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Friday, 8th June 2007

Tim Worstall has an original explanation of Polly Toynbee's support for Harriet Harperson, rather than Hilary Benn:

[N]iece of a Countess supported by g-g grandaughter of an Earl.

Hilary Benn is, of course, merely the second son of a Viscount.

Further, the Harman connection is to a title from 1677, the Toynbee one to a title from 1322, revived in 1660.

The Viscountcy dates only from 1942.

Easy to see what's happening here, the ladies are simply ganging up on some unspeakable arriviste.


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Disraeli's ghost

June 8th, 2007 12:02pm

So does that mean that Tonybee is posher than Cameron?

Toby Belch

June 8th, 2007 2:52pm

So I suppose Ms Harman and Tonybee are not Bollinger Bolshveiks but feudal feminists

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