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or preening popinjay?
She’s thinking seriously about standing in the next election in that Moran woman’s Luton constituency.
Is it just me or does it seem to others that Ms Rantzen is less of a Martin Bell-like champion-of-the-people than an ageing ex-tv celeb who wants to get back into the limelight?
Sure, she was a kind of consumer "champion" in her "That’s Life" days, but since then?
A bit too much of an "I’m a celebrity, get me in the news headlines" kind of person than a true, principled righter of wrongs. It wouldn’t surprise me if she’s hired some Max Clifford type figure to promote and record her campaign for a future TV show.
The zaNuLabour / the Moran woman deserves a thrashing at the next election, but if Rantzen stands, it may give them their best chance of keeping the seat as it may split the Tory vote. Is that what she wants?
I do hope we’re not going to see a flood of pompous over-the-hill B-list TV celebs putting themselves forward as candidates at the next election.
Gloria Hunniford ? Anthea Turner ? Cilla Black? Fern Britain? Paul O’Grady? Oh no ! –
Richard Madeley We could turn Parliament into a reality TV show; they would all have to stay there for the whole of each session of Parliament..that way they couldn’t fiddle expenses..they would have to perform weekly tasks for their food allowance [eg world peace]…and we could vote them out whenever we wanted to.
I think the topic is about the wrong person and should be about Joanna Lumley, who I would describe now as a champion of the people and a huge credit to her sex, although I’ve always liked her but she has excelled herself of late.
A quite brilliant spokeswoman and campaigner. Esther lacks humour and charm in comparison.Joanna Lumley went over the top with her fawning praise of Gordon Brown; she didn’t need to.
Esther Rantzen, an MP?
The mind boggles.
The minute she starts pulling out oddly shaped suggestive vegetables on the hustings, run for cover.
But hey, that’s life !
Gambling Only Pays When You're Winning
Apologies for the digression but this thread reminded me of Cyril Fletcher, whose That’s Life cameos I quite liked. Did a bit of googling and found a link to him reciting some of his ‘odd odes’.
So for anyone remotely interested, Pin back your lug’oles!
Hi Steerforth,
Thanks for conjuring up the memory. I don’t suppose you’re old enough to recall hearing any of Stanley Holloway’s monologues – the boy and the lion springs to mind as well as …pick up thy musket, Sam.Good wishes, all the same.
K"To feed ruddy lions? Not meI!"
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Hi Steerforth,
Thanks for conjuring up the memory. I don’t suppose you’re old enough to recall hearing any of Stanley Holloway’s monologues – the boy and the lion springs to mind as well as …pick up thy musket, Sam.Good wishes, all the same.
KSlightly before my time so I don’t know the monologues Ken but I liked Stanley Holloway. I’ve a thing for old British films and watched him in Passport To Pimlico for the nth time only the other day. I’ve just had a quick shufty at his Wiki page and he had roles in about fifteen of my favourite old films.
Lived to 91, acting until he was 84 in a career spanning nearly 70 years
Dear, dear GC, you’ve smashed yet another fantasy I had about you!
No longer are you the twenty-something year old Savile Row suited, red Ferrari-driving, City slicker, Annabel’s Club-going yuppie.
You’re just ordinary aren’t you?
Oh well, yet another TRF disappointment.Best wishes, all the same.
KenI’d love to spend a day in your brain, Ken, you nutter.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Thanks GC, I didn’t know you cared. Seriously though, when I move down permanently in less than a month and the Autumn fixtures get under way, I’ll make a point of meeting up with you and the gang at a PtP or Huntington and the like; then you’ll soon realise that I’m just a shy, timid, boring, old …., as dprp quickly discovered at Aintree recently.
These days my brain is not fit for human consumption and was condemned to the asylum many moons ago. In PC terms, garbage in, garbage out…. I suffer in silence, though.
K
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