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Thursday 27 October 2022

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Labour tells MP Nadia Whittome to delete Rishi Sunak tweet


“Keir - I need to speak to you about media headlines”

“Anything wrong?”

“It’s about Nadia…”

“She’s good isn’t she? Another headline only recently.”

“Yes Keir, but have you seen what’s behind the headline?”

“Why – it’s not bad is it? Not another of those pervy stories?”

“No it’s just –read the story itself.”

“Well she has merely… good grief. I don’t mind our people being a little behind the curve, but there are limits. Great heavens - we must have limits. Can’t we have a test or something? Keep out anyone who is actually – you know – a bit short on grey matter?”

“That’s my point Keir. We need to control the dim ones. You know who they are and so do the media of course. Usually it doesn’t matter too much, but we need to steer clear of being labelled the thick party.”

“Well surely that’s what we are because disadvantaged voters need somewhere to go. I take your point though, we don’t actually want the label Nadia seems keen to give us. Good grief she’s dim enough for two. Where did we find her?”

“I don’t know. Could have been one of our trawler sessions among mouthy radicals, but I don’t know.”

“So if we cut to the chase - how many do we have who could be exposed as irretrievably dim?”

"Quite a few. Angela – ”

“Oh hell… On second thoughts I don’t want to know. This job is so exhausting.”

6 comments:

Sam Vega said...

The joke is on everyone involved here. Whittome's tweet was perfectly logical and indeed would have been thought innocuous in earlier times. She was merely drawing attention to the fact that Sunak is a multi-millionaire and most UK Asians aren't. Starmer realises this, but doesn't want to be drawn into yet another "please define an Asian" trap. So the poor sod has to pretend to be even dimmer than her, because he is terrified of stupid people pretending to be offended.

Who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind, and it's getting quite blowy around Labour HQ.

DiscoveredJoys said...

I smiled. Then I thought how the Conservatives appear to have lost all party discipline and become hell bent on settling scores.

I frowned.

A K Haart said...

Sam - I'd say Whittome's tweet was politically dim in that it placed Starmer and Labour in an easily foreseen difficulty. Of course, she could just possibly have intended that.

DJ - both seem to have problems with politically professional discipline. Although political life is supposedly their current profession, they don't seem to have a professional level of expertise.

Tammly said...

My thoughts exactly AK. The top professional politicians appear to me, to be not very good at politics.

James Higham said...

PM Rayner ... how does it roll off the lips? Hmmmmmm.

A K Haart said...

Tammly - yes, the bungling gives them away.

James - a genuinely grim prospect.