I see wily Nicola Sturgeon is using Corbyn's unelectability as an excuse to push for another referendum. When no-one gave him a hope of winning, not-so-wily Salmond was waxing lyrical about the prospect of working together with him!
He was described in the German paper Die Weld as "a Utopian, not fit for the real world". Rather pithy, I thought. But if you read Private Eye as I unashamedly do, you can read a factual comparison between what he actually says and what the media reports him as saying, and there is a wide gulf, I can assure you. If he is that bad, why is there a need to misquote him on a regular basis? If he is such an idiot, there should be no need to make it up. Could it be that there are newspapers who don't let the truth get in the way of a good story? Shurely not! Unless they are appealing to readers who demand this type of shoddy journalism?
What about him, FHB? He's screwed over the most vulnerable in this country and is nothing but an odious hobgoblin. As for Diane Abbott, her appointment as a minister is an aberration and will do nothing to endear middle England to Labour. Anyway, I'm no Conservative: they are far too moderate for me.
As a staunch labour follower, she is the biggest embarrassment to politics as Boris Johnson is. There's a woman who is vindictive.
Abbott has quite a reputation too for being rude & aggressive to the 'little people' including catering staff, back room people, police, cleaners etc. I have seen it myself. Just the sort of people she purports to care about.
I wonder if you ever knew my Scottish mate Bill, an electrician who used to do the PA systems for the select committees? He found John Redwood a very nice bloke to talk to, but found Mrs. T quite horrible, and John Major aloof.
Politicians are very often different in private to their public personas. Ted Heath had a good reputation for treating people well. "Sunny" Jim Callaghan on the other hand was hard work.
Ted Heath wished me a Merry Christmas once. I was walking past his house in Salisbury (where my in-laws live) on Christmas Eve, when we stopped to admire his house and pass a favourable comment or two about his decorations. Suddenly his voice boomed out "Merry Christmas" from a speaker somewhere. So I shouted back "F**k of you fascist hyena!" (I made that bit up)
Think he wears a white poppy as he's a pacifist. I think the perception may be that that's disrespectful but I don't buy into that.
I missed the game; was it on show at the ground? Ponders - I think he simply advocated talking to Sinn Fein in the 1980s, which again isn't that controversial as 15 years later that's what happened isn't it?
