Churchill

I have managed to get to the end of Roy Jenkins' biography of Winston Churchill and whilst my reveiw of it will appear on my site very shortly I have to say that Jenkins was probably the wrong person to write the book and I think Churchill was not so great: severe personality problems, exceptionally poor leadership skills, dreadful inter personal communication abilities and an awful sychophancy complex.

 

Apart from that, don't forget that Churchill was voted the best Briton ever in a Radio 4 Today programme poll a year or so ago!

 

I should temper what I say by saying that Jenkins' book contains the vast majority of anything that I know about Churchil so may be being a little hasty in my assessment.

 

I'm glad I read it though and am thinking about a trip to Chartwell!

 

DW

Cameron and his nonsense

I really do despair at these people and their belittling of the rest of us.

Cameron says he is entitled to a private past: well, that's exceptionally selective isn't it as we are encouraged to learn a lot about his private past when it suits him.

Then again, there's his private present: I've never seen it except on quiz programmes; but Cameron opens up his present private life via a web camera. Now, won't that become his private past? Then imagine if someone watches that thing at some time in the future and spots a stolen painting on the wall of Cameron's living room or some such ... Cameron denies it was stolen and hides behind his private past. Or any other scenario you can imagine.

There have been massive scandals involving politicians and all sorts of other people that stem from private pasts and I strongly believe it's far better out than in.

Because he's refusing to discuss it and because he was caught on the hop when he was first confronted on this issue a couple of years ago and refused to discuss it then, I lost a lot of respect for this man. He's dug a hole for himself and for some reason insists on keeping digging.

Clot!

DW

Well, it's been a long time coming but the hounding is now beginning. It SEEMS that Bernard Matthews MIGHT have been importing infected Turkey meat when common sense says they shouldn't. The company denies it shouldn't have stopped. They said in the news that EU rules prevented the UK government from banning such imports. The newspapers are full of doom and mismanagement. I caught the strident voiced Andrew Marr on the BBC giving what fettle on this subject as I flicked to Radio 4 digital on the telly this morning!

Hey ho!

UPDATE: it's funny, this one. The government is taking the initative and may be prosecuting Bernard Matthews so the media is quiet. I can reveal exclusively, however, that these journo types are desperately digging to find some dirt on the government. There will almost certainly be a Panorama special on this issue within the next six months. Meanwhile, it's fairly quiet I'm happy to say.

DW

Following the revelation in a biography of the leader of the conservative party that he smoked cannabis as a 15 year old school boy I wrote this on the 'Have your Say' section of the BBC web site but I doubt it will be published so you can read it here:

Given the powers of cannabis, we can see that Cameron is clearly suffering from its longer term effect.

More than that, it strikes me that William Hague has a lot of explaining to do. UPDATE: Cameron has just been on the radio to say that he has done things in the pst that his is sorry for but he's not going to admit or deny anything to do with the latest revelations.

DW