"a Blairite cuckoo in the Miliband nest".
Mum did to Maggie what she’d done to Kermit
I tried to warn you, Mum. I really did.
I wrote a load of words on my Telegraph blog on Wednesday morning urging Ed Miliband and his backbenchers to treat Margaret Thatcher’s parliamentary commemoration with decorum and respect. Who did you think they were really aimed at?
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I was in the gym when the legacy of the grocer’s daughter from Grantham ran slap bang into the indignation of a brickie’s daughter from Birkenhead. Which is just as well. If I’d viewed it in real time it might have brought back painful memories. Like when I was eight and watched The Muppets with mounting horror as my mother, dressed as a pirate, pounced on Kermit the Frog and lashed him to a yardarm. That stuff never really leaves you; it’s the childhood equivalent of being at Khe Sanh.
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“How humiliating for Dan Hodges,” someone else posted. Humiliating? Try walking into school the day after Women in Love has just been repeated on BBC Two. In my part of south London there was scant regard for the watershed.
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I’ll tell you what I think. I think the House of Commons assembled on Wednesday to honour a woman of conviction. And like it or not, a woman of conviction was what it got to see. Am I Glenda Jackson’s son? Yes, I am.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100211777/mum-did-to-maggie-what-shed-done-to-kermit/
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