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Knowing what side your bread's buttered is a sine non qua for any greedy politico.
Lord Willie Hague knows what side his is buttered on.
For years, Lord Willie has vehemently opposed continued membership of the EU.
Why has he suddenly decided he's been wrong for so long?
The Dame has the answer..... it's sordid....
Lord Willie has been looking around for sinecures and managed to pick a hugely remunerated 'adviser' role at Teneo Group; some say £200,000 a year.
Teneo, is a corporate PR outfit run by a very mysterious New York-based Irishman, Declan Kelly.
Declan, close to the dreadful Clintons, has a portfolio of multinational clients and all are desperate for us to stay in EU.
So here's the issue...
Lord Willie is supposed to be advising these multinational giants and would have found it difficult persuading them BREXIT was in their interests.
Declan, the consummate Irish 'fixer', must have had a quiet word in Lord Willie's ear suggesting the advocacy of BREXIT might not be good for business and that Lord Willie might wish to change his mind......fast.
Willie is as thick as thieves with Lord Ashcroft. Cameron always had to watch his back when these two were plotting. He neutered them with jobs and then quietly got rid of them. Ashcroft threw his toys out of the pram before the last Tory Party Conference (pigs and Oxford). We still need to keep an eye on Will
ReplyDeleteWillie has one great political move left in his career. He can come out and write a book. "Why I took so long". He will be a media sensation. And a whole new career on the speaking circuit.
DeleteGo for it, lad.
Lord Browne could be a great mentor for Willie if two giant egos could be swept aside. But stranger things have happened
DeleteNever understood what the point of Willie was. Why doesn't he come out as a gay man? All that gravelly Yorkshire voice takes no one in.
ReplyDeleteHis nonsensical comment about the Arab Spring showed how s**t is his judgement is. A tosser.
In the 80's Will usually attended Party Conferences with a young man that everyone assumed was his boyfriend. He was also sharing a house in London with Alan Duncan who had not yet come out. Rich Alan bought the house around the corner from the Tate on the cheap from Westminster Council - a "higher income group" Council property that bit the dust, courtesy of that great Tory Leader from Tesco who was chasing votes
DeleteIf Observer is referring to Lady Porter, it is correct to say that she was a fine and forceful woman. A Tory through and through. With a very delicate son. All great mums have one.
DeleteWilie's (no pun intended) gayness is irrelevant in this matter. It is his character and honesty that are. But then, he is a politician and these criteria may also be irrelevant.
DeleteIs "through and through Tory" Lady Porter still in jail?
DeleteLady Porter fled to Israel where there is no Extradition Treaty
DeleteMrs Thatcher was tolerant and broad minded and understood the Tory mind set very well. She set the tone for a generation. There was continued gossip surrounding rising bachelor star Leon Brittan and she insisted that he got married. A widow with two young daughters sorted the problem. Outrageous queen Norman St John Stevas was told to stop cruising the London clubs and go to New York to get his rocks off. Which he did. The tradition continued for the mature bachelors with ambition. Willie found a nice girl in the Welsh Office and friend of Werrity created Mrs Fox. A wheel within a wheel popped up when Willie took over Leon's Lancashire seat.
DeleteAnd pin up boy with history at Cambridge and after (Mike Portillo) settled with a perfect political wife in Pimlico
DeleteLady Porter resettled and is living quietly in Mayfair where she bought an expensive apartment. As good Tories usually do.
DeleteScurrilous blog and spastic hornets. Bitter and twisted Dame. Sad case.
ReplyDeleteHappy Christmas Cllr Palmer. And get a life in 2016
DeleteCllr Palmer
DeletePeople whose children are disabled will be saddened that you can so cruelly use a term discarded years ago as being nasty and unpleasant, though, I suppose, you being nasty and unpleasant see no issue.
You are disgrace
The Dame 'bitter and twisted'? Doubtful, the old thing has had her moments of sadness but bears them all with good grace. She commends the same spirt of acceptance to Cllr Palmer: after all it must be galling to have been so repellant to colleagues that they refused to countenance giving him a job with any responsibility.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wasted life.
Well said Dame. You obviously are having a sharp Christmas
DeleteWillie's new line is "I am against the EEC but I am also against the break up of the UK which will happen if the UK leaves the EEC. So I will vote to stay in the EEC"
ReplyDeleteGet it?
Politician at work. Anything can be rationalised. No one has the first (or second) clue how the slippery fellow will jump. It is all about expediency.
Not surprising that loud mouth Trump will be the next President of the USofA. We are sick of the flim flam politicos.
Its not so difficult to work out. Just follow "self interest". Everything is rationalised around this. Willie's new employer is pro Europe. So he has articulated a pro Europe line - and justified it, even though he was violently ant Europe a couple of weeks ago.
DeleteShallow,shallow, shallow........