Burnham wood
I can see why people might be angry about Culture Minister Andy Burnham’s pubescent masturbatory fantasy about David Davis and Shami Chakrabarti. What baffles me is why anyone should be surprised.
You see, what you have with Burnham’s stiff-socked innuendo is merely the latest expression of the quasi-homoerotic bitchy machismo on which New Labour was largely built. It’s embodied in the likes of preening, bouffanted tit and former health minister, Alan Milburn and his contempt for his female colleagues. There’s dossier-groping Alastair Campbell and his desire to ‘fuck‘ Andrew Gilligan.
It’s there in the effete fist fight over what the Prime Minister should wear. Were these people bullied at school? Couple a free-floating itch for control with an implicit immaturity towards sex and this is what you get - schoolboy jokes about political opponents in a magazine for the so-called ‘progressive community’.
I don’t doubt that saltier versions of Burnham’s smear are doing the rounds amongst the passive-aggressive drinks of water that constitute the New Labour high command. Burnham was just the one who chose to make a prick of himself over it in public by thinking the sniggering, back-slapping immaturity would go down well outside his emotionally-retarded political circle. Could he, if you’ll forgive me, make it stand up in court?
Posted on June 20th, 2008 at 11:40 am
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Top marks for the post title!
Will’s latest blog post… David Davis to answer my question?
Ithangyow!
It is not the first time that Burnham has claimed to know the content of other people’s phone calls.
Yet more proof why The Thick of It contains all you need to know about Westminster political life.
Rochenko’s latest blog post… Unavailable
I want to have your babies
Sunny’s latest blog post… Does Boris know his head from his arse?
You can have them. They’re a couple of little sods.
She is pretty hot tho.
Wrong thread, Aenea. The Shami appreciation is here.