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Lesley Riddoch: Welcome to fantasy politics – much better than the real thing

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Published Date: 09 March 2009
CELEBRITY culture has created an overweening interest in physical appearance. Serious-minded political types have overcompensated, preferring endless debate on the minutiae of policy change to consideration of the personality, background and the skill-set change needed to deliver.
Our political class is full of time-servers. That's the system. But it creates an appalling time lag in talent when circumstances change. Our current "top table" appears temperamentally unsuited to change, and few have experience of success in the r...



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  • Last Updated: 08 March 2009 8:54 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Lesley Riddoch
 
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Geomac 1,

Scotland 09/03/2009 13:17:28
I had decided that this article was so bad that it should not merit comment but I stumbled on the words in the final para, namely, "there is an embarrassment of talent in these islands" after reading who Riddoch would have as Ministers of state in her choice: Examples:

President: David Attenborough
Prime Minister : Helen Mirren
Transport Ken Liningstone
Environment: Nicholas Stern
Foreign Secretary: Shirley Williams
Chief Whip: Max Clifford
Home Secretary: Clive Stafford Smith
Sport: Archbishop Sentamu
etc etc
These choices certainly showed the total lack of common sense by this regular contributor who seems to have lost all common sense and perspective - time for a change here Mr McDougal.

 

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