Tuesday, April 01, 2008

She Knows Whereof She Speaks ?

Guardianista Jackie Ashley (Mrs Andrew Marr) gets the claws out in a somewhat tasteless Grauniad piece. Apologies for what follows :

There has, however, been one female political heroine of the past few days. I refer, of course, to Carla Bruni, now Mrs Sarkozy, who has had the British media lying on their backs drooling, gurgling with delight and with a certain suspicious bulge in their collective trousers. Yup, agreed, she's quite a girl ...

She has it all: the smile that manages to be both demure and debauched, the perfectly judged Parisian dress sense, the Audrey Hepburn-esque tilt of the head. No Hollywood blockbuster could cast such a perfect adult-fairytale princess as Carla. My grouch isn't with her. I do think that Nicolas Sarkozy looks just a trifle silly trotting alongside her with the dazed-codfish expression of a man who's just swallowed a suitcase of happy pills; but Carla is only exercising a power that has been familiar since the dawn of time. No, it's that the adulation was so unrestrained ..

Hmmm. I recall spotting this in the Times Court and Social column the other day :

The President of the French Republic and Madame Nicolas Sarkozy arrived at Windsor Castle today on a State Visit to The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh ...
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh gave a State Banquet at Windsor Castle this evening in honour of The President of the French Republic and Madame Nicolas Sarkozy ... The following had the honour of being invited :

... Professor and Mrs Mervyn King, Mr Andrew Marr and the Hon Jacqueline Ashley ...


So the Hon Jacqueline Ashley was in pole position when it came to the trouser and adulation monitoring. The trouble is, significant other Andrew Marr has previous when it comes to trouser control, Guido Fawkes reporting that he fathered a child a few years back with Times journalist and Felicity Kendal lookalike (from some angles anyway) Alice Miles.

Her writing seems straight from the heart in those few paragraphs. Gone is the usual nuLab feminist boilerplate. You can't but wonder if she knows whereof she speaks. Did Andrew Marr get a spoon over the knuckles and a whispered instruction to get his tongue off the table and put his eyealls back in ?

2 comments:

Malthebof said...

Unfortunately in the words of the late sage of Manchester, Les Dawson, The Hon Jackie Asley has a face like a bag of spanners. I feel that this may colour her judgement

Laban said...

That was not the remark of a gentleman.