Polly: “Labour Weren’t Very Good at Blowing Their Own Trumpet”
There’s an hilarious report of Polly Toynbee’s appearance at the Edinburgh Book Show over atTotal Politics. Though she pines “nostalgically for the good old days of Blair and Brown”, apparently the last government were only worthy of a six out of ten in her view. She apparently had some hard hitting criticisms of the New Labour machine. Not the debt, deficit, moral bankruptcy or rank corruption that the project racked up, rather their lack of spinning skills:
“Labour weren’t very good at blowing their own trumpet.”
UPDATE: Polly’s declaration that “left-wing people are more intelligent, and just generally better people” has caused some splutters too…
Cameron and the EU – Charles Crawford
Luke 6:41 – Dan Han
I Am Pro-Choice – Nadine Dorries
A Libertarians Just Corporate Shills? – Adam Smith Institute
Red Ed Official – Paul Waugh
Labour Broke - HuffPoUK
Scotland Has Been Spoilt for Too Long – John McTernan
Labour Spent £38,636 on African Drumming Lessons - Mail
Leveson Delay “Until 2015″ - Garry Gibbon
Broken Kingdom – ConservativeHome
Petition Against Pilgrims – TPA
Spin is Dead – Peter Watt
A Rehash of Rehashed Story – Toby Young
Labour AM’s Son Arrested for Rioting - Mail
Class is Back – Polly Toynbee
Scotland “to Become Third World Country” - Telegraph
Tory Councillor’s Drunken Facebook - Mail
Phillip Mark McGough writes:
“Glossed from head to toe in leather, a battleship-sized Harley-Davidson between his thighs (and with a real Soviet-era battleship as his backdrop), Vladimir Putin rides into a bikers’ festival at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk to kick-start his United Russia Party’s campaign for December’s elections to the Duma. Say what you like about Putin, it beats Ed Miliband puzzling his way through “The Red Flag” or David Cameron annoying a waitress in Tuscany.”
The pressing matter now for Cameron and Blair is making sure Gaddafi is not taken alive they don’t want him talking that’s for sure.
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