On the whole I agree with Zoe Williams and her article about Lord Freud and foodbanks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/04/lord-freud-food-banks
Except for the last paragraph.
How is Lord Freud "a Tory"?
He is a Vicar of Bray figure, cosying up to Labour when Labour was in power, insinuating himself into the Conservatives now the Conservatives are in a Coalition government.
Chairing a review here, advising a New Labour minister there, picking up a peerage along the way.
The Freud family are like that.
Part of the amorphous mass of self-interested self-obsessed people that float around the British establishment attaching themselves to whoever happens to be in power.
He might be technically a member of the Conservative party at this precise moment in time, but who knows where he will be post-2015.
Certainly you could not call him a Tory in the traditional understanding of that word.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/04/lord-freud-food-banks
Except for the last paragraph.
How is Lord Freud "a Tory"?
He is a Vicar of Bray figure, cosying up to Labour when Labour was in power, insinuating himself into the Conservatives now the Conservatives are in a Coalition government.
Chairing a review here, advising a New Labour minister there, picking up a peerage along the way.
The Freud family are like that.
Part of the amorphous mass of self-interested self-obsessed people that float around the British establishment attaching themselves to whoever happens to be in power.
He might be technically a member of the Conservative party at this precise moment in time, but who knows where he will be post-2015.
Certainly you could not call him a Tory in the traditional understanding of that word.
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