02:57 Tone deaf election night award

[greenwoodside]

Politicians, just stop and think before you let the words "my Rolls Royce" cross your lips. Though Tim Collins is an ex-soldier, and apparently has Coriolanus-like levels of political dumbness. Courtesy of Rory Carroll at The Guardian:

 

It does not quite match “the people have spoken, the bastards” level of sulk but Tim Collins, the army colonel who gave a famous speech to troops before the invasion of Iraq, has made some choice remarks about the voters of North Down who declined to elect him.

 

 “People in North Down, I think they don’t want someone who doesn’t live in Northern Ireland,” Colllins, who lives in Kent, said after being eliminated.

 

 “They’re interested in local politics, they’re not interested in cutting VAT, they’re not interested in international affairs. They’re interested in potholes and hedges.”

 

 The Ulster Unionist party candidate made headlines during the campaign when comparing the cost of insuring a car in Northern Ireland to insuring his Rolls Royce. “It’s Northern Ireland, they don’t understand these things,” he said at the count centre. “The point I was making is that an expensive car is cheaper to insure in England than it is here.”   

eta: I've hit the point of being unable to get the Dreamwidth cut to work. Surely that means it's time to go to bed! Also, Keir Starmer has won his seat. I do wonder if Labour political advisors/staff sometimes have nightmares after eating too much cheese where their man wins the election but loses his constituency. Kind of like Bonnie Dundee winning Killiecrankie but getting killed in the process, except funny.