Too old to be a child star, Too young to take leads
Really Charles Clarke's outbursts are getting more and more self-deluding and embarrassing for both him and the Party.
It isn't his age that disqualifies Charles from being a future leader of the Labour Party, it's the lack of judgement exhibited in his interventions, and his record of non-delivery at the Home Office.
A shame, because he is a highly intelligent guy with good politics. He needs to find a role, but the interviews he has periodically given don't help him or Labour.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 7:55 am
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Didn't Charles Clarke start out in politics as a Hackney Councillor?
I believe he was head of the housing committee between 1980 and 1986. Whilst in that position he managed to get himself himself a Hackney Council owned Street Property that of course he now owns.
Horrible Man
8:55 am, February 15, 2008
Yes he was a Hackney cllr - for the same ward as I'm in now.
I have no idea if the story you cite is true.
8:57 am, February 15, 2008
Perhaps he's trying to beat Ted Heath's record for the longest political sulk in history...
9:46 am, February 15, 2008
Or maybe Labour is really that poor that he has every right to moan.
10:19 am, February 15, 2008
Clarke's a horrible bully with awful politics, IMO, though Luke I do applaud your use of long-forgotten Morrissey album-track lyrics in headlines and hope this is the start of a trend
1:20 pm, February 15, 2008
Hey Luke, the link doesn't seem to work. I can guess what he said mind you... I thought he started political life as an NUS though.
1:10 pm, February 16, 2008
Link should work now. You can find the Standard story I was trying to link to by searching for Charles Clarke in google news. He was NUS President on a Broad Left ticket (i.e. Communist not Labour Students) then later a Labour cllr in Hackney.
4:42 pm, February 16, 2008
any comment re the continuing "non delivery" at the Home Office?
Didn't think so.
11:39 am, February 17, 2008
Charles Clarke actually speaks Cuban Spanish harking back to his days spent on communist holidays in Cuba rooming with his best chum Mandy
9:14 am, February 18, 2008
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