Kizza job! I could run country like Dave
Maurice O'Brien • Published 20 Jan 2011 09:35
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KIZZA Besigye isn't perhaps the kind of admirer you boast about but he's not too proud to admit that his mind's on the same wavelength as our Boy Dave.
Accused of wholesale plagiarisation of the Tories' election manifesto, the one which snatched defeat from the jaws of victory just last May, Kizza's party spokeswoman denied it vehemently, declaring: "If great minds think alike, then that is good for us."
Kizza is leader of the Forum of Democratic Change, Uganda's main opposition party, and he knows all about democracy because, when he looked likely to topple cuddly old President Yoweri Museveni in 2006, he was hauled up on bogus rape and treason charges just before election day and the voters went off him big time.
Who knows whether Kizza has the same PR man's demeanour, or even great mind, as our Dave? But if the Ugandan people get offered a referendum any time before they go to the polls next month they should be very, very wary.
Only last week 314 loyal members of our House of Commons, led in person by Dave and his cronies, voted against an amendment to the European Union Bill declaring that "the sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament in relation to EU law is hereby reaffirmed". So how sincere was that referendum offer on the Lisbon Constitreaty?
And if Kizza's really paying attention he'd better study the Tory campaign for last week's Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election to find the perfect model for disenfranchising your own supporters.
HOW odd that everyone's rushing round trying to find jobs for former Foreign Secretary David Miliband, albeit he's clearly in need of succour having been shafted by his little brother for the job he really wanted.
Vice president of Sunderland football club at fifty grand a year, a few teaching posts, and a seat in a bank boardroom are all being touted.
But hasn't he already got a job for which he's paid around £70,000, along with add-ons in compensation for no longer being a government minister? Or has the job of MP for South Shields somehow lost its sheen?
ANYONE considering deposing our Royal family in favour of republicanism would surely have thought twice after seeing the weird Sarah Palin imitating a glassy-eyed automaton doll, while mechanically delivering her "blood libel" televised statement last week.
Couple that with Obama having apparently 'saved' his presidency with his Tucson funeral address and we should surely start praying that Her Majesty quickly discovers the secret of eternal life.
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