tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post8346293553629130452..comments2024-02-15T17:04:14.226+01:00Comments on Jane Is The One: it should have been himjanestheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-22369728780012960322011-01-21T11:39:15.138+01:002011-01-21T11:39:15.138+01:00Well - clearly he thinks it shouldn't have bee...Well - clearly he thinks it shouldn't have been him.<br /><br />I am no great fan of Alan Johnson's abilities, but I am angered at the thought that - yet again - someone's prospects in public life have been blighted by family matters that are outside their control.<br /><br />He shouldn't be judged by his wife's behavour - but knows that this would inevitably happen and that the existence of this scandal - not of his making - would weaken him.<br /><br />This is the real shame and disgrace. In this respect, we have regressed, rather than advanced as teh eyars have marched on. Everyone knwe about teh antics of Lady Dorothy - or the drink problems of Sarah Chrichill - but these unfortunate matetrs were not allowed to stand in the way of the careers of Macmillan and Churchill. And Churchill's father died of syphillis and his mother was a bye word for sexual laxity.<br /><br />Nowadays, not only the politician, but everyone connetced with them are expected to be replicas of Jesus and the Virgin Mary.<br /><br />It is about time this country grew up - abolished its dirty postcard mentality and allowed politicians to be human - with human families and friends.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-12722863696811865832011-01-05T12:51:59.899+01:002011-01-05T12:51:59.899+01:00A Johnson all over papers today - displaying his s...A Johnson all over papers today - displaying his stupendous lack of knowledge of economics (well, not necessary to be Chancellor) - and Labour's economic policy ( this is more important).<br /><br />Also pictured quaffing and hogging in The Savoy with ex PR aide.<br /><br />I am all in favour of hogging and quaffing. And The Savoy is a nice gaffe. We are not in an extreme bible-bashing US state after all - although at times, the media seems to think that we are. Or that everybody other than the Fourth Estate lives under such a regime. But that is another story...... inolving the usual amount of vomit/legal and illegal drugs etc etc ad nauseum est. <br /><br />But perhaps it is time for AJ to retire the childhood poverty/bare-feet at school riff that always seems to surface (next to loons and the Arctic Monkeys) in inteviews. Can he for starters, stop the journos peddling these sad old props? At least the much-maligned John Prescott (actually, I am a fan), had the courage to cut through the crap some time ago and say that, by the way, he was now middle class and ahd been for many years. Quite so. You don't live his lifestyle or that of any senior politician and keep on pretending that you live in a cardboard box and make regular 'of necessity' visits to the soup kitchen. Unless, of course, that you are the singing postie - a man on an errand and on a mission, so to speak...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-54454205258352298972010-12-29T16:50:31.064+01:002010-12-29T16:50:31.064+01:00AND SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD.AND SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-20327421980735578122010-12-29T14:23:13.749+01:002010-12-29T14:23:13.749+01:00I voted for AJ in the Deputy Leader election. If ...I voted for AJ in the Deputy Leader election. If he had won, he would have been in a good position to replace GB, but he lost to HH. She was the only option to replace GB in the run up to the election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-84624711343010067652010-12-27T13:11:02.916+01:002010-12-27T13:11:02.916+01:00No - I'm sorry , I can't stomach this.
Pol...No - I'm sorry , I can't stomach this.<br />Politics ( especially Labour poltics) is stuffed to the gills with 'lost Leaders' - ' the best Leader Labour never had' etc etc etc.<br />Such individuals are usually unpleasant and embittered individuals, assiduously cultivating popularity at the expense of the incubent. Sniping to whatever journalist emerges with an empty notebook is their stock in trade.<br /><br />So come on - lets now hear it for Denis Healey; John Smith; James Callaghan ( who did succeed,eventually, to disastrous effect) and Gordon Brown - see above comments on Sunny Jim. <br />Alan Johnson is but the latest in a long line of those who feel 'It couda been me'. And if the experience of Jim and Gordon is anything to go by - we must say that thank God, in the majority of cases, it wasn't!!<br /><br />AJ makes an effective 'Slick Willie'. And that is about it. If he has such doubts about Ed Miliband then, come on , Al, baby - resign and mount a challenge! But you won't will you? No. It is much nicer and easier to bask in the plaudits of the journos without ever being tested. After all, you have the precedents of Jim and Gordon to keep you warm.<br /><br />Much nicer talking about loon pants and Arctic Monkeys to whoever will listen, whilst dripping acid rain .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-89377972034016896972010-12-27T08:04:57.249+01:002010-12-27T08:04:57.249+01:00AJ the man who has been banging on that we do not ...AJ the man who has been banging on that we do not have enough rock salt in stock, when we did and do? No thanks.dreamingspirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00324207120279777521noreply@blogger.com