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He is just a typical turner-upper at the House of Lords getting paid to bend laws and support the interest group that are paying him to do so.
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As Churchill once said to Lady Astor;
"We’ve already established you are a whore, now all we’re quibbling about is the price",
No Reet Hard, that was George Bernard Shaw and some woman at a dinner party, after she agreed she’d have sex for £1million.
Lady Astor, I believe said to Churchill that he was drunk. He replied that in the morning he’d be sober, but she’d still be ugly or whatever.
Gerald
No Reet Hard, that was George Bernard Shaw and some woman at a dinner party, after she agreed she’d have sex for £1million.
Lady Astor, I believe said to Churchill that he was drunk. He replied that in the morning he’d be sober, but she’d still be ugly or whatever.
Gerald
It was the MP Bessie Braddock (Think female russian shot-putter)
I first met Bernard Donoghue, as he was then, in the late 1960s when he was a lecturer in the Government Department of the London School of Economics and I was one of his students. He was a lively and interesting lecturer and had just co-authored a book about Labour politicians with Bill Rogers.
After that, like many Labour people, he found the lure of personal wealth irresistable, and with him it culminated in getting into bed (metaphorically speaking) with the crook Robert Maxwell. Since then he has continued on the same tack and as a result now has no reputation left worth a penny.
But he is no worse than many other Labour people, of whom the Home Secretary is the latest sow to have her snout in the public trough, even if it has been "within the rules".
The Tories are no better, but to someone whose relation was actually among those at the meeting in 1900 which founded the Labour Party as the Labour Representation Committee, one doesn’t expect any better from them. But the sight of those in theory trying to make life a little better for the ordinary man and woman enriching themselves dubiously turns my guts.
Incidentally, Donoughue may for all I know offer economic advice, but he is not an economist. He’s just a chap whose influence flows from being yet another fly around the dung heap that is New Labour – a peddler of pull.
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