Not often you'll hear me defending the council house grabbing millionaire who compared social conservatives to the Taleban and called for them to be 'rooted out' of the Tory party.
But at least Duncan is open and up-front about his beliefs. What you see is pretty much what you get.
His nemesis was a chap called Heydon Prowse, which sounds more like a PR firm than anything recognisably human, but who is actually a public school luvvie from Islington. Ticks all the boxes, doesn't he ?
Browse dug up Duncan's lawn, creating a bed in the shape of a £ sign, as a protest against the MPs expenses claims. Duncan, for what reason I know not (maybe he's just a nice guy - who knows ?), repaid this act by asking him to lunch. Browse turned up with a hidden recorder, and next thing Duncan's honestly and privately expressed views on the starvation diet of MP expenses were all over the media.
As a result of which he's out of the Shadow Cabinet. As Guido observes, Cameron (no social conservative himself) has watched his ratings fall and taken the appropriate action.
I understand the realpolitik of what Cameron's done, and by his leaving statement so does Alan Duncan. I guess it just sticks in the craw that Browse should pick up a scalp by his act of betrayal.
You can see why I'd make a lousy politician.
Feeling Tyred
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in All White People Are Warmongers, he [Heydon Prowse] sought to begin a campaign against what he regarded to be the Met's "racially-profiled" crackdown on alleged terrorists.
He's one of those who believe, when searching for Muslim terrosts, that a requiste number of Catholic nuns & retired Majors from Hastings also be stopped & searched by police so that it doesnt look like racism.
What a dick.
I thought the rations quip was quite witty too. Much like most "gaffes" these days, it just people - deliberately - missing the point.
You'd think Duncan could have done a little research on exactly who he was dining with, wouldn't you?
Or at least, got one of his researchers to do it...
Sorry, he should go for stupidity as much as for his attitude towards expenses.
Hmmm...
I don't want to sound like Mrs Merton BUT-
Would Alan Duncan have asked this dickhead provocateur out to lunch if he'd been a 50something out of work actor, rather than a 20something 'resting' thespian ?
Prowse is involved with this.
They claim to be involved in marketing, which is odd as the website takes crappiness to new levels.
Duncan should not have loosed off to someone he didn't know. He doesn't have the common sense to be in any position of power.
Interesting, if you are not in Dave's camp retribution is instant. If you are in his camp retribution, if it comes at all, is much delayed and hesitant.
Duncan is an idiot, Prowse is a reptile.
Prowse, like all edgy transgressives, only targets those deemed fair game by the ruling mores of the elite.
He can dwell on his cleverness at length, he'll not get the chance to pull a stunt like that again. Unless its against someone so monumentally dense that it would only be perceived as bullying...
They deserve each other.
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