lordsummerisle
Well-Known Member
There are practically none. Watched Ed Balls at Worcester Bosch yesterday, followed by Douglas Alexander flap about on QT; and lamented how devoid of ideas and passion the 'new' Labour party is.
Did Benn really need 'help' like this? By God, he'd have demanded to have been heard:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-urged-ask-questions-Tory-Lord-Heseltine.html
Or would he have stood for crap like this?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/38...uestion-Time-audience-to-attack-UKIP-panelist
Love him, or loath him - as Bob Crow - he had an opinion and articulated it frankly, honestly and respectfully (okay, delete the 'respect' but for Crow). The political world's a significantly worse place for Benn's passing; that's certainly the case
Just can't think of many politicians around that I could say that i respect anymore.
Dennis Skinner? Always had a soft spot for Ken clarke despite him being a Tory.
Really don't think that any of the new breed of politicians has any sort of principle that guides them, could all easily represent any of the mainstream parties and barely miss a beat.
It's a career in and of itself now, not a vocation, and that's the real shame of it.
Just a homogenised, upper-middle, political class.