Remember IDS's "turning up the volume" 2003 Conference Speech? In the last 24 hours both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown appear to have plagiarised it. Compare and contrast...TONY BLAIR: And people say to me it's a tough job. Not really. A tough life is the life led by the young severely disabled children and their parents who visited me in Parliament the other week.
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH: Over the last few days, many of you have said to me:"I bet your job's tough".No….Well, actually, yes, it is tough. But it's not as tough as seeing your children destroyed by drugs.Not as tough as having a child with special needs and seeing their school closed.
GORDON BROWN: I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place – where I will always strive to be – on people’s side.
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH: Everyone in Britain deserves a fair deal. We must be on their side.
12 comments:
Iain, You are quite hyper this evening. After advising Cameron to let Labour have its moment, are you taking it on yourself to put the boot in?
There never was anything wrong with IDS or MH or JM or WH that the BBC doing a 'Gordon Brown' on, could not have put right.
Nemoman: It is a far far better idear for the likes of me Iain dale Conservative backbenchers (in safe seats)and members of the party to assist in putting the boot in, as you say, then David Cameron.
David Cameron has to look like all things to all people, or as many people as possible. Other dont have to and its better they dont try.
Wow - saying your on the side of the people and having sympathy for people's tought lives. I bet no one other than IDS has ever said those things.
Iain - you've totally lost it today.
Iain - it's because there's nothing wrong with what they said, and everything to do with who was saying it and whether they had credibility or not. IDS didn't have any.
It's the medium, not the message, remember?
They talk like characters in a Dickens' novel.
But it is hardly an original expression is it?
IDS was just a link of the chain, not the Capstan
Plagiarism alert. See Peter Franklin in Comment is Free.
Peter Franklin's piece is here
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_franklin/2007/05/something_borrowed_something_b.html
don;t dare accuse me of plagiarism, mate. If you look back down the blog I wrote the first part of this at 11.26am here
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2007/05/gordons-unoriginal-slogan.html
Care to apologise?
The destruction of IDS by the media totally changed my view of the way England is run and who runs it.
Jacques Derrida: There are only so many sayables.
Come on Iain: These are trite and obvious statements for politicians and will have been heard on the porches of Athens and the plains of Ming dynasty China.
IDS for Tory leader! 10 More Years for Brown! (Er, or McDonnell).
It's not plagiarism Iain it's stating the obvious with a not very stunning pattern. teh opposite of great minds think alike. Who is this great genius Peter Franklin? Never heard of him!
There are only so many sayables.
For politicians these include the notion that they'll be looking out for the people they wish to represent. Doh! What a surprise.
The idea that IDS coined this or that Brown - a very well-read and bright man - is copying from a Tory half-sharp - is plain silly.
what is scary is that the labour party have 12 year olds maybe 20 year olds reading old speeches and rewording them to suit their masters/mistresses.Mandy has a lot to answer for. What is in it for these sad individuals. nothing. they will be dropped when theyve served their purpose. mugs
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