“I’m bloody angry. It’s only anger is keeping me from falling into the sea!” That was Neil Kinnock today, expressing his distaste for…Whoa, that’s not right. He fell into the sea at Brighton in 1983, when he was doing a striding-purposefully-with-a-vision thing for the press cameras. No, that should be “It’s only anger is keeping me from falling into despair!” Forget the sea thing. Although once recalled in the , it’s hard to forget, right?
Kinnock has thrown his weight behind Labour MPs and against Jeremy Corbyn, who he says is very vain and not at all the kind of man you’d want leading the Labour Party. That should give Labour Party members something to think about. After all, Neil Kinnock was a fearless champion of the miners when they were beaten into the ground by Thatcher in the 1980s. And who could forget the winning modesty of Kinnock in 1992, when a few days before the general election, he got up on a podium and trumpeted “We’re aaaaalll riiiight! We’re alllll riiiight!” Stirring or what? And such a pity that a few days later he blew the election. But mercifully, being a dedicated socialist and champion of the common man and woman, he’s found a seat in the House of Lords, which helps him identify with the hardship that austerity has inflicted on so many ordinary people.
Rest assured that the good Lord’s intervention in the leadership struggle of the Labour Party will be decisive. He has urged people to join the Party, and I’ve no doubt people will respond to his urging. But will they then vote against Jeremy Corbyn, as the good Lord has urged? Not except they see the “Welsh windbag”, as Thatcher described him, as someone capable of talking sense. My own guess is that his intervention has probably added about 30,000 new supporters to Corbyn’s already swollen ranks. Nice one, Neil.
Welsh scumbag sounds better.
Kinnock? He was the boy who boycotted the queens speech in 1977 with a young Skinner & opposed membership of the EU. then as a failed Labour leader they took pity on him & gave him a job as an EU COMMISSIONER & a lord & he was “ALRIGHT!”.
For once Maggie was right X
Neil Kinnock….
The ‘floater’ that just won’t flush !
‘The House of Lords must go –not to be reformed, not to be replaced, not to be reborn in some life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished’.
(Baron Kinnock-to-be, November 19, 1979).
FITT FOR PURPOSE
From Llanfairpwllwyngllgogerychetc to Tokyo
He filled the role of a top-billed prole bloke-o
But when he did kneel
For the Elizabethan feel
It was to the sound of ‘Arise ! Lord Kinnockio’.
Yes, Mighty Perk …that’s about it …. the House of Lords is a sort of heavenly plane for ex -politicians who can’t believe they have died….
It’s hard to keep abreast of these things , Jude. I was just wondering perchance had they got around to giving Tony Blair a knighthood yet?…Just a random thought , you’ll understand . It really is a curiousity, mind, for someone claiming any kind of socialist roots to take up a perch in the Lords.it’s almost obscene , really.
Like some here I remember when Kinnock was leader and fighting the fight against the Tories and Thatcherism. I remember the coal miners strike. Kinnock wasn’t always a gobshite.
There is a powerful bubble that politicians fall into once elected, a kind of Versailles that obscures reality, pampers and slowly converts to whatever policy positions the wealthy currently subscribe to.
That’s why Harry Perkins will always be my favourite Labour leader, he kept himself grounded and determined to get compensation for his grandfather.