pickCor, I‘m kinda addicted to memoir audios at the moment! 😂 (This is my 7th so far this year!!) But this was utterly fascinating. A real fly on the wall look into life in parliament.
I swear, the TV show "Yes Minister" might as well have been a documentary.
I'm starting to understand why the country is in the state it is:
"The whips had apparently been told to exclude anyone with an interest in a subject for fear that they would ask awkward questions. They preferred non-specialist MPs, who spent the committees looking at their phones or catching up on correspondence. For the same reason it seemed doctors were not allowed on the health legislation committee."
Why Rory Stewart turned to politics. He watched politicians completely destroy what he and others had worked for in (and with) Afghanistan. He is not mincing his words. And we're only on page 15.
I figured this book would be mainly about the Brexit years onward, but we're starting with Iraq and Afghanistan before Rory Stewart even became a politician, and it is even more entertaining than I expected!
pickAn excellent account of the infighting between the major participants in the first New LAbour government between 1997 and 2001. The animosity between Blair and Brown was vitriolic even then. Read my Goodreads review at; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1595181.Servants_of_the_People. #politics #andrewrawnsley #servantsifthepeople #ukpolitics #tonyblair #newlabour #gordonbrown #nonfiction #history
Fascinated by this account of the successes, failures and extraordinarily deep animosities of the first New Labour administration (1997-2001). I am amazed that they achieved anything as so much time and energy were expended pursuing bitter rivalries and grudges within the Cabinet. #andrewrawnsley #servantsofthepeople #ukpolitics #politics #history #newlabour #tonyblair #gordonbrown
A fantastically apposite summation of Robin Cook‘s misjudgement of personal issues while he was Foreign Secretary in Tony Blair‘s New Labour administration. #andrewrawnsley #servantsofthepeole #robincook #hubris #politics #nonfiction #ukpolitics #newlabour #lackofcommonsense #goodmanledastray #history #foreignsecretary
Finding this fascinating so far. #andrewrawnsley #theendoftheparty #politics #history #ukhistory #ukpolitics #coffee #caffeine #booksandcoffee #coffeeandbooks #currentlyreading #breakfastbook
pickA fascinating insight into Westminster intrigues from one of Britain's most enduring politicians. Read my goodreads review at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35070258-kind-of-blue. #kennethclatke #kenclarke #kindofblue #politics #history #westminster #parliament #ukpolitics
