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Those Tories make me laugh, with their Young Blood. Do people have short memories, or what? How many unknown quantities do they need to elect as leader before they give it up as a bad job?
Wasn't John Major meant to be a breath of fresh air, the Future of the Party, which is why they chose him over Douglas Hurd and Heselslime? Major was still just 47 when he took over from Thatch, which in those days was young in Tory terms. Anyone under 50 seems young to most Tory members. And William Hague? He may be bald as a gibbon's arse, but he sure was a youngster when they brought him in. He was born in 1961, which makes him only 5 years older than Cameron even now, and by my calculations just 36 when he became leader, before they threw him to the hunting dogs. He's still young enough to make a convincing comeback before the next election.
The Little Old Ladies* of the Tory party have a habit of choosing the untried and unknown, the Nice Young Man, because it substitutes for not knowing anything about the real world, or politics, or the economy, beyond their savings accounts and Marks and Spencer grocery bills.
I wonder if you can get odds anywhere on William Hague as Next Tory Prime Minister?
*Unfair characterisations are my stock-in-trade
Wasn't John Major meant to be a breath of fresh air, the Future of the Party, which is why they chose him over Douglas Hurd and Heselslime? Major was still just 47 when he took over from Thatch, which in those days was young in Tory terms. Anyone under 50 seems young to most Tory members. And William Hague? He may be bald as a gibbon's arse, but he sure was a youngster when they brought him in. He was born in 1961, which makes him only 5 years older than Cameron even now, and by my calculations just 36 when he became leader, before they threw him to the hunting dogs. He's still young enough to make a convincing comeback before the next election.
The Little Old Ladies* of the Tory party have a habit of choosing the untried and unknown, the Nice Young Man, because it substitutes for not knowing anything about the real world, or politics, or the economy, beyond their savings accounts and Marks and Spencer grocery bills.
I wonder if you can get odds anywhere on William Hague as Next Tory Prime Minister?
*Unfair characterisations are my stock-in-trade
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005
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