December 2008
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Michael Burleigh
Heart Beat Robot Sets Out Stall
Wednesday 30th July 2008
A robot, described as looking like the progeny of a monkey and an Imac, has made a bid to replace Gordon Brown while the latter is recovering from the drug of power in Southwold. Feeling, for this robot is sensate, that Brown is too frazzled to continue as Labour leader, Mr Heart Beat has used the Guardian as his pitch to lead the Labour party in the near future. He's young and he's raring to go. He's also so sensitive to Mr Brown's feelings that he didn't actually mention the PM in his rousing appeal to freshen up the party. Go Robo go!
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Recusant
July 30th, 2008
4:07 PM
4:07 PM
Oh please let it work for him, so that he can draw deep of the poisoned cup. If only to notch Ed Ball's paranoia levels up a peg or two.
They're finished. They know they're finished, but they can't believe that, instead of getting what they have believed is theirs by right, they are actually going to be the Portillo's of the Labour Party and see the chance of being the next Labour PM pass to someone who isn't even an MP yet.
But there won't be a challenge. Why would any MP who knows he would lose his seat now do so for the sake of minimising the potential damage to the greater Party in 22 months time? And that applies to too many of them to enable a proper challenge.
mburleigh
July 31st, 2008
8:07 AM
8:07 AM
That's it Recusant. This is largely about Labour MPs calculating how much longer they can draw on public money. Many will stick with Brown so this farce continues into early 2010 when there will probably be a Conservative landslide. Others will be regarding Miliband (or whoever) in terms of damage limitation. Fewer comrades will lose their seats in an election in spring 2009. Anyone who thinks that can be postponed does not know the British public or press. Who, we should be asking, will employ these low grade individuals, most of whom have no experience of anything outside politics since the NUS or some slightly less depressing public sector union? On a separate issue, I was wondering how someone who got 3 Bs and a D at A Level managed to get into Oxford? But that is not the main question of the hour. Camilla Cavendish has a very strong piece in the Times about how these peoples' squalid ambitions have no connection with the problems of the classes they are supposed to represent.
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