Wednesday, January 10, 2007
New disease discovered: ex-ministerialitis
I think there is a disease that is reaching epidemic proportions in some sections of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Ex-ministerialitis.
Symptoms
1) Inability to recognise that you were useless. In fact you believe that you were the best thing for British public administration since the advent of parliamentary sovereignty. It was all the media's fault that you got the sack.
2) Being under the impression that anyone gives monkey's what you say. As a minister the civil service and press couldn't get enough of what you had to say, sufferers fail to realise that on leaving office this stops. Some will act as if nothing has actually changed at all.
3) Entering cars by the rear doors and then threatening the imaginary driver with the sack when the car doesn't move.
4) Distain for the whips office. Before you became a minister you kissed their arses, when you were a minister you had the pleasure of seeing them excerising the black arts to get your laws through parliament and now they expect you to vote for stuff that the ****** who replaced you is putting before parliament. Get real you tell them before jetting off from Heathrow on a freebie "factfinding" trip.
5) Excessive media exposure. Often this will take the form of insulting your former colleages especially the ******* that sacked you. In tragic instances the victim will be under the impression that said exposure will be a route back to ministerial office.
6) Tarting yourself around the private sector in search of directorships. Having run a department of state going back to constituency work full time is unbearable. You need
to give the country the benefit of your experience and why not rake it in at the same time.
7) Coming up with inane policy ideas that are clearly bonkers. In severe cases they will be for policy areas which as a minister you had nothing to do with and written in green ink.
If you think that you have been suffering from symptoms like that get help as soon as possible. The names of possible sufferers can be left in the comments section. ¶ 10:02 pm
Symptoms
1) Inability to recognise that you were useless. In fact you believe that you were the best thing for British public administration since the advent of parliamentary sovereignty. It was all the media's fault that you got the sack.
2) Being under the impression that anyone gives monkey's what you say. As a minister the civil service and press couldn't get enough of what you had to say, sufferers fail to realise that on leaving office this stops. Some will act as if nothing has actually changed at all.
3) Entering cars by the rear doors and then threatening the imaginary driver with the sack when the car doesn't move.
4) Distain for the whips office. Before you became a minister you kissed their arses, when you were a minister you had the pleasure of seeing them excerising the black arts to get your laws through parliament and now they expect you to vote for stuff that the ****** who replaced you is putting before parliament. Get real you tell them before jetting off from Heathrow on a freebie "factfinding" trip.
5) Excessive media exposure. Often this will take the form of insulting your former colleages especially the ******* that sacked you. In tragic instances the victim will be under the impression that said exposure will be a route back to ministerial office.
6) Tarting yourself around the private sector in search of directorships. Having run a department of state going back to constituency work full time is unbearable. You need
to give the country the benefit of your experience and why not rake it in at the same time.
7) Coming up with inane policy ideas that are clearly bonkers. In severe cases they will be for policy areas which as a minister you had nothing to do with and written in green ink.
If you think that you have been suffering from symptoms like that get help as soon as possible. The names of possible sufferers can be left in the comments section. ¶ 10:02 pm
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Clare Short suffered from it. Then she left the party and she recovered. In the sense that it seems she has nothing to say or propose anymore. She just disappeared!
# posted by 
: 11:19 pm
: 11:19 pm
Ah! so it's a disease that affects both sexes.
Somehow I suspect that we will see her about in some capacity.
Somehow I suspect that we will see her about in some capacity.
Come on Sham you know as a loyalist that the PM decides who is a minister.
It is not for the like of us unaccountable bloggers to be deciding who governs the country.
Anyway I blame the index linked time serving civil service.
It is not for the like of us unaccountable bloggers to be deciding who governs the country.
Anyway I blame the index linked time serving civil service.
"Somehow I suspect that we will see her about in some capacity"
she has already re-appeared! She's on Question Time tonight.
I blame you for her appearance! :-)
"And soon to join the ranks of ex-Ministers, Joan Ryan and Tony McNulty!"
but they can join the ranks of always loyalist sacked ministers who can end up mentioned in Blair's final speech (as he mentioned Janet Anderson and co in his conference speech)
she has already re-appeared! She's on Question Time tonight.
I blame you for her appearance! :-)
"And soon to join the ranks of ex-Ministers, Joan Ryan and Tony McNulty!"
but they can join the ranks of always loyalist sacked ministers who can end up mentioned in Blair's final speech (as he mentioned Janet Anderson and co in his conference speech)
# posted by : 9:43 am
: 9:43 am
Ahaaa. Tony McNulty has just been bigged up by Iain Dale here in exchange it must be said for bigging up by McNulty. Now Dale is watching on aghast as his fellow hammer gets biffed by the constantly punch drunk "basher" David "5-to-1-for-leader" Davis. In fact I think Dale is holding "blodger" or should that be "election bodger" Davis' coat, having observed Tony Blair doing this for Georege Bush.
Generally speaking, yes, but in this case Dr Reid may well have the final say!
I imagine he'll be spitting blood at the thought of his lackeys misleading him!!!
At first I thought it was the civil servants to blame, but if this ACPO letter turns out to be true, that's another matter entirely.
I imagine he'll be spitting blood at the thought of his lackeys misleading him!!!
At first I thought it was the civil servants to blame, but if this ACPO letter turns out to be true, that's another matter entirely.
"I imagine he'll be spitting blood at the thought of his lackeys misleading him!!!"
should we start to worry for the physical safety of Mr McNulty and Mrs Ryan?
should we start to worry for the physical safety of Mr McNulty and Mrs Ryan?
# posted by : 11:47 am
: 11:47 am
she has already re-appeared! She's on Question Time tonight.
I blame you for her appearance! :-)
God didn't she look miserable. I take full responsibility for who appears on Question Time. Perhaps I shall have better luck in the future.
BTW it just doesn't feel right that Clare Short isn't in the Labour Party
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I blame you for her appearance! :-)
God didn't she look miserable. I take full responsibility for who appears on Question Time. Perhaps I shall have better luck in the future.
BTW it just doesn't feel right that Clare Short isn't in the Labour Party
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