13-09-2009, 06:42 PM
Paul Rigby Wrote:I'm no expert in UK Labour Party affairs but it has always struck me as odd that Peter Shore didn't rise further.Peter Presland Wrote:... he instinctively understands the limits of allowable discourse.
Ah, yes, what Peter Shore called "the other level of government" (?)...
I was on the lower rungs of a prospective national political career through the 'Winter of discontent' and the later resignation of Jim Callaghan. I vividly recall Peter Shore being regarded as his most feared potential replacement. Michael Foot, bless him, was a gift to the right. Similarly with Foot's departure; Peter Shore was the man the Right most feared - but it wasn't to be and Kinnochio (aka the Welsh Windbag) became yet another gift to them.
So why was did Peter Shore's rise hit a glass ceiling? Could it be that he was a genuinely incorruptible 'man of the left' who simply could not be allowed to take control, even of entertainment division of real government?
PS - sorry this is a bit off-topic - maybe a seperate thread is warranted
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
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"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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