David Blunkett continues to be a very naughty boy. He was overhead at the US Embassy Christmas Party last week opining: “If he wants to win, Gordon has got to get rid of the people around him. People like Douglas Alexander and Alistair Darling otherwise we will be dead in the water”. After his experience of tittle-tattling with his biographer Stephen Pollard about his Cabinet colleagues you’d have thought Blunkett might be a little bit more careful who he slags off. Apparently not.
* From my Independent on Sunday diary today
11 comments:
"he was overhead at the US Embassy Christmas Party"
What, on a trapeze? A highwire? Suspended from the ceiling on a bungee cord? Dressed up like a fairy on top of the tree?
Iain,
The times I have said something embarrassing can be counted on several hands and feet! I usually look round and see the look of absolute shock horror on the assembled faces.
Unfortunately, DB can't do that!
Good story, but now that he has no chance of being anywhere near power, I guess he is no longer that worried about learning the lessons of the Stephen Pollard.
And whilst I detest Blunkett and his right-wing authoritarian approach to law & order, I detest Stephen Pollard ten times more. So I even I have some sympathy for him being stitched up by that intellectual pygmy.
What on earth was a lowlife slimeball like David Blunkett doing getting invited to a party at the US Embassy. He is of absolutely no importance.
Well Blunkett told the truth about Alexander at least. did you hear jim on Any Questions saying he was to go abroad on holiday this year because he was called back from Mull over the terrorist crisis. i remember that day when Reid was exuding gravitas Alexander looked spooked. The next day he looked like he'd been crying all night.
It's probably because they are all Scottish; I know it says Hatfield and the North but we're getting a bit tired of having our local interests settled by people from places quite so far away, particularly when we don't get to fix their local environments.
What is he allowed at such an event, and why is he even having any attention paid to him? The idea that someone like him will spout off against others at such a forum shows the level of shamelessness and gormlessness he is at.
I agree with Verity.
It's pretty rich for Blunkett to have a go at someone else for promoting nonentities - this is the politician who persuaded Blair to make Estelle Morris (a woman who failed her A-Levels, and who can't speak gramatically) Education Secretary, and who requested Beverley Hughes (a mousily officious and humourless waste of DNA) as his Minister of State.
Alexander will be alright if/when he learns to stop speaking like a lawyer, but Brown should be wary of surrounding himself with too many Scots. He can avoid that danger by promoting the likes of Yvette Cooper, Michael Wills (an articulate critic of the damage the CAP is doing to the third world), Hillary Benn (who would look much more credible as Foreign Secretary than Beckett), and John Denham.
I can just about imagine Alistair Darling as Chancellor or Home Secretary, but Des Browne already looks severely overpromoted as Defence Secretary (he is, alongside Geoff Hoon, one of the weakest Defence Secretaries since 1945)
Hatfiedl Girl is right of course it's because they are Scottish. Bete to be a blind arse that be Scottish eh, but good enough to die in Iraq. So so tired of your anti Scottish racist comments on this site, I do hope that when the next big war comes I am sure your new English citizens of African, Islamic and Eastern European background will be right there with you my English cousins.
Anonymous 6.17. Scotland has its own Parliament that determines policies specific to Scotland; much of what is decided in the UK Parliament is specific to England but is voted through on the strength of Scottish-based members of parliament.
Many think that now there is self-determination on local issues (most of which are of outstanding importance to quality of life, such as care for the elderly, access to certain health provisions under the NHS, free tertiary level education etc., etc.) in Scotland, then members of the UK Parliament elected from Scottish constituencies should lay off putting their oar into English arrangements.
This is not racism; neither is your offensive reference to disability, though that is cheap.
And an awful lot of us tried very hard to stop any soldiers from the UK going to Iraq or Afghanistan. Let us hope there will never be a war so necessary that we must stand together again.
And if there were, all the UK would stand together, as it always has.
Blunkett does have a point, for once, how else do we explain the continuing disaster that is Paymaster General 'Red" Dawn Primarolo?
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