I enjoyed Richard Caborn’s speech yesterday moving the motion to support the Gracious speech - almost as much as Richard enjoyed it. It was good to hear the Prime Minister being teased and upbraided by an authentic voice from New Labour - reminding us of how under Blair they stood for all night drinking, more gambling, more national parties at the Dome and elsewhere and soccer as the new religion. It was amusing to see the Prime Minister reminded of the 9-3 victory of an English soccer team over Scotland. It was even more fun seeing the glowering look on Gordon Brown’s face as comment after comment showered in about the hedonism and Englishness of the Blair days compared with the more puritanical and Scottish presentation of the present government. We have gone from a government wanting to bring Calvin Klein to the masses to one wanting to bring Calvin to the masses. I wondered why Gordon’s Chief Whip had chosen Mr Caborn - maybe he has a sense of humour as well. That could prove dangerous in this serious regime.

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