be in no doubt, his only purpose was to split the Labour Party.
Away with him, and away with his accomplices: Little Benn, Alan Johnson (who is in any case retiring in 2020; that is a very open secret), and that peculiar Jarvis character, whose presence makes one wonder whether this is Burma, or Egypt, or Pinochet's Chile.
But in any case, we are barely involved in Syria, although some people will have died for Cameron's stunt.
For be in no doubt, his only purpose was to split the Labour Party.
Away with him, and away with his accomplices: Little Benn, Alan Johnson (who is in any case retiring in 2020; that is a very open secret), and that peculiar Jarvis character, whose presence makes one wonder whether this is Burma, or Egypt, or Pinochet's Chile.
Dan Jarvis is a distinguished former army officer. He demonstrates precisely the experience of the real world that most politicians lack. Associating him with a foul totalitarian military dictatorship is pretty sinister and indicates a warped mind.
ReplyDeleteIt is the assumption that he ought to be Labour Leader, and thus Prime Minister, on the basis of it.
DeleteThat view exists only among the beta males of the Westminster Village, who seem to be awed by his sheer virility. That is indeed pretty sinister, and indicative of a warped mind.
Living your entire adult life, in his case until the day that he became an MP, as a ward of the State is "experience of the real world", is it? Does that apply more generally, so to speak?
One of the great strengths of the post-war Labour Party was the presence of ex-soldiers like Denis Healey. Healey spent much of his career opposing British military intervention not least the foolhardiness of the Great Leader, Tony Blair. What I take objection to is the haughty way in which you associate military service with foolhardy militarism. To associate being a long standing soldier with a ward of the state is absolutely bizarre. Most of us would prefer 20 more people with Jarvis' life experience on the Labour benches and twenty less professional politicians who have gone more or less straight from university to think tank to special adviser to MP etc etc.
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