‘New settlement……..fairness……..hard working familes………Nye Bevan… I’ve only got one eye………er…..thats it folks’
Reaction in the hall from a cross section of Labour delegates;
‘Not since Martin Luther King……….(not since Martin Luther!)..Bessie Braddock……….Keir Hardie…..Clem Attlee….Lord Morrison of Lambeth……..Old Uncle Tom Cobbley………turned corner…….new beginning… tories routed…huge majority…..Labour’s century…….5th term……..Labour’s Reich………epoch of Labour…..where are you now Charles Clark…….Fiona McTaggart……cast out the traitors……golden calf………….Moses Brown………..John Brown’s body……….Harpers Ferry………..Ferry cross the Mersey…..the Ferryman…….Otis Ferry( SHURELY SHUM MISTAKE!)……..not since Pitt the younger………. Willie Gallagher……..Stafford Cripps…..Zinoviev letter……..groundnut scheme…….Milibandwagon derailed………….’the workers flag is deepest…er……la la la la la’…….Sarah Brown…….worrah stunna……
4 Comments
September 23, 2008 at 7:34 pm
In the United Kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man … is Prime Minister!
September 24, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I think that just about says it all Mr Bone.
I’m still trying to work out what this wonderful “new settlement is”.
September 26, 2008 at 11:18 pm
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September 27, 2008 at 9:32 am
Bessie Braddock? Bessie Braddock? The witch who drowned Capel Celyn, and then said in the house of Commons “Everyone deplores the fact that in the interests of progress, some people must suffer… but that is progress.”
Winston Churchill’s greatest moment was nothing to do with World War II, but was rather his retort to her allegation of his drunkenness:
MP Bessie Braddock: ‘Sir, you are drunk.’
Winston Churchill: ‘Madam, you are ugly. And I shall be sober in the morning.’