Hattersley: What a Twat!

I would have liked to come up with a more thoughtful title... but frankly I have to go with my mind. I meant to deal with this yesterday when it cropped up but sadly work intervened. They’ve let Hattersley out of the fecking cupboard again in the Guardian.

Same old Roy, same old class warfare bollocks. His basic tone today is that David Cameron is too posh to care about you ordinary folk… this is a bit rich I think coming from someone sat in the House of Lords, Cameron might descend from aristocracy but he has neither title nor royal patronage. Shouldn’t those be things that Hattersley opposes?

Well like most of the loony left they generally oppose these things as far as the electorate having them but are happy to take them themselves, see Diane Abbott and private education for a classic example.

“My mother always wore a hat. For years my father was bullied into cleaning the car each weekend, and regularly mowing the grass (front and back) and sweeping the drive.”

Sounds like a real charm doesn’t she?

“After he died, my mother did the jobs herself for as long as she could and, like him, always cleared the snow from the stretch of footpath we called our own. In fact, my mother was respectable enough to be a lower-middle-class Tory.”

Ah I see Roy… being a Tory is all about looking down on others and keeping your drive neater than the Jones’s isn’t it? What a complete diatribe.

“Door-chimes were not her style. But that does not matter. Nor does the idea - absurd as it is offensive - that only Tories keep their brickwork pointed.”

Have you ever heard this idea? Pointed brickwork is a sign of a Tory? I imagine all those Labour voting builders must be having a real crisis of conscience now. Honestly I’ve heard Blair and Blears come out with some shit but nothing as ridiculous as this.

“But the difficulty her admirer found in reconciling my mother's policies and personality revealed a psephological truth that David Cameron would do well to recognise. Thousands, perhaps millions, of Conservatives think that by putting a blue sticker in their window at election time they are demonstrating that they are a cut above their neighbours.”

Or of course it could demonstrate that they are something else, say a member of the Conservative party perhaps? What do you think Roy? Do you also think that by putting a Labour sticker in your window it makes you somewhat lower down the social scale? Take note of this any Labour supporters out there, you appear to be getting judged more harshly than us.

“Unless Cameron appeals to the nastiest (and most pathetic) instincts of the Tory faithful, he is certain to lose some of his core vote. Hague and Howard overdid it. They led a party so overtly nasty that they sacrificed some of the hypocrisy on which Conservatism depends.”

And socialism doesn’t depend on hypocrisy then Roy? I don’t really think that Labour people should be talking to us about losing our core vote. Theirs went years ago when they sold their beliefs to Tony for a handful of magic beans.

“Pretending that the Conservatives are the "nice party" will not work. It is not true.”

This is great… you might as well write “Don’t vote Tory.. they’re evil”. Well Roy - Robespeierre, Stalin, Mao and Hitler were all socialists… who’s the nasty party now?