Ruth Kelly and the second law of robotics
Simon Hoggart on Ruth Kelly’s goodbye…
She began by saying: “Conference, I hope you will forgive me for departing from my text for a moment” – and the truly weird thing was that this sentence was written down, in the text. Under New Labour, spontaneity has to be planned in advance.
Nothing in her career became her like the leaving of it. She clank-clank-clanked from the stage, servo-motors clicking and whirring. The crowd clapped at her impressive mimicry of human emotions. What a weirdo. What a bunch of weirdos.
Posted on September 25th, 2008 at 8:27am under New Labour
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I’d have thought the second law would apply more to the R2D2-sized unit that is Hazel Blears (‘no leadership decision too stupid not to obey or defend unquestioningly’).
Except, of course, she produced those famous vowels, which we will miss. She was proud to be a “woyfe”, thanked “moy” husband for support. The country was going through difficult “toymes”.
This does remind me of why I’ve never liked Hoggart, for all his occasional moments of wit. He’s always been a very metropolitan kind of snob.
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