Dave’s spin doctor insults brave Paras
So much for comrade corbyn’s Shadow cabinet representing all parts of the united Kingdom. his reshuffle of colleagues has simply reinforced its London bias — a third being mPs from the capital.
There seems to be no end to blundering former Cameron lickspittle Sir Craig Oliver’s ability to offend. Not content with accepting an undeserved knighthood for being the former PM’s press spokesman and cashing in greedily with his memoirs, Oliver has now insulted two brave British soldiers who were badly injured while serving Queen and country.
Buried in his tedious new book is a poisonous reference to the security officers tasked with protecting Nigel Farage.
Oliver met them while accompanying Cameron for a TV debate with the Ukip leader. he writes: ‘I’m struck by the people [Farage] has around him. They look like bouncers in a nightclub that are trying to look respectable — oiled hair and shiny suits.’
In fact, the two men were former paratroopers. One had lost his leg on active service in Afghanistan; the other sustained a gunshot wound.
Oliver should have paid more attention to such details — but such a grotesque mistake is typical of a man whose memoirs also include a spelling horror on the flyleaf, describing himself, a former BBC employee, as an ‘awardwining’ journalist.
hopefully, as he cashes the fat cheque he got from his publishers, Oliver will eat a slice of humble pie as he realises that, by comparison, men such as those who worked for Nigel Farage received as little as £10,000 in compensation for injuries they received while serving with the Army in Afghanistan. ThereSA May faces an intriguing challenge in her Maidenhead constituency at the next general election — in the form of a candidate for the Justice For Men And Boys (And The Women Who Love Them) party. This fringe group was founded on the principle that ‘the State is antimale’. Facing Mrs May will be the party’s leader, former Tory consultant Mike Buchanan, who has accused women of thinking they’re ‘divine creatures’, who fears ‘fatherhood is being systematically removed from society’ and that ‘taxpayers are subsidising sperm banks for single women and lesbians’. Buchanan says he knows the Maidenhead area because he worked at a Brylcreem factory there in the eighties. ThiS week’s Pass The Sick Bag Award For Sycophancy goes to Labour mP Stephen hepburn. Speaking about his boss Jeremy corbyn’s plan to attend an event to mark the 80th anniversary of the Jarrow march, hepburn said: ‘if he had been at the side of the road when those marchers passed by, Jeremy would have shared his sandwiches with them.’ BBC political anorak Nick robinson has confessed he once thought Theresa May so dull that when she was home Secretary and he was invited to lunch, he turned her down. ‘I told her office they could send a press release instead,’ the Today programme presenter recalled. But now she’s PM, he’d jump at the chance of lunch with her.