Wednesday 25 July 2012

Sharp Intakes

There are some very interesting and impressive characters in Labour's 2010 intake. The boys in their dads' suits decided not to be associated with that year's result, which was in reality much better than had been expected, or at any rate much better than had been predicted by the official media.

After all, come 2015, those boys will still only be 13 or something. But by sitting out a hard year, they left the way open for highly capable people who have not the slightest intention of doing the same thing for them in three years' time.

In 2015, the other lot's boys in their dads' suits (who, contrary to what is generally asserted by the old drinking mates who have so recently emerged with them from Oxbridge, dominate the new intake of Conservatives) will definitely not want to be associated with a defeat which really is going to be as bad as they could possibly fear.

Again, leaving the way open. The Opposition benches in the next Parliament may well prove to be as interesting and impressive as the Government ones. Dare we hope for grown-up politics before too long?

1 comment:

  1. The most obvious boy in his dad's suit is I am told a couple of months older than you making him the year ahead of you at school. No-one would ever guess.

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