Once Milburned twice shy
More faceless ’sources’ keep the Miliband bandwagon rolling:
If it comes to a contest, putting Alan Milburn forward as a proposed Chancellor would show everyone just how serious about rescuing the Labour Party David is.
Which would be ‘not very’, Milburn being a very poor joke of a politician from his smirk to his ridiculous bouffant haircut. From his contempt for his female colleagues to his commitment to his party and his country that saw him resign from the cabinet to flog MRI scanners for the private sector and flog junk for Pepsi Cola.
He supposedly resigned from the cabinet to ’spend more time with his family’. I take it, if this Miliband stuff is true, they’re now either sick of him or he is of them and is willing to put them back under the kind of pressure that last time was said to have threatened his relationship with his partner.
I’ve expressed surprise before that Milburn isn’t treated more widely as the lightweight self-preening tit that he is. I’m even more surprised that serious thinkers who I respect think Milburn is the man to turn New Labour around. I suppose he’s something of political geek’s in-joke, more’s the pity.
His attempt to run New Labour’s 2005 general election campaign was a study in political comedy that must have had Armando Iannucci boiling in jealous rage. If only Milburn was a strutting empty suit from The Thick Of It.
Posted on August 6th, 2008 at 11:55am under New Labour
| Related posts... • Burnham wood • On the money • Gordon Brown: pretty words and flowers, poetry and threats |
• Permalink • Trackback • Subscribe |
|
|
|
• 7 Comments |
I’m not buying the smirk and haircut digs but I am buying the rest.
Who for you would be a good choice?
Daniel Hoffmann-Gill’s latest blog post… The Asshat on the Front Row
Alvin Hall.
Good to see we’re not just whinging but offering solutins as well!
Daniel Hoffmann-Gill’s latest blog post… The Asshat on the Front Row
It’s funny how people like David Aaronovitch can complain about “nameless sources” and “friends” who are rubbishing Milliband, while “nameless sources” continue to try to get a Milliband bandwaggon started.
You really don’t like him, do you.
Paul Linford’s latest blog post… A story with a happy ending
Sorry, Paul, I know you see some hope in him but to me he’s symbolic of everything that’s wrong with New Labour – the strutting master-of-the-universe arrogance, the laughable machismo, the free marketeering, the lack of policies beyond Thatcherism 2.0…
Well, I don’t deny the guy has a bit of an ego, for sure, but he’s scarcely unique at Westminster in that regard.