Anyway there is a rather odd sentence in the piece:
The reason we should have disquiet about Harriet is because she is either thick or criminally disingenuous. My guess is thick. Being a bit thick should not disqualify someone from leading their party, I suppose, as both Iain Duncan Smith and Lord Salisbury would concur.Lord Salisbury thick? This the man whom Churchill described as "that mighty intellect" and is generally regarded as one of our most astute PMs ever.
I was going to write more on this subject but having just googled the subject I see that Jonathan Pearce at Samizdata has noticed the same bizarre sentence, so go and read his post instead.
I suspect that Liddle has seen an aristocratic PM and assumed that he must be some Bertie Wooster type of upper class twit but hasn't thought it necessary to actually know learn anything about Lord Salisbury before developing an opinion.
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I wouldn't have classed IDS as 'thick' either...
I'd have said he was pretty normal for a politician, but not actually an exceptionally intelligent leader like Salisbury.
I can make the front cover with an edgy opinion piece arguing that Ronnie Corbett isn't very tall.
Spilled my coffee, you bastard.
"I suspect that Liddle has seen an aristocratic PM and assumed that he must be some Bertie Wooster type of upper class twit"
Rod Liddle was once editor of the Today programme but has since (partially) seen the light. Even so, this particularly stupid comment of his illustrates that you can take the liberal apostate out of the BBC but removing the BBC from said apostate is more difficult.
Yes, the class war aspects of his statement are probably a relic of his political past.
Possibly he had in mind some other Lord Salisbury?
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