First Drafts - The Prospect magazine blog

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1. The Bolter says:

   October 8, 2008 at 5:56 pm

   Very well done The Ian Duncan-Smiths - very well done The Prospect.
   It is refreshing to read that the ‘ centre left ‘ are beginning to fiddle less while Rome burns, and focus instead on the cancerous tumours that they and their ship’s surgeon Howard Shipmanesque
   greedy , self-serving management consultants ( set leading questions to focus group simpletons - massage answers to gain credible percentages - flog fake goods / politics accordingly - leggit with the swag ) have given Britain since inventing the fault line that is New Labour

   This volt face encouraged, perhaps, by the chilling return of former management consultant Mr Mandleson ( did Sarkozy make his leaving Brussels a condition of entertaining Mr Brown last week ? ) to the bosom of his Labour family ( the phrase ” you can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family ” springs to mind ) the ultimate grandparent wolf in sheep’s clothing ..

   If it is rumoured that Mr Campbell will also be back ( if he can
   paddle away from the man con infested waters of the give-that-man-
   a-job BBC ) all that will be be needed is for Mr Blair to help Mr Brown ( suggest Madame Tussuad’s remove some of the wax from his face ?) confident that his ‘leadership’ will bring the evolution
   not revolution Tory cavalry back before what is left of this island sinks without trace beneath the Paul Schmidt sack cloth and ashes

   for non-subscribers, this week’s Speccy continues the theme :

   http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/2189196/clinton-democrats-are-to-blame-for-the-credit-crunch.thtml
2. The Bolter says:

   October 9, 2008 at 9:12 pm

   Last night , assistant Financial Times editor, Gillian Tett ,
   pleaded on BBC Newsnight : ” One of the reasons the public are so angry is because the banks are being shamefully slow at expressing any remorse - we’ve yet to hear a senior banking executive stand up and say sorry ”

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dwdz0

   Ms Tett might already know the right senior banking executive - reported in the Guardian ‘ As chairman of both Financial Times
   parent Pearson and the HBOS banking group..lifelong friend of
   Peter Mandelson ‘,former management consultant Dennis Stevenson
   (aka Lord) should be cordially invited to step up to the plate

   http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/jul/12/mediatop100200432
3. The Bolter says:

   October 9, 2008 at 9:57 pm

   Last night , assistant Financial Times editor, Gillian Tett, pleaded on BBC Newsnight : ” One of the reasons the public are so angry is because the banks are being shamefully slow at expressing any remorse - we’ve yet to hear a senior banking executive stand up and say sorry ”

   Ms Tett might already know the perfect senior banking executive - reported in the Guardian ‘As chairman of both Financial Times
   parent Pearson and the HBOS banking group .. lifelong friend of Peter Mandelson’ former management consultant Dennis Stevenson
   ( aka Lord )should be cordially invited to step up to the plate
4. rabbite says:

   October 20, 2008 at 7:07 pm

   David Hanger chairs a think tank. How did it fare?