Loudly claiming vindication from a review but ignoring the
uncomfortable bits – isn’t that pure Lib? Trumpet the elements that suit and
threaten to sue if anyone says you should abide by the parts that don’t. The
real irony is that it seems to be that Rennard’s double standards are
unacceptable to head honcho hypocrite Clegg! Tuition fees anyone?
However – while Rennard et al may have the fence well and
truly stuck up their collective butt, where liberals are used to having it –
the opposition fella isn’t even on the fence – he is in some field in a rocky
outcrop in far-far-away land.
COME ON Harriet. For heaven’s sake. STEP UP.
It’s the potential all time babe trio. Angela, Hilary and
Harriet. Never has the world needed sensible women more than it does now to
sort out the global testosterone fuelled shite that is the 21st
century.
Everyone knows (apart, it seems, from the high-ups in the
Labour party) that no one, NO ONE wants to elect The Bollocks Brothers,
Little Ed and No Ed. No matter how much the public hate the chinless, slimy,
posh prats who are selling us down the river – no matter how much they gag at
the prospect of seeing Knickers Clegg oozing around the Tory tall boys
again, they don’t like the Eds. Cameron’s
I-wish-someone-would-push-Farage-under-a-bus and how-soon-till-I-can-retire-and-go-round-making-global-speeches-like-Blair
effluvia won’t push the public into the arms of two C-list politicos.
COME ON Harriet.
Maybe you are worried that you are too old? No. Hillary is
considering it and Merkel is doing it – my lord is she.
Maybe you are worried about your association with Blair –
the as-yet-to-be-convicted war criminal and mass murderer? Don’t be. If Hillary
recovered from ‘misremembering’ her actions in a war zone and insulting Dolly
Parton you need not blush over a few hundred thousand deaths caused by the guy
you used to hobnob with. People forgive all sorts.
By the way – well done to the chap who attempted a Blair
citizen’s arrest in a restaurant last night.
What the Eds don’t understand (apart from their own deep
unlikeability) is the M&S effect.
M&S hasn’t worked it out – but those of us who used to
shop at M&S - say in the 80s - and now only call in for humous – know why it’s
gone down the pan. If they asked the customers – sorry ex-customers – instead
of employing a rotation of senior managers and consultants, we could tell them
in a sentence. M&S doesn’t DO M&S anymore.
We used to go to M&S and be happy to pay that bit extra
– in my case for a little Christmas frock for my daughter – underwear for me
etc. We would pay the extra because it was actually better quality than the
other high street stores. It was often actually made in England. The patterns
and appliqué on the dresses went all the way round not just on the front (cheap
yuk) and they were traditional styles and quality. The kids’ shoes were LEATHER
and things didn’t look like bits of rag after two washes.
Chasing the bottom feeders but not really letting up on price
has been fatal. What is to distinguish between M&S kids clothes and say
H&M? Apart from H&M is often cheaper and a bit more stylish. In
downgrading quality M&S lost its natural customers but didn’t grab the
cheap market either. It was a lose/lose situation. We want M&S to do better
in the same way we really want a proper opposition with a real prospect of
stopping the rot in this country – whether it’s the economic con or the racist
diversion or smashing of the NHS.
In the same way that M&S can never compete with the shit
shops but alienated its natural customers – the Labour party can’t ever be the
total bastards it would need to be to corral what we euphemistically refer to
as middle England. I think Harriet is the one person near the top of Labour who
knows this.
What a trio of World class babes they would make; Harriet,
Hillary and Angela!
Come on Harriet. The
hottest three degrees, the most kickin arse, handbag swinging, headmistresses
with smirks, kittens with whips you ever saw in your life.
Harriet – your country needs you.
click on orange Amanda Baker in right hand column for cartoon