Comments on: Did John Redwood attack single mothers as Welsh Secretary? http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/21/did-john-redwood-attack-single-mothers-as-welsh-secretary/ Incisive and topical campaigns and commentary on today's issues and tomorrow's problems Thu, 24 May 2012 17:35:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: alan jutson http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/21/did-john-redwood-attack-single-mothers-as-welsh-secretary/#comment-14694 alan jutson Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:19:17 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3462#comment-14694 Pleased you keep a record of all of your speeches John. Those who attempt to smear people by taking a little part of anything, out of context and then exaggerating it should pay the price of embaressment, but often do not. Those who live by the comment should die by the comment, but unfortunately any retraction or correction is never given the same air time/page spread, as the original. Its simply another attempt to smear, used as a distraction from the real problems we have. What a shame that Politics has sunk so low. Do you dispare as much as we do at this sort of thing, or do you simply regard it as part of being an MP and accept that it will continue to go on, and you deal with it as best you can. Reply: I am intrigued that Labour think it worth exhuming these very old smears. Clearly I am doing somehting to upset them. I think in the current climate their smears do them damage. Pleased you keep a record of all of your speeches John.
Those who attempt to smear people by taking a little part of anything, out of context and then exaggerating it should pay the price of embaressment, but often do not.
Those who live by the comment should die by the comment, but unfortunately any retraction or correction is never given the same air time/page spread, as the original.
Its simply another attempt to smear, used as a distraction from the real problems we have.
What a shame that Politics has sunk so low.
Do you dispare as much as we do at this sort of thing, or do you simply regard it as part of being an MP and accept that it will continue to go on, and you deal with it as best you can.

Reply: I am intrigued that Labour think it worth exhuming these very old smears. Clearly I am doing somehting to upset them. I think in the current climate their smears do them damage.

]]> By: Apostate Guardianista http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/21/did-john-redwood-attack-single-mothers-as-welsh-secretary/#comment-14693 Apostate Guardianista Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:34:08 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3462#comment-14693 If Toynbee has a pop then you can automatically assume you're right. If Toynbee has a pop then you can automatically assume you’re right.

]]> By: mikestallard http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/21/did-john-redwood-attack-single-mothers-as-welsh-secretary/#comment-14692 mikestallard Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:58:23 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3462#comment-14692 Do you know what? At the gym today, I was listening intently to Jeremy Kyle. A thin man who hadn't shaved was sitting, looking mean, next to a rather nice looking, rather unkempt lady. They had, apparently, got drunk, and, although she was having sex with at least two other men, she was sure that the drunken clinch which happened was the moment that their son had been conceived. She was determined, however, that the putative father could only see her child when she was in a good mood because she wanted to be there to see that her baby wasn't harmed. Question: who was the father? Well, it happened to be the unshaven man. So that's all right then. They were sent for Counselling with a "genius". Every time I watch Jeremy Kyle, I see stuff like this. Every time I drive up the road to our quiet working class estate I see stuff like this. Every time I open the paper, I see stuff like this. My own family lives like this - doesn't yours too? It is no longer "naughty" to have a "fling": it is now normal. And we are not allowed to discuss it because the Labour Party thinks that repression is a Bad Thing and that the Traditional Family is an agent of Fascism. Thank God I am not a child today, that's all. And Jeremy Kyle was saying the very same thing. Do you know what? At the gym today, I was listening intently to Jeremy Kyle. A thin man who hadn’t shaved was sitting, looking mean, next to a rather nice looking, rather unkempt lady. They had, apparently, got drunk, and, although she was having sex with at least two other men, she was sure that the drunken clinch which happened was the moment that their son had been conceived. She was determined, however, that the putative father could only see her child when she was in a good mood because she wanted to be there to see that her baby wasn’t harmed.
Question: who was the father?
Well, it happened to be the unshaven man.
So that’s all right then.
They were sent for Counselling with a “genius”.
Every time I watch Jeremy Kyle, I see stuff like this.
Every time I drive up the road to our quiet working class estate I see stuff like this.
Every time I open the paper, I see stuff like this.
My own family lives like this – doesn’t yours too?

It is no longer “naughty” to have a “fling”: it is now normal.
And we are not allowed to discuss it because the Labour Party thinks that repression is a Bad Thing and that the Traditional Family is an agent of Fascism.
Thank God I am not a child today, that’s all.
And Jeremy Kyle was saying the very same thing.

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