Sharpe's Opinion
Friday, 26th Jun, 2009
Charlotte Gore Doth Protest Too Much
It happens to the best of us eventually, I suppose. Someone’s whispered in Charlotte’s ear that she could be the new Lib Dem PPC for Halifax. Coyly, she declines:
Amongst the many reasons why I would make a terrible PPC my personal favourite is this blog. Oh, it’ll take a day or so, but any campaign run by me could be derailed very quickly by finding a few choice quotes. Charlotte Gore wants to axe the welfare state! Charlotte Gore wants to cut spending! Charlotte Gore is pro Business and anti Union! Charlotte Gore wants to legalise drugs! Charlotte Gore thinks the BNP should be allowed on television! That’s just the start of it. There’s enough in this blog to kill any political career one hundred times over.
I agree with Constantly Furious. The lady doth protest too much.
She does brilliantly make the wider point, though, that our political system is utterly stymied by the fact that nobody can win by confidently standing forward and saying what they believe.
UPDATE: Costigan Quist has more, and is dead right. “Democracy stinks if Charlotte can’t contribute”
Comments
As far as I can tell, it’s better to laugh that kind of thing off and not say anything at all 
But ‘Charlotte Gore’ would never have had the courage to report that her own ‘name’ is actually a cleverly concealed anagram of ‘Hot Rectal Ogre’, would she? No, she’d wait for Dan Brown to reveal this startling fact in his next novel.
You can tell a lot about people whose names are clever anagrams – sometimes chosen for Satanic purposes. This is where my affliction of suffering from dailysex comes in handy.
For example, how many people realise that Peter Mandelson’s title was selected by the devil himself? ‘Baron Mandelson of Foy’ is a cleverly chosen anagram of ‘A Model of Broon’s Fanny’.
You couldn’t make this up….
The lady doth protest too much.
I’m reminded of a film set about 2000 years ago, in which the lead character tries desperately to explain that he is not the Messiah. Eventually, a bystander points out:
“Only the true Messiah would deny his divinity”
Actually, now I think about it, I can quite imaging Charlotte speaking from an upstairs window to explain that we are all individuals, and we must all work it out for ourselves. Best she gets dressed first, though.
Oh, hang on …. maybe Charlotte is…
no, surely not…..
could she really be…..
…Brian?
Yes! We are all individuals! Tell us how to be individuals, Charlotte!
(sorry – had to!)
Clearly she’s not the Messiah, she’s a very naughty girl.
Hmmm. Not sure that one came out right.
If the impression is left that I actually fancy standing for parliament then I didn’t protest enough.
Charlotte Gore
June 26, 2009 at 12:07 pm