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Sunday 27 May 2012

Winning friends & influencing people

Denis MacShane's Telegraph profile of Alan Johnson -  all-round grown-up, natty dresser and Elvis Costello (!)  fan -  goes some way to explaining why the ex-postman is feared by Tory high command:

Although Johnson has emerged with clean hands from the expenses scandal, he knows that putsching Brown now will require a general election. This would become a single-issue vote, fought on MPs expenses and as damaging for the Conservatives as for Labour. Like the "khaki" election after the First World War, it would produce a distorted parliament and British democracy would be still further weakened. Instead, Johnson will get on with being Home Secretary. Expect him to be seen walking the beat as once he walked his round – gently nudging police chiefs to get policemen out of cars and canteens and be seen by the public on the streets of our nation once again.

I know and like Zia, and I think it's fair to describe his political views as ignorant, fatuous, xenophobic and essentially anti-American.

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