The Westminister Frottage
How’s this for a piece of triple whammy anonymity from The First Press’s political gossip, The Mole:
Jockeying for the Labour leadership election has already started among Gordon Brown’s Cabinet ministers while the Prime Minister is in Japan for the G8 summit. One Cabinet minister has told friends: “I’ve even put out feelers to the Campaign Group [the left-wingers led by John McDonnell]. You never know who you might need.”
So what you’ve got here is an anonymous journalist telling us that an anonymous cabinet minister is talking to anonymous ‘friends’. (Those damned ‘friends’ again.) That’s some going. I’m wondering how you top it.
No doubt state-funded gossip Nick Robinson, right now, is trying to shoehorn into tonight’s report a minister telling his friends that sources have revealed that they believe allies of the Prime Minister are saying this evening that those close to Gordon Brown can say categorically ministers are weaselly little shits indulging in mutual dry humping with political journalists. Or similar.
There are so many people in this Chinese Whispered-chain, I wouldn’t even bank on that quote being accurate. That game being what it is, I wouldn’t be surprised if that minister actually said, ‘Five evil shits put beetles in the plantain soup. You never go poo-poo at light speed.’
Didn’t most of us put this cloak and dagger bullshit behind us when we left puberty? Why am I reminded of a gaggle of sniggering schoolgirls passing ‘SUM1 FANCIES U LOL!’ notes in class?
Posted on July 8th, 2008 at 4:16pm under Culture, media and sport, UK politics
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Not quite on topic, but…
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Have you got a link for that, I missed it.
Here you go:
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