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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Political Defectation

The Prime Minister-appoint has been revealed as the "key player" behind the defection of an embittered throwaway from Daveybloke's front bench. Brown's spokesbeings announced the deal "just 24 hours before he is due to grasp the reins of Number 10", as the Guardian hath it. Any bad writer can mix metaphors, but it takes a journalist or two to mix a cliché.

The defector is Quentin Davies, whose voting record shows no interest in such trivia as Parliamentary accountability or Trident, but a strong attachment to principle in opposing gay rights and a genuine interest in supporting fox-hunting. He is now said - doubtless by someone who ought to know - to "favour social justice combined with an enterprise culture, which chimes with 'Brownism'," according to the Guardian's Michael White and Matthew Tempest. Apparently Daveybloke is firmly and publicly against combining social justice with an enterprise culture, although I must admit that the occasion of his saying so has, for the moment, slipped my mind.

Possibly with a little editorial help from Gordon, Davies also wrote a nasty letter to Daveybloke, accusing him of "replacing the party's 'sense of mission' with a 'PR-agenda'" in a manner that New Labour would never dream of doing. "Under your leadership the Conservative party appears to me to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything," Davies declaimed. Again, it seems rather difficult to understand why this should be a problem. The Conservative party has never collectively believed in anything, or stood for anything, except jobs for the boys and keeping the rabble in line. Neither has any other political party, unless it was an illegal one or had a membership in the dozens or less.

Davies also informed Daveybloke that "It is fair to say that you have so far made a shambles of your foreign policy, and that would be a great handicap to you - and, more seriously, to the country - if you ever came to power." I must confess I was unaware that Daveybloke even had a foreign policy, or if he did, that it diverged in any significant way from the New Labour one of Supporting Our Boys. "For the record," Davies said, "I have had no discussion concerning - nor will I seek - a government post in the upcoming reshuffle." Well gosh, I did wonder about that; how clever of him to have anticipated. I'm reassured now, however. Simply by being a Tory who has turned his coat to join New Labour, he makes the purity of his motives as plain as a pile of elephant dung on a midsummer morning.

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