Chloe Smith MP has resigned from the government. I cannot help but be reminded of this interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqiFr0uppVk
I actually feel sorry for Chloe Smith. Rumour has it Cameron promoted her to the Treasury erroneously, thinking she was an accountant because she'd worked for Deloitte when that was not true, and she was very clearly out of her depth from then on. But she is no loss to ministerial office. I hope Deloitte will have her back.
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Uncomfortable to see another human struggling like that – but anyone should be praised for resigning from this vile shower of bluffers and chancers. Maybe a stint on 71.50 a week combined with a hammering from the bedroom tax would be educative. You say, Richard, that she ‘was out of her depth’ but what does this mean: that she lacked the technique used by other bluffers and liars who have a well-honed bluster, blather and bully approach to covering up grotesque lies like Duncan Smith, Lord ‘Fraud’, who, despite manifest incompetence, keep going. Paxman is picking soft fruit here -he’s pretty ineffective, in my view, when challenging the other thugs.
Somehow, I suspect she won’t go down the £71.50 a week route.
If she were not a Tory I could almost feel sorry for her. Will it be the Chiltern Hundreds, or is she just waiting to lose her seat?
If she were not a Tory I could almost feel sorry for her. Clearly sent out to defend the indefensible by her seniors. Will it be the Chiltern Hundreds, or is she just waiting to lose her seat? Paxman’s expression at the end of that interview was priceless.
I have seen this before and I have not changed by view that she performed very well given that she was “c[C]learly sent out to defend the indefensible by her seniors”, and Paxman’s question “Are you incompetent” was horribly insulting.
Paxman was inappropriately aggressive, I agree
Yes-as I said above, Paxman is less effective against the thugs, often not asking the really incisive questions -he should be put out to graze!
I think people are politicising this too much.
Most other jobs, you pass an interview to get the job. This requires the company to understand what you have achieved from University and since then.
Politics doesn’t. Both parties, the conservatives and labour have senior people from the top schools. Even nick clegg, who I don’t know what he does, went to the best school in the country.
Then you require financial means. If you want the top people you pay the top money. Charities CEO’s aren’t poor by any means. This lady wasn’t getting the top money being part of the B team.
So I would suggest that since 1997 at least, I am still trying to be young, the top people haven’t worked in politics. This is a problem for both sides of the house, and the UK in the whole.