The Quiet Man has once again turned up, with or without the
volume: Iain Duncan Cough (for it is he) has now been given his own excuse note
by the legendarily foul mouthed Paul Dacre, written up for him by Andrew
Pierce, who as we all know is gay, because he bangs on incessantly about it and
posed for his masthead photo wearing a pink shirt.
That's a nasty Cough you've got there
Pierce’s value to the Daily
Mail is twofold: he writes impeccably right-wing drivel, as demanded by the
Vagina Monologue, and his being employed there allows the likes of Littlejohn
and Letts to get away with the not so occasional exhibition of rank homophobia.
When they are called out, Pierce is wheeled out and asserts that, as a gay man,
he would not work for a paper than allowed such things.
So he’s a blatant liar as well: this, too, serves him well
at the Mail, and is demonstrated more
than amply with today’s piece: “My
days on the breadline, a disgraceful BBC and the wife whose love sustains me:
Iain Duncan Smith hits back at the left”. This ticks several Mail boxes at once: family life, Beeb
bashing, alleged humility and hard work, and the assertion that anyone
dissenting is “the left”.
Duncan Cough, Pierce tells, lived after leaving the Army in
his future wife’s bedsit, but should not have been there as he was not paying
rent. Strangely, whenever I’ve had to keep a crash pad, whether in Bristol
(twice) or Amsterdam, I’ve rented the place full
stop. Not conditionally on only one person living there. With a pay meter
for power, what the heck’s the problem with him living there? That sounds
false.
He also concedes that he did not claim Unemployment Benefit
after he left the Army in 1981. This was because his bounty payment meant he
had too much in savings to allow him to qualify. So he was nowhere near the
breadline. He then wrote lots of letters in order to get himself back into
work. So have the rest of us. Then he lost his job again. But by this time he
had married into money.
The assertion that he was having trouble making ends meet in
1990 does not sit well with the Daily
Mail’s own earlier assertion that Duncan Cough’s Chingford constituency
home was bought for around £300,000
two years later and that no mortgage was involved. Or, for that matter,
that the money they made from selling the flat in Fulham was in the region of
£600k. Not your everyday loose change.
Pierce’s excuse note is truly lame. Even the Beeb bashing
looks clumsy and contrived, as does the bizarre attempt to swipe at Mil The
Elder precipitating a by-election (“expensive
and unnecessary”, but not applicable to female Tory MPs going to live in
New York) in South Shields. What the hell does that have to do with the Bedroom
Tax? And we mustn’t attack IDS because his wife has had cancer.
Not even Mail Online’s
commenters are buying this tripe. But
there’ll be more later.
2 comments:
"This was because his bounty payment meant he had too much in savings to allow him to qualify."
Presumably cohabiting with someone in work would have knocked that on the head too?
"And we mustn’t attack IDS because his wife has had cancer."
That was the low point for me too. How utterly contemptible to use a sick wife as some sort of human shield. Goes to show you don't need to be on benefits to lose self-respect..
Is that why he conned thousands of pounds of expenses for her, as a sort of sickness benefit?
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