Tessa Jowell is the first British minister in recorded history to retire from her family on order to spend more time with her government.
– Andy Hamilton
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Thus confirming what I’ve long thought – that Andy Hamilton is one of the funniest men in the country. And far, far better than most of his ranting contemporaries, like Jeremy Hardy, Mark Steel & co.
I don’t know who Andy Hamilton is, but March 6, Melanie Phillips wrote of Tessa Jowell: “So she has become arguably the first minister to resign from her marriage in order to spend more time with her leader.”
Verity, he’s one of the writers mind behind such British comedies as Not The Nine O’Clock News, Drop The Dead Donkey, Mr White Goes to Westminster and one of the principal wits on The News Quiz.
I’ve never seen any of those programmes, but if you dub him a wit, I’ll trust that he is. Anyway, it looks as though Melanie Phillips said it first.
This has been said by a few people, but I don’t know who to credit originally.
A member of the Question Time audience mentioned it on the last programme, for which she was indirectly attacked by Hazel ‘Hyperactive’ Blears as more or less being opportunist in her comments.
About an hour later, her parliamentary colleague Diane Abbott made the same quip on the following programme (the name, I can’t remember).
Well it was an obvious joke for a man of Andy’s talents to make . Does those in his sleep.
Take our word for it Verity, he is a very funny little man.
Now if you would only download that agressive Real Player, you could partake on the BBC Radio Player, like the rest of us.
What was the name of his take on the American Revolution called again?(slyly pulling in the overseas audience).
The only thing is, I thought I had Real Player and I think my techie took it off in an emergency or something, and now I’m afraid to download it in case I do something to my computer.
Yes, it was an easy enough quip to make and I think it was probably spontaneous combustion. Lots of people probably thought of it at the same time.
Verity writes:
“The only thing is, I thought I had Real Player and I think my techie took it off in an emergency or something, and now I’m afraid to download it in case I do something to my computer.”
It’s hard to see what could happen. Then again, computers is beasts, as we all know.
That aside, RAB is quite right. One episode of Old Harry’s Game, alone, is worth a lot of computer trouble….
I’m bored with her. For a while I’ve been suffering from “Irritable Jowell Syndrome”.
No, that ain’t original either (Private Eye).
Pst! Breaks over! fags out.
I think the management wanted us to have a go at the Jowell.
Not laud the talents of one fine comedian!
“Yeah but no! but yeah! Well It speaks for itself doesn’t it?
I bought a house in 79 for cash, just like Tessa. I still own it.
People cold call me all the time and ask if I’d like to re-morgage. When I tell them I dont have a morgage but am the owner/occupier, they put the phone down on ME! How’s that for marketing? Well the thing is they would rather deal with other companys who own a slice of you , than you yourself.
My point is that it is very difficult to re-morgage a house that has no morgage, yet Tessa did it how many times?
Sorry love’s
Guilty as charged.
Please, she’s not guilty of anything. The Cabinet Secretary and Tony Blair said so.
Bear in mind that here we have here Tessa Jowell who apparently has massive mortgage debts yet pulls in a salary of well in excess of £250,000 per annum, plus about another £50,000 a year in expenses. Her husband’s integrity is now so diminished that his wife has to be excluded from cabinet meetings on Iran, lest any confidential information get back to him, yet this minister is in charge of negotiations with casino bosses for the proposed UK ‘super casinos’, regulating the drinks industry, dealing with media tycoons, the National Lottery and handling the £12bn budget to make London ‘fit’ to host the Olympics.
Didn’t someone make the same joke when Alan Milburn returned to cabinet after having resigned to spend more time with his family? Then there was Blunkett, who resigned to spend more time with someone else’s family…
Yes, Mark Adams. They all said it. It was the inversion which was funny.
Julian – scary isn’t it! I bet Seb Coe was cringing when he had to deal with this entity. What annoyed me is how she was itching to get all the shared glory, yet it seemed obvious she had no real positive input into securing the event, CMIIAW.
People cold call me all the time and ask if I’d like to re-morgage. When I tell them I dont have a morgage but am the owner/occupier, they put the phone down on ME! How’s that for marketing?
yes!