Hat-tip: Backbencher
The BBC kindly gives the award some coverage, but despite a couple of emails, no comment, so far, from the nominees. Marina? Ephraim? Now we all know they read this blog, why no reply?Hundreds of votes continue to flood into our servers, a surprisingly large number originating from journalists at the Mail and the Guardian. Peer group recognition, that must be particularly satisfying. With less than 24 hours to go our chart shows the relative standing of the nominees. Voting buttons below…
When The Sun was looking for someone right-wing and reactionary enough to replace Littlejohn who came into Rebekah Wade’s mind? Why disgraced former minister David Blunkett of course, his “forthright and outspoken views on life and politics” will be aired in a weekly column starting tomorrow.
A socialist resident of Belgravia, Blunkett made £91,000 on top of his parliamentary salary last year.
Guido has been looking for an excuse to use this picture of a worse-for-wear Blunkett making a grab for a dog.
Incidentally, Rebekah Wade’s so butch husband can dance!
Hat-tip : Bloggerheads
A 39-year-old, who is openly gay, telegenic and an elite university graduate, has become leader of the Parti Québécois, the main Quebec sovereigntist party in Canada.
His previous cocaine use caused a scandal, leading to his resignation as a cabinet minister. But when his rivals tried to use it against him as he challenged for the leadership of the party, it backfired and made him popular with younger voters. He is the first openly gay leader of a North American major political party and is leading a revival of the PQ’s fortunes. He went to Harvard, not Oxford and is no family man, but there is a lesson there somewhere….
Andre Boisclair rolled over his rivals last week, his sexuality never becoming an issue in the leadership campaign. Instead his past cocaine use dominated the race even though Boisclair refused to discuss how often he did the drug when he was a cabinet minister or who supplied it to him.
Shortly before his cocaine use became front-page news, he was confronted over his wild lifestyle while in government. Muttering a few now-familiar lines about youthful indiscretions, Boisclair blushed and just kept quiet. It worked.
