More time with the family
Ruth Kelly's announcement was disappointing today. "Spending more time with the family" sounds such a limp excuse. If that is indeed her true reason for stepping down, she could have given it some more colour, such as "the need to spend more time on homework than on House work" or "one just can't get the domestic staff these days."
At least Boris isn't boring. Three cheers for his attack on the Labour "neo-socialists"!
posted by Whispering Walls at 8:46 am
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Not much better than Belgium.
What a mess the world is in!
Neo-socialists? These people are no more socialist than I am. They have pretended they are all these years to keep themselves in power, but unfortunately they have now been found out.
I think he made some good points, but I get considerably annoyed about him [and you] using the word 'socialism' as though it was some kind of swear word, much as the word 'liberal' has connotations in the US.
What asinine claptrap - are you going to say next week that 'fairness' is evil, that 'liberte, egalite, fraternite' is anti-capitalist rhetoric ?
That we working-class people should doff our caps in obsequious obeisance of you middle-class 'masters of the universe' ?
Please don't hold your breath that we will be taking to the streets to demand the abolition of the NHS or the welfare state...
Methinks the problem is you are confusing 'socialism' with the sort of over-weening, bureaucratic, patrician, patronising, interfering, undemocratic nanny-state which the EU is becoming. I am not in favour of that. Neither is Tony Benn.
Food for thought...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7634641.stm
An alternative viewpoint. Not one I necessarily agree with, and not one I can claim, in a 'holier-than-thou' way to follow myself, as something of a non-believer. But..
One does have to ask whether John Senatamu, who is trying harder than the Archbishop of Canterbury to follow the spirit and letter of the New Testament, would be laying himself open to accusations that he is a 'neo-socialist' ?
Hi ED & KL - so much for these labels
Morning Anon - don't forget your sense of humour - we had neo-conservatives, now we have neo-socialists, next we'll be having palaeo-conservatives, palaeo-socialists, conservative socialists, social conservatives etc. As for the Archbishops, are they Christian socialists or Christian scientists? Whatever they are, by their own admission, they should be prayiong for the souls of hedge fund managers.
.. or at least for their wallets...Anyway WW, I thought you were no longer a hedge funder, but a long term long sighted sage water investor?
I'm a water hedge funder, KL
Yes, she is boring, isn't she? - Except in the little matter of her hair. I want to know how she grew it so quickly!
Yes WL - her hair looks a lot better, even though she doesn't have your Raffaele. Maybe her enthusiasm for standing down added a couple of inches to it.
She obviously jumped before she was pushed. She is as unremarkable as Margaret Beckett.
If she had really wanted to have spent quality time with her kids, she would have never gone into politics.
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