Can't argue with that, his campaign has been nothing short of a shambles. More worryingly is that Corbyn looks likely to retain his place. Smug twat.
Labour and LibDems are in a bit of dire state given that there is no viable leaders coming through. Sadly we're going to have a conservative government for sometime, unless I can convince more people to vote for Howling Laud Hope and his party.
Had a look at Harold Wilson's gravestone yesterday. Politicians were a bit different then. I'm sure I could hear him spinning like a top. When McMillan retired he became Chancellor of Oxford University, Wilson wrote his memoirs, Sir Alec bred Hereford cattle. The revolving door to privatised industries from the government departments which sold them off began with Lord Tebbitt, and is now the normal practice. Nice work if you can get it.
There are some good people in the labour party, the problem is that none of them wanted to look like a centre left/right bully forcing the Socialist Workers representative from his leadership of the Labour Party.... so they have let a Welsh village idiot have a go knowing he will fail. The Labour MP's seem resigned to losing the next general election under Corbyn at which point they will appoint a sensible (electable) leader. Can't help feeling that May knows this and that she has a 'free pass' for the next elections which is why she has not called a snap general election now.
He wasn't cabinet minister. The difference now is that ministers are blatantly exploiting their position to accept favours from firms who benefit from privatisation. Private Eye has an excellent supplement, thoroughly researched, detailing all the cabinet ministers benefiting from this particular gravy train. Recommended reading for anyone interested in the seedy side of politics in general, not just one party. V
Corbyn recently said he would not necessarily resign if he lost the general election. Another problem is that the Labour Party is now full of members who will vote for him whatever, he is a saint in their eyes. Len McCluskey has donated a quarter of a million pounds of Union money to his campaign. I'd be livid if I was a member!
FHB: Off the top of my head I can name 6 Blair Cabinet ministers who have taken lucrative jobs in the private sector. Remember Blairite James Purnell ? He "quit" the Brown Cabinet to become No.3 at the BBC. It was revealed this week that he had allegedly personally intervened to can a Newsnight investigation into....Keith Vaz.... last year Funny old world.
re: the Labour Party There is now a massive chasm between Labour's traditional, patriotic white working class English voter...and the smelly, dirty, unwashed Ban The Bomb CND a Its a lot cleaner than the People's Party right now Devoted utterly to the service of this great country.
Norman Tebbitt - joined the board of BT soon after selling it. Peter Walker - got a directorship with British Gas after flogging it. Sir Norman Fowler became a director of G4S after they were awarded contracts in the government prison privatisation program. Wee George Osborne's advisor Rupert Harrison landed a plum job with asset management company Black Rock after repeatedly meeting them while at the Treasury, and designing major changes to pensions which benefited the company. It's also good to remember the string of Tory scandals revealed by the press after your squeaky-clean John Major announced his"back to basics" campaign.
G4S - when my dad had a heart attack in Malta around 4 years ago, their heavies were the hospital security, and despite us as a family all being somewhat disobedient (had obvious concerns and were being denied visitation rights) then proceeded to challenge us to a fight in the main reception of a packed hospital in Valletta. Absolute scum.
In politics, a scandal lasts a week before another one takes over. All parties are guilty of it. Sadly they manifest how the good folk live it.
I've been saying this for years companies like G4S are evil.... Take Serco for example, they have a private military and have an AWE program which maintains nuclear weaponry. What the f*** does the bin collection people need to do with nuclear arms and a private army? Should not be allowed. I'm pretty sure they do a hell of a lot of lobbying and are corrupt.
Sir Paddy Ashdown .... why is he still reported? I may discuss with my lawyer taking him to Court over defamation of character? My Lawyer is a member of the family so it wouldn't cost me much and let's face it Mr Ashdown has a few assets to pay the award when I win http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3778989/Why-Paddy-Ashdown-clown-s-wrong-QUENTIN-LETTS.html Just an exert ... He most certainly can, and he proved so once again this week when he compared supporters of Brexit to members of the Nazi party. It was classic Ashdown. You might almost say, he threw a Paddy. When I voted for Brexit it had NOTHING to do with immigration!
Great hatchet job by Quentin. I see him most days and may even have shared a few ideas with him over the years. I will be sure to congratulate him if I bump into him today #PaddyPantsdown #EightSeats
