2020 Vision

This ‘2020 Vision‘ website/debate/anti-Brown astroturfing thing is probably of limited interest to most people and little will probably said about it here after this. Things get the attention they deserve and 2020 Vision is, after all, largely about two damaged egos, previously found wanting, gasping for the oxygen of publicity.

 

Charles Clarke, a figure so ridiculous that, while Education Secretary, he had to be kept away from initiatives on childhood obesity and exercise. An hulking, authoritarian figure, nursing an impotent grudge of thwarted ambition larger than his famed double dinners.

 

And it’s a constant source of huge disappointment to me that Milburn is not held in wider ridicule than he is. He’s like a little known comedian who deserves to be huge. An in-joke that only a handful get. Consider his ridiculous bouffanted hair, geordie sneer, and casual, old school sexism (his description of Harriet Harman as ‘fucking hopeless‘ almost endears you to the woman).