A SACRIFICE WORTH MAKING

As we watch the Murdochs suffering acute amnesia under questioning, whilst their employees go to the wall, and Jeremy Hunt cling to his cabinet post, as his special advisor, Adam Smith, resigns, it makes one realise how fortunate we are to have  leaders who are willing to make such sacrifices.  It does however remind us rather of Harold Macmillan and “the night of the long knives”.  Macmillan sacked seven members of his cabinet in an attempt to save his own skin, provoking, from Jeremy Thorpe, the line………." greater love hath no man than this, that he should lay down his friends for his life."

THEY WALK AMONG US........

With the current fuss over Jeremy Hunt and his relationship with Murdoch, I thought I would look into his background……. and it all seemed  strangely  familiar.  So I did a ‘compare and contrast’ with a couple of other senior tories.

Jeremy Hunt is the eldest son of Admiral Sir Nicholas Hunt and Meriel  Eve Givan (Lady Hunt) .  He was educated at Charterhouse School, and Magdalen College, Oxford where he graduated with a First in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE).

David Cameron is the younger son of stockbroker the late Ian Donald Cameron and his wife Mary Fleur a retired Justice of the Peace and the daughter of Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree.

George Osborne is the eldest of four sons of Sir Peter Osborne,17th Baronet and Felicity Alexandra Loxton-Peacock, the daughter of artist Lady Clarisse Loxton Peacock. He was educated at Norland Place School in Holland Park and St Paul's School in Barnes and gained a 2.1 in Modern History at Magdalen College, University of Oxford.

OMG!  We are being governed by a set of clones. With all that silver ware in their mouths  it’s a wonder they can speak at all, let alone communicate with the common man.  Yes, gentlemen, we’re  all in ’it’ together.  It’s just that some of us have the ‘S’ and the ‘H’, as well!.