Joanna Lovely is doing a super job with her campaign for the gurkhas, isn't she? Her link with the regiment through her father is clear and she is obviously passionate about the issue of fair treatment for them. She's a super actress and (all together now) a national treasure.
Gosh, I think she'd say.
However, when I take away the Vaseline drenched lens for a second I can't help but find the class warrior in me leaping out with a 'Spanish Inquisition' flourish. May I put on record most firmly that I am no fan of any Labour minister and I think the government has pointed the 12 bore resolutely at its collective size ten clodhopper over this issue but still Ms Lovely's 'mugging' of the minister in front of the febrile media at 4 Millbank was quite simply devious and low.
Of course someone with the wit of a Ken Clarke would have batted her away far more effectively and Phil Woolas is no Ken Clarke. However, the general paucity of talent within the government can't detract from the simple fact that a posh blonde celeb is controlling the political agenda of the country and doing it with a cynicism that the average politician would be roundly pilloried for.
I'm not sure this is good for our political system.
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