Claire Khaw models herself on Talleyrand

Talleyrand has been regarded as a traitor because of his support for successive regimes, some of which were mutually hostile. According to French philosopher Simone Weil, criticism of his loyalty is unfounded, as Talleyrand served not every regime as had been said, but in reality "France behind every regime."

It is my intention to serve Britain behind every party I join or am expelled from.

How generously reassuring and realistic Kevin Scott of the British Democratic Party must have thought he was being when he wrote of its launch on Saturday after making a point of excluding me:

"Addressing the meeting, the chairman of the new party’s steering committee, Kevin Scott, said that the new party would respect the rights of those legal immigrants and their descendants to remain in the UK without fear or hindrance."

To not know not to say things like that any more is culpably clueless.  

That nationalists could be said to have "learned nothing and forgotten nothing" (except their 14 words), like the doomed Ultramontanes, brought that great man to mind.

Is "Pakiphobic" Britain really ready for a Pakinstani Shadow Home Secretary?

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Labour-Party-Shadow-Cabinet-New-Appointments-Are-Listed-In-Full-After-Ed-Miliband-Reveals-New-Team/Article/201010215754607

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadiq_Khan

We shall see, won't we?

Talented and effective though he may be, there is just a chance that making him Home Secretary is a step too far when we all know how  "Pakiphobia" is running rampant in this country. 

If I were Ed and had to reward him for running my leadership campaign, I would have made him Shadow Foreign Secretary.  The idea of the pretty but brittle Yvette Cooper being Foreign Secretary would  raise hackles too, especially amongst the more traditional nations who don't like having to deal with uppity white women.  

At this rate I don't see that Ed will be getting anywhere near power, if his Shadow Cabinet appointments are anything to go by. 

Like a Chinese emperor, he is far away and out of touch with the British public, but not as out of touch as David Miliband who supported the war and was dumb enough to say that he still supports it, reminding me of what Talleyrand said of the Ultramontane:

"They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.”