The public career of Polly Toynbee is a continuous source of mirth. How many socialist saviours has she hitched her wagon to, only to have her hopes crushed. Owen, Blair, Brown, Patricia Hewitt (sic), ... and now Starmer/Reeves. Always bearing the imprint of the last person to sit upon her / brief her confidentially over lunch. But before the worm turns & the Great Disappointment strikes, whilst her wagon still hitched there's nothing she won't do by way of providing what she thinks of as helpful outrider support. Here's the latest - in the Graun, as usual:
The Waspi women suffered outrageous misogyny, but in poverty-stricken Britain they’re not the top priority. The government is right in its decision not to pay the women up to £10.5bn in compensation ... a government [does not] have a financial duty to repair historical sexism.
Polly: calm down! Starmer & Reeves - just like your former beau Brown - don't mind lying & brazening these things out. It just doesn't bother them! They don't need your sophistry. Haven't you spotted how they are leading you by the nose? Here was you, Polly, back in July in that self-same Grauniad:
Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty – I’ll bet on it. I will eat my hat – or several – if Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves don’t soon find the money to bury the pernicious two-child benefit cap. In her first budget, expect Reeves to find the funds for this, and other public spending not yet announced... Some worry that Starmer and Reeves will be deterred by the campaign to force them to pay up, fearing it would signal their willingness to capitulate and splurge on everything else. I don’t think they’re that frit, with the markets and everyone that matters backing them. It would demonstrate surefooted self-confidence...
Any doubt about their good intent vanished with their creation of a new child poverty unit. ... Every Labour government always reduces poverty: this one will be no exception. Expect no less from Starmer and Reeves, and probably more... And they will start by hurling the two-child benefit cap into the dustbin of atrocious Tory policies.
Heart-rending stuff, eh? Here's how her infatuation with Brown ended ...
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Polly is ludicrously privileged. She admits herself. 4 o levels and 1 a level and she gets into Oxford. Two aunts being professors probably didn't hurt! Spends most of her time shagging and then drops out halfway before the inevitable academic kick out. Her whole career is about failing upwards. This is why she is terrified of the meritocracy.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/polly-toynbee-what-my-privileged-start-in-life-taught-me-about-the-british-class-system
Father a drunk Commie. With deep depression. Possibly as he was so very often wrong about most things.
A bit like his daughter.
“ seemed to me that these books were dull, ill-written, whimsical and childish. And for me this had a reassuring outcome, for most of his more ardent supporters were soon beginning to sell out their shares and today those books have passed into a merciful oblivion."
Philip Toynbee on Lord of The Rings.
Published in 1961 - he really had his finger on the pulse, didn't he?
Lord of The Rings has given me my catch-all description of pre-diverse Britain as "in Elder Days Before The Fall".
When the kids were football mad I showed them the video of the 1966 World Cup - they looked at the crowds at the games and said "where are all the black people?"
The Waspi thing is the gift that keeps on giving. A load of self entitled middle class women demanding that sexual equality doesn't apply to them and getting their arses handed to them by a bunch of equally self entitled and devious politicians who lied through their teeth when it didn't count, but have been forced to face reality once in office, and now will face the consequences of their mendaciousness at the next ballot box. One of those cases where you say 'I hope they both lose' and that's actually happened.........
Response from Argentine FC to a complaint that no black people played for them
"We are not Disney".
Sweet
One cannot but miss the long dormant https://factcheckingpollyanna.blogspot.com/
How handy it can be in life to have the correct surname. Otherwise one might need competence.
To be fair, she was very good looking and "a sexy beast" in her undergrad days. Doesn't make up for political idiocy though.
"However, some students failed to fulfil their early acting promise. Nick Elliott, now head of ITV drama, says that the “real sexy beast” among his fellow students was Polly Toynbee, the left-wing commentator. She confirmed this weekend that she was a “real raver” ..."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2383199,00.html
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