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I wouldn’t let Hunt judge a game of tiddlywinks

June 3rd, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

By
Suzanne Moore

PUBLISHED:

16:18 EST, 2 June 2012

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UPDATED:

16:18 EST, 2 June 2012

Lacking loyalty: Jeremy Hunt sacked one of his minions in order to save his own skin and it is obvious that he has misled Parliament over his relationship with the Murdochs

Everyone here thinks you have to go,’ were Jeremy Hunt’s spineless words to his intelligent and trusted adviser Adam Smith. Those of us who watched Hunt appear at the Leveson Inquiry last week feel much the same about him.

It is blindingly obvious without going into the whole quasi-judicial malarkey – which the Culture Secretary condescendingly explained to the judge – that he broke the spirit of the Ministerial Code set up by his own boss.

He misled Parliament over the nature of his relationships with the Murdochs. It appears he could not judge a tiddlywinks match impartially or without flurries of sycophantic texts from lobbyists. Worse, Hunt looks dishonourable, sacrificing a minion to keep his own job. Not a man you would want to be on the front line with, for at the first hint of trouble he would run away or hide shiftily behind a tree, as he did once to avoid journalists.

Loyalty, not to put too fine a point on it, is not one of Hunt’s stronger suits. He has now dropped Gideon Osborne in it too, as the Chancellor was apparently behind the move to replace the anti-Murdoch Vince Cable with Hunt.

Obviously running the economy is not a full-time job – as that’s going so well, Gideon has lots of time to strategise. His fingerprints are everywhere but it’s starting to look pretty bad. Our lack of growth means we want Gideon to quit meddling and show us the money. Instead he has made more turns than a rotisserie chicken.

Until now, much of Leveson, while of interest to journalists who are a narcissistic bunch, has not had a huge impact. But seeing politicians giving evidence has. That is partly because they are up against the context of deep recession. Plan A is not working and Plan B is seen as defeat.

What the Tories have going for them is that we are not part of the euro. Beyond that we have seen not only incompetence but where it springs from.

David Cameron looks like the frontman of a hollowed-out shell

George Osborne is flailing

David Cameron looks increasingly like he is the leader of a hollowed-out shell, while George Osborne is flailing

What Leveson has brought into focus is monstrous arrogance. Hunt and his cronies are not simply out-of-touch posh boys – they believe themselves, as the bankers did, to be masters of the universe and above basic codes of decency.

With Andy Coulson and Steve Hilton gone from Downing Street, the country is being run by men whose only intellectual conviction is to demolish the public sector, shore up the rich, move the poor out of sight and award contracts to their mates.

Hunt, once seen as possible Tory leader, is a busted flush, Osborne is flailing and David Cameron looks increasingly like the frontman of a hollowed-out shell. Only Michael Gove remains impressive, and made a good show at Leveson.

If any of them had any conviction they would practise what they preach – less government – for they are simply caretakers at a time of global meltdown. They can choose to make it better by taxing the extremely wealthy but they won’t, for their vision is to pile misery on to those whose lives they consider worthless anyway.

Alan Milburn’s report on social mobility told us what we already knew. Many graduates are spiralling downwards. The middle classes are ring-fencing the professions via unpaid internships and CVs filled with extracurricular activities most cannot afford. There is little moving up. This is the backdrop in which entitlement oozes out of Hunt. The man, like most of the Cabinet, is a millionaire anyway. He became a Tory MP, as one of his former employees wrote, simply because that was what was expected of him.This sense of no great ideological passion, beyond the drive to protect one’s assets and be in power, is now palpable.

Hunt may keep his job but he is tainted. So is Osborne. And as Coulson is charged with perjury, Cameron is also tainted after he arrogantly ignored the warnings given to him about his former press chief.

But for most of us the biggest taint remains that they will not make a U-turn on their economic policy. They will watch this country go into further recession and blame everyone else. To admit their mistakes takes moral courage.

Hunt clearly does not know the meaning of those words. Do the rest of them?

‘Side cleavage’ – just one more way to flaunt the same thing: your ribs

Side cleavage? What a dreadful phrase. It’s nonsensical too, in that cleave means to split. Surely the term is too embarrassingly reminiscent of ‘front bottom’ to be on trend? These peek-a-boob pictures of model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Gwyneth et al, reveal the sides of women’s breasts. Isn’t this just another way of sorting out those who dieted their bosom away or had them siliconed to defy gravity?

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley shows off her 'side cleavage'

Anne Hathaway shows off her side boob

Not a good look: ‘Side cleavage’ is the latest fashion trend, but it is a dreadful phrase

As ever, the fashion advice is simply mad: you must not show front cleavage as well as side cleavage. Er, no, because that would be called going topless. From what I see, the only accessory you really need to carry off this look is visible ribs.

We are steeled for most nature programmes to be red in tooth and claw, especially those presented by David Attenborough, the man who should be King. But Springwatch? I thought that would be a happy programme.

This week Runty the small nuthatch died on the same day as the weirdly transparent kingfisher chicks. Solemn words were said about the cycle of life – all true but too much reality for me. Facebook reports about Runty’s neglected state had reached me, but still I was not ready for such a deathfest.

Maybe if we love the Queen we could let her have a day off

If you love the Queen, let her have a day off

Amazingly, not everyone agreed with my republican sentiments last week. Don’t worry, I now see all the TV presenters are on the Jubilee drugs that make them emote senselessly for hours.

Still, I remain patriotic in that I think there is no place for deference in the land of the free. Britons shall never be slaves and all that.

‘Something as curious as the Monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it,’ said Prince Charles, who may or may not have inherited his mother’s sense of duty. Will we ever know?

If you love the Queen why not give her a day off? Let her do her thing and I hope you enjoy doing yours.

Tony Blair – in blue and in charge last week – IS apparently advising David Cameron, his heir. So are some of his old advisers! Blair is still worshipped for winning three Elections and we also wondered if he had any real convictions. Then we found he did have one – perpetual war. Perhaps nothing is as it seems, except Blair’s teeth, which are authentically British and bad. With the millions he gets for advising Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of Kazakhstan, surely he can afford to get them done?