Great result. Then, this morning, Rod Liddle's column in the Sunday Times. Here's a quote:
"Once they drew their inspiration from Karl Marx, William Morris and the Fabians. Now the Labour party has turned to Strictly Come Dancing, a BBC television programme in which people you have vaguely heard of learn to dance. According to one of the party’s biggest weblogs, The Progressive, this ecstatically bland show epitomises modern socialist values. Activists are instructed, with leftie condescension, first to watch the programme because “it’s a salutary experience for us serious-minded folk to indulge in popular passions from time to time”. Then to be uplifted by it, because it should “act as a spur to everyone engaged in the social democratic project”. A modern-day clause 4, then.
Never mind nationalising the top 100 companies, Labour’s patronage of dancing may prove vital: “The feelgood factor generated by this boost to dancing could even swing a tight election.” Reading this, you wonder who to feel more sorry for — the party, or the harmless millions watching Strictly Come Dancing unaware they are handmaidens to a revolutionary political movement.
And our next couple on the floor are Keir Hardie and Rosa Luxemburg who will be doing the cha-cha to Touch My Bum by the Cheeky Girls."
The Progressive
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