Good on yer Neil – keep up the prattle!
So, former Labour leader Lord Kinnock of Bedwellty, describes the conduct of the growing band of critics of Prime Minister Gordon Brown as “infantile”, and which looks set to tear the party apart, adding for good measure: “In politics amnesia is a killer disease“.
Bizarre then that the ginger-fringed ‘People’s Aristo’, keystone of the multi-million Euro Kinnock family industry, fails to remember his own infantile behaviour during his ill-fated tenure of the top Labour job back in the 1980s. Then, you will remember, he scored a number of spectacular own goals which led to his party’s sojourn in the political wilderness for nigh on two decades.
Who can forget his simian whooping and grunting at the close of one of the most embarrassing party conferences ever, or the excruciating eve-of-poll television broadcast, featuring a clifftop walk arm-in-arm with a grinning Glenys which nearly resulted in the ginger-whinger plunging to a grisly death on the rocks below.
Kinnocchio has also conveniently forgotten how he broke ranks with the party over the issue of devolution in 1979. When it was official Labour policy to support devolution for Wales, his Lordship led the campaign to oppose it thus condemning Wales to two more decades of poverty and the crippling effects of Thatcherite economic policy. But then, in politics, amnesia, we are told, is a killer disease – for which one presumes, by definition, there is no cure.
The puissant and noble lord goes on to talk, with that inimitable verbose windbaggery, of the “awful cost …inflicted on the Labour Party and the British people” by Labour’s internal battles. The British people were mercifully spared rule by the acquisitive and ambitious Kinnock dynasty, but has had, nevertheless, to suffer a not too dissimilar fate for the last decade.
In the opinion of many in Wales, Kinnock, more than any other ‘Welsh’ politician in the last three decades has managed to expose our nation to ridicule and opprobrium. Remember The Sun’s 1992 pre-election headline: ‘IF KINNOCK WINS TODAY, WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE BRITAIN PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS’? Remember Tony Blair’s “F***ing Welsh” outburst? Just who, one wonders, did Tone really have in mind?
What will do far more damage to the already free-falling Labour movement than a bit of internal jostling is the interference of this grinning buffoon. Incidentally, Kinnock’s recent endorsement of ‘his great friend’ Democratic Vice-Presidential hopeful Joe Biden ought surely to have set the alarm bells jangling in the Obama camp.
So c’mon on Neil baby! Keep on sockin’ it to ‘em! YEEEEHAWRRIGHT!
Byline: Cuneglas
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I campaigned for a Yes vote in 1979 and will never forgive or forget His Lordship’s treachery of his class, people and nation. He, along with Leo Absent and the rest of the “Gang of Six”, used venemous anti-Welsh bigotry, which left us naked under a Thatcherite sky for 18 years, just to satisfy his political ambition. He also worked against the Euro referendum in 1974 and the House of Lords – but look at him now, the unprincipled, greedy carpet-bagger!
Good for Cambriapolitico – keep attacking the bastards! You’re the only independent political voice in Wales. Dal ati!
That sweet day when Kinnock lost !
Sorry but my enemies enemy is my friend . I still have a soft spot for John Major . “Well alright! Well alright!” – what an idiot .
THE Kinnock family have made a fortune from the European gravy train.
Former Labour leader Neil, 67, was an EU Commissioner until 2004 and now gets a £63,900-a-year pension.
He also had a £270,000 payout.
MEP wife Glenys, 64, gets a £57,000 salary plus about £100,000 a year in expenses.
She steps down this summer.
Daughter Rachel, 33, was her researcher. And son Stephen, 35, spent eight years working for the British Council in Brussels.