Hi, I'm Andrew Adonis. I'm so one-dimensional, so shallow and so incapable of self-reflection that I think the answers to everything lie in the past, not the future.
I'm 100% blind to what the electoral system has done and to what I did by demanding a suicidal pro-EU strategy".
I'm 100% blind to what the electoral system has done and to what I did by demanding a suicidal pro-EU strategy".
"Comically - because there's no idiot with a more gargantuan ego than me - I reach the correct conclusion about Labour and the Lib Dems while unbelievably ruling out the only way to get there: electoral reform.
But do you know why I do that? Really, why?"
But do you know why I do that? Really, why?"
"Because if Britain had a fair, plural voting system, everything I've wrongly assumed about the country for the last 25 years would lie in tatters. If I analysed how much FPTP distorts everything, I'd be forced to admit that it is what destroys progressive politics".
"And I can't ever do that. Ever. My ego and my narcissism will never allow me to admit to being wrong about anything. That's just not how I got where I am in life.
"Do you know how blinkered and non-evidence based I am? I refer to New Labour's focus on 'aspiration' - and hail myself as its architect - when under Blair's watch, the UK became the country with the least social mobility in the entire developed world.
telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/15…
telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/15…
"I also laud myself and New Labour for the introduction of university tuition fees: which leave students in mountainous levels of lifelong debt which EIGHTY-THREE PER CENT will never pay off".
studyinternational.com/news/uk-report…
studyinternational.com/news/uk-report…
"But you see, I don't bother doing any research on things like that. That's for the little people. Don't you realise how important I am? Important people, like me, get to ignore evidence, ignore data, and completely ignore how many Leave seats there are under FPTP".
"What's that you say? New Labour's maintenance and encouragement of the property bubble and debt bubble was the very opposite of what any party seeking social mobility would do? You are an evil Corbynista and you must be ERADICATED".
"You say that Blair had to be dragged into agreeing to devolution - which I hail him for - failed to properly reform the corrupt House of Lords, while I congratulate him on 'progressive constitutional reform', and took Scottish voters so much for granted that the SNP took over?"
"I'm sorry. Like my media mates, I'm based in London. I never go north of the Watford gap, so I do not recognise the picture which you paint. Me and my media mates know what's best, and I am a great man".
"And you know what the bottom line is? Under New Labour, I became a Lord! So I could look down on all of you plebs forever! I enjoyed huge success and prosperity under Blair... therefore, so did everyone else. Because in my world, the only thing that truly matters... is me".
