Richard Murphy, 20 December.. “I will not, unlike some, stop blogging over the holiday period.”
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Go Ritchie! Sock it to the bastards when they least expect it!
Nautical Nick
Thanks, BiND! The clip cited in the tweet cited is hilarious!
BraveFart
Vermine might have eluded this time, but for the future the following honorific is still available
Lord XXXXX of Bellend
I see John Bercow was also suitably and justly honoured by being ignored
Lizardking
A delightful clip. It’s always a delight to watch him squirm when being found out for the charlatan he is. He acts like a petulant teenager rather than a professor. A disgrace to economics. He should hang his head in shame and retreat to the safety of his echo chamber for ever.
Rowdy
Nothing for Bercow? Why, 2019 just gets better and better!
Tractor Gent
Don’t crow too quickly. Bercow will probably get something when everyone has forgotten about him and Sally has moved on. Although even a BEM would be too much.
Gene
Which clip you referring to?
Rob
A disgrace to economics
He has as much connection to economics as I have to ballet
Dennis, Tiresome Denizen of Central Ohio
A disgrace to economics
And accounting. And finance. And law. And politics. He’s something of a polymath, you know.
jgh
The Speaker Emeritus gets gonged in the Dissolution Honours, not the New Year Honours.
jgh
Ah, I read further and notice our host has made this point in the very next post. 😉
Bloke in Costa Rica
Is there actually any real chance of The Great Tuber being given a peerage, or is that just Tim’s naughty version of “I wants to make your flesh creep”? I mean, if that actually happens we’d be pretty much compelled to make like Mark Wahlberg at the end of The Departed. Some infamies cannot stand.
Tim Worstall
There was time, about when Corbynomics was raging, that there was a very serious movement to give Ritchie a peerage. As with Miliband giving Glasman one. To give him a sinecure and a position from which he could be an economic advisor to Labour.
I know, I know, but it was being seriously discussed. Then Ritchie decided to hold out for a proper salary, they said you’ll get the Lords expenses, he said not enough and the idea disappeared in a huff.
He really was just this far from being Baron Snippa of Wherever.
Bloke in Costa Rica
Has the terrible prospect fully receded, then? One can only hope.
Sam Jones
Tim, I find it hard to believe Ritchie turned down a peerage – a public platform to push his agenda and generous tax free expenses for life as well as the sheer ego of being Lord Ritchie of Ely. Even if he wasn’t given the Chief Adviser role or whatever he was looking for it would be crazy to turn down the peerage. He didn’t have anything else on at the time (other than a 1 day a week role at City University) title and most people didn’t expect Corbyn to last long so it was a one off opportunity.
Ritchie gets a fair bit of ragging on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevverage/status/1210835410726862848
Richard Murphy, 20 December.. “I will not, unlike some, stop blogging over the holiday period.”
24 December – 1 post
25 December – 0 posts
26 December – 0 posts
27 December – 1 post
Go Ritchie! Sock it to the bastards when they least expect it!
Thanks, BiND! The clip cited in the tweet cited is hilarious!
Vermine might have eluded this time, but for the future the following honorific is still available
Lord XXXXX of Bellend
I see John Bercow was also suitably and justly honoured by being ignored
A delightful clip. It’s always a delight to watch him squirm when being found out for the charlatan he is. He acts like a petulant teenager rather than a professor. A disgrace to economics. He should hang his head in shame and retreat to the safety of his echo chamber for ever.
Nothing for Bercow? Why, 2019 just gets better and better!
Don’t crow too quickly. Bercow will probably get something when everyone has forgotten about him and Sally has moved on. Although even a BEM would be too much.
Which clip you referring to?
A disgrace to economics
He has as much connection to economics as I have to ballet
A disgrace to economics
And accounting. And finance. And law. And politics. He’s something of a polymath, you know.
The Speaker Emeritus gets gonged in the Dissolution Honours, not the New Year Honours.
Ah, I read further and notice our host has made this point in the very next post. 😉
Is there actually any real chance of The Great Tuber being given a peerage, or is that just Tim’s naughty version of “I wants to make your flesh creep”? I mean, if that actually happens we’d be pretty much compelled to make like Mark Wahlberg at the end of The Departed. Some infamies cannot stand.
There was time, about when Corbynomics was raging, that there was a very serious movement to give Ritchie a peerage. As with Miliband giving Glasman one. To give him a sinecure and a position from which he could be an economic advisor to Labour.
I know, I know, but it was being seriously discussed. Then Ritchie decided to hold out for a proper salary, they said you’ll get the Lords expenses, he said not enough and the idea disappeared in a huff.
He really was just this far from being Baron Snippa of Wherever.
Has the terrible prospect fully receded, then? One can only hope.
Tim, I find it hard to believe Ritchie turned down a peerage – a public platform to push his agenda and generous tax free expenses for life as well as the sheer ego of being Lord Ritchie of Ely. Even if he wasn’t given the Chief Adviser role or whatever he was looking for it would be crazy to turn down the peerage. He didn’t have anything else on at the time (other than a 1 day a week role at City University) title and most people didn’t expect Corbyn to last long so it was a one off opportunity.