Again, I suspect the core of the problem is that none of these people can ever admit they were wrong about anything except maybe being too nice and left wing, because admitting you were wrong about something opens up the idea that you might have been wrong about almost everything
I’ll also say that you couldn’t vat-grow a person less capable of accurately describing what’s happening, than Simon is. The idea that what you can see is exactly what it looks like is not only offensive but utterly unthinkable to him, blasphemous even.
Marr says that Sir Keir taking tens of thousands in free suits looks bad, and proposes that MPs should have to declare all the donations they take. Nobody says But Andrew, that is the existing system, that’s exactly how we know about this. We move swiftly on. 
There was great “intellectual vigour” in the nineties because parties of the left embracing neoliberalism then cajoling, shitehousing and excluding their one-time supporters was a major task requiring industrial quantities of professional bullshit. The results are all around us. 
We have joked in the past about how a certain kind of Sensible Moderate has nothing but screeching and appealing to the ref, but even I am a bit stunned to see open celebration at the cops “pushing back” against their over-mighty elected representatives by searching their houses. 
Again, three of the 2019 election leaders being ejected from politics in deeply bizarre circumstances while the two main parties are led by odd little men that nobody appears to actually like, who were elected via a very fishy process, does not shout “democracy is working” to me.
As I’ve said before, I am never going to vote for anyone whose core, repeatedly stated position is that I am scum who must be ruthlessly excluded, but even if they weren’t doing that I wouldn’t reward them for delivering little except stuff I absolutely detest.
If they saw our present moment not as a terrible crisis showing the assumptions of forty years had been terribly, disastrously wrong, but as a golden opportunity to seize their rightful place as the party of the Thatcherite consensus, then they would behave exactly like this. 
I’m being serious when I say it’d be handy to have a bit of a push on even something as feeble as a few of the lads admitting they fucked up under pressure, because they were so mad keen to fend off the Islamo-communist terror of old Jezza and his plans for genocidal broadband.
Stuff big smart brains like us have been talking about for years On Here basically, minus the part where slicker versions of the same shit is in the daily papers. But it is helpful to have someone like the Beeb investigating to get the precise style and figures involved…
Text is here archive.fo/c0uYf May come back to this later because, Oof.
If you’ve got senior Labour right figures working out how to not expel a crazed racist because that might impact on someone within the Circle Of Trust, *in their own words*, and nobody acknowledges it or gives a fuck: you just have to admit the whole thing is bollocks and shrug.
What has the last five years been if not one long, graphically-detailed demonstration that about four newspaper editors with fucking destroy anyone who displeases them, and that the key to power is giving them exactly what they want on demand, with no questions asked?
The piece is half about the contempt these try-hards have for posh people who got their jobs through patronage, rather than serially lying and denouncing their colleagues to the press. It’s Maguire who chose to focus on actively shitting on the entirety of liberal/left Britain. 