James Purnell MP - tipped as a future leader of the Labour Party by some - is a man who likes to control his image.
Remember this is the man who had himself airbrushed into a photo:
So I was amused to get an email from his office this morning:
Dear Sir,
It was recently drawn to my attention that you are using a copyrighted image of James Purnell MP without permission. This violates copyright law. Please remove this image from your blog.
Yours sincerely,
Thomas Hamilton-Shaw
Office of James Purnell MP
It's true: I had. It was here. It's gone. I can't be bothered to fight.
But if you want a definition of pomposity, is this it?
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I’ll have a bet he never ever becomes leader of Labour , before long he will be just a back bencher sitting on his ass saying nothing hoping some body will give him a job as lets say speaker. π π
I bet he’ll cross the floor to the Tories when they win.
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