I'm going to come back on some of the comments on the original Kill the Poor post at some point - probably Saturday night, sad person that I am - but 90% of my attention is dedicated to watching the boss on QT, so can't do anything do intellectually strenuous at the moment. (Very good on global food price rises I thought. And no, he won't be reading this...)
In the meantime, Alice Miles has an interesting take on Cameron's comments (scroll down a few paras past all the stuff about bishops). Actually, if you want to know what I think you might as well just read what I said in yesterday's debate.
Question Time just finished now and that Andrew Neil programme has started. (Really upping the intellectual stakes this week - expert political commentary from the Cheeky Girls). Can I just say - because absolutely no-one else seems to be saying it - Gordon did not 'liken himself to Heathcliff'! It was a joke. A joke!
In the same New Statesman interview Gordon says he likes reading Ian Rankin novels. I've only read one. I bought it at an airport, only to discover it was about the DFID PPS commiting suicide by throwing himself off Edinburgh Castle. (Or was it murder?) Cheery stuff, and obviously a perfect choice of holiday reading for me.
Hold on Kerry. Are you agreeing with a woman that rails against Cameron's stance because "it doesn't include, it excludes"?
ReplyDeleteYou haven't thought this through have you? ;-)
Alice Miles wrote: "How dare this man tell that woman she doesn't deserve that help? Do not tell me that is not what Mr Cameron meant."
ReplyDeleteI stopped reading at that point. She puts words in Cameron's mouth and then immediately decries anyone pointing it out. Last time I heard that sort of debate was in the playground.