“There will be about as many people prepared to admit that they ever voted Labour as there were prepared to admit they collaborated with the Germans. Everyone was in the resistance, honest.”
And then there is this piece of genius from Harry Hutton.
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Back inside the Westminster Bubble are you, JP? It’s just too damned interesting, isn’t it?
I agree that there’s more to life that Gordon Brown twisting in the breeze, but the more we can make it clear what kind of bastard he is, now, and what kind of cowards and thieves the Labourites are for letting him hang around, the better.
As for this particular notion, I hope it’s true, but fear that there is an incorrigible Labour core vote who care only for their dole money, of whatever kind, and to hell with the future of the country.
I’m hearing a lot of support from the Labourites I am personally acqainted with about how they now support Mr NoneOfTheAbove for Prime Minister. For me, the numbers in the next election that will really matter will be the turnout, by which I mean non-turnout.
Brian, indeed, as Glenn would say!
Question: I haven’t read a lot of comment about this whole business in the US blogs. I think Instapundit may have mentioned it, but that is more or less it. Or maybe the US bloggers have sussed that Brown is finished anyway. I certainly do not sense any love.
I think the problem is there are just too many people for them to keep track of, if you’ve not been following it at all until now. Damian McThis, Derek That, Tom Something, Charlie Someone Else, who are these damn people? – oh to hell with it.
That, after all, is usually my reaction to USA scandals, until they become impossible to ignore.
I only really knew who Damian McBride was when Guido started posting pictures of him in the cross-hairs.
I’ve tried, sometimes anyway, to write about all this stuff with an eye to a reader (i.e. an American or other non-Brit Anglo) who has no idea of the details, but it is hard, when you know so much more yourself.
Perhaps I need a bit more journalism training.
This is a total aside from the point of Jonathan’s posting (apologies), but I’m concerned.
Today, April 15 2009 at 12:36pm, I posted a
comment elsewhere on Samizdata using the phrase “credulous collaborators”.
This was without seeing Johnathan’s posting, which must have been made a bit before the first comment by Brian Micklethwait, at 11:52am. My comment took a few tens of minutes to compose, interrupted by a visit from an oven maintenance man.
Now, Johnathan’s posting contained the quoted word “collaborated”. Also, the title of the linked piece (posted on Monday 13th April) by Blognor Regis had the title “Credulous”. I am pretty sure that I have never before visited that blog (and certainly not since Sunday); nor have I recently visited the referenced Pub Philosopher (some weeks at least), though I used to have it bookmarked (I think years ago).
My concern is that this coincidence (quite a coincidence, and yes I am confident about not eyeballing any of the above references) is somewhat supportive of the concept of thought transference. Those words were just hanging there (or zooming about) in the ether and my brain tuned in and received them.
Has anyone seen or heard these two words used together or nearby recently, elsewhere than referenced above, that might have inspired me (and perhaps referenced or possibly inspired Blognor Regis too)?
[Note. I’ve done a quick search on Google and Altavista, which threw up nothing useful in the first few pages, as far as my usage is concerned.]
Any help would be appreciated; otherwise I’m stuck with balancing the existence of thought transference with low probability coincidence: nasty.
Best regards
In response to Johnathan’s post, as an American I think Brian has it about right. From all the way over here, once you get below the level of Gordon Brown (and maybe Jacqui Smith) most of us don’t know who any of these people are. Make no mistake, though: I have been reading (and enjoying) all of these postings, even though I haven’t had anything to contribute to the discussion. It’s fun to see any prominent politician twisting in the breeze, even more so when he’s of the leftist sort, and the (vicarious) pleasure is greatly enhanced by the knowledge that the source of all this schadenfreude is a libertarian blogger. If only we had a Guido Fawkes over here!
Incidentally, although I am not a close reader of U.S. newspapers (other than the Wall Street Journal), I am unaware that any of this “Smeargate” stuff (isn’t that your name for it?) has been covered in the mainstream media here. Certainly it’s not being widely reported. So my only source of knowledge about what is transpiring is this site (and the links you provide). Please keep it up!
Forbes take:
The only other mention in the US MSM per Google News is by Bloomberg.
Nah. Then you’d just be waiting around for the press release.
Nigel Sedgwick, I shouldn’t read too much into it if I were you.
JP, thanks for the honour.
Or maybe the US bloggers have sussed that Brown is finished anyway. I certainly do not sense any love.
What you’re not sensing is US bloggers giving a toss one way or the other. If the Brits want to have a wanker as PM, that’s their business- won’t make any difference to us.
Asommer, that is where you are wrong. If you want a decent ally in the UK, which given the way the world is going, is not an academic issue, then it is as well that the UK prime minister is a decent, intelligent person, and not a wanker.