AFTER HAVING DEFENDED GORDON BROWN to the hilt on Wednesday night, stating that he was the ideal man for the job of running the country, someone in whom she had “every confidence”, intellectual former Minister of State for Europe Caroline Flint (pictured above) came out shortly before lunchtime on Friday with an excoriating attack on our good leader, denouncing him as being a sexist, double-dealing macho who only sees women as “window dressing” and refuses to allow them into what she called his “inner circle”.
WHILST I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT GORDON BROWN might occasionally look down upon women, even sometimes thinking of them in a sexual way, I cannot believe that he would do so about straight-talking Ms Flint, who, after all, has an Honours Degree in Film and Literature from East Anglia University and used to work for Lambeth Council.
QUESTIONS MUST, HOWEVER, be asked about some of the points Ms Flint states in the e-mail that was released on Friday, apparently through the good offices of her husband and fellow Labour campaigner for a better life for all. What concerns me most is her curious use of idiom, employing an expression that I believed I understood, but which I now imagine has arcane signification beyond my wit; in her communication she directly states to our worthy Prime Minister, discussing her loyalty: “You have strained every sinew of that loyalty”.
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