Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Jenkins on Toynbee

This is a fine article by Simon Jenkins about our undemocratic way of choosing Prime Ministers. It contains the following: 'The thesis, much espoused by Guardian contributors, that Brown has totally changed and thus polluted their constancy of judgment is ludicrous. Their former presentation - indeed, eulogising - of him was plain wrong.' Quite. This is is plainly aimed at Polly Toynbee and others - remarkable in view of the fact that Jenkins is writing in The Guardian.

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  1. Well the miserable old misanthrope can't always be wrong, and it would be hard not to have noticed the ridiculous orgy of wishful thinking indulged in by Toynbee,Ashley and others.

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  2. What about the Daily Mail's long love-in with Brown? What is that about? (The editor's uncanny knack for backing the wrong horse perhaps)....

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  3. We Canadians always knew how this was going to turn out - we had the exact same thing happen with our finance minister, Paul Martin.

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