Polly points us towards this obscene piece of political posturing today:
Ed Balls shows up to name a gleaming new school IT unit after Gwynneth Dunwoody.
Foul.
Naming something after a statesman (ie, a dead politician) yes, but this, in the middle of a by-election?
The rest of Polly\’s piece is her noting that the rest of the population now sees Labour as some of us have done for a decade and more.
“Naming something after a statesman (ie, a dead politician) yes…”
Plus, they usually wait a decent interval. At least until some grass has started growing on the freshly turned earth…
JuliaM, this is NuLabour we’re talking about here. Old news is no news.
I thought that this was aganst the rules, although I can’t remember why.