Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Miliband - Arsenal
Miliband reveals secrets on BBC!
I was listening to our MP, David Miliband on the Simon Mayo show on BBC Radio 5 Live this afternoon. Readers may think that I had been tipped off but this is not true, he acquitted himself rather well in summarising a report praising the progress in regenerating some of our cities. As Minister for Local Government and Communities, the "Potteresque" man from the Cabinet described his journeys to Portsmouth and the south coast, praised the efforts of Liverpool, Newcastle and Gateshead, and found time to mention Ipswich too.
However, because Mayo had the bit between his teeth about the British inability to learn foreign languages, David was led back to his own education at Haverstock Comprehensive School in London and his five years of learning French. He went on to describe a conversation between himself and a French minister where one spoke French and the other English! Both understood each other reasonably well (as usual the Frenchman probably had a very good grasp of the English language - always an embarassment) yet David still feels that he could have done better having studied the language for so long.
I have to say that I studied French, German, Russian, and Latin to O-Level standard but most likely couldn't make any use at all of them today. I did visit Epinay on a twin town event some years ago and managed to talk French to our hosts most of the time, and helped a little with interpretation. It does seem pretty pointless learning a language if it isn't going to get used.
However I digress, the main point of this post is to reveal the dreadful secret that David Miliband revealed to us all on national radio this afternoon. He is probably laughing up his sleeve at the plight of many of his constituents as we wallow in the mire of depression surrounding Sunderland Football Club, but he won't care...................he supports ......The ARSE.
If you missed the programme you can download it and here it all through the link below.
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