The Gorsefox has an interesting little piece about Ruth Kelly.
My, doesn’t power corrupt?
Ruth Kelly
5 responses
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Which bit do you regard as corrupt – an MP supporting residents’ objections to proposed developments, or a Secretary of State asking councils to meet their housebuilding targets?
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Possibly that fact that, when she relied on constituents support she was happy to support their views and represent them – now she has her snout in the trough of a cabinet post, they can go hang as far as she is concerned…
Not that that makes her unusual among politicians, of course! -
Tim,
I’m with Jim on this one. There seems to be a clear division between her campaigns on constituency matters and her adherence to collective responsibility once within Cabinet.
One could say that John Reid’s attendance at a rally against the closure of Monklands Hospital by the Scottish Executive, while implementing hospital closures in England as Secretary of State for Health, was conduct of a far wrose character. Opportunist populism is not corrupt per se. -
Gorse Fox sees it more as hypocrisy than corruption. And he disagrees that it is “collective responsibility”. It is irresponsible and ill thought out.
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Her appointment or the policy?
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