Tuesday, June 09, 2009
On Being Almost Completely Right
Oh well, it's over - for now. I was so close to being right I could taste it. Now the only hope for a national day of rejoicing is a Guido rumour that Purnell will stand. I had hoped that good old backbench treachery would, once again, ride to the nation's rescue. Instead, the PLP meeting consisted of little more than horde of bullied and blackmailed peons applauding Brown and banging desks like schoolboys. What celebrations, one wonders, would they have reserved for actually winning an election or even for doing just badly rather than catastrophically? And so we face the prospect of another year of national humiliation at the hands of this man. It's a good thing I don't take politics seriously, otherwise I'd be really angry.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
If you enjoy a bit of masochism you can torture yourself by imagining Labour under Brown actually winning the general election. Another five years...
ReplyDeleteAs John McCain said, Gaw, I sleep like a baby - I wake up every two hours screaming.
ReplyDeleteOn Sunday I saw Mandelson saying to Labour supporters that it took bravery to keep spending in a difficult economic climate and that's what Brown is doing. £175bn of debt being added and the PM is 'brave'. Like encouraging a maxed out shopaholic to get a new store card and then use a loan shark. Politics has moved on - Labour are stuck in a groove that means little to the electorate. Brwon introduces a 'National Council for Democratic Renewal' when we all want an election. How old does New Labour now look?
ReplyDeleteBryan, 'nearly right' is just as wrong as not right at all.
ReplyDeleteI was right because he didn't go he's still here. If I went to the bookies and said I was nearly right do you think they'd pay out?
And if you were moved to reply, could you advise me of the best Olympus digital voice recorder - you mentioned you had one (no, two) in the Taleb interview last year, and I need a new one but am bamboozled by the choice.
I said they'll not shift him. Cameron will find he has a sitting tennant.
ReplyDeleteI thought you wrote "Tennant" for a minute there, Ian, and that you were suggesting David Tennant aka Dr Who for the next Labour leader. Maybe that's why Tennant retired from the Who role, come to think of it. Celebrity culture lives on....
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ReplyDeleteBetter to have lived and been almost completely right, than never to have been anything at all.