yeah,it's called hypocrisy

a bit like when the mighty Mr Kinnock a one time staunch anti European and dedicated Euro sceptic decided to feather his nest with the cosy (and well paid) EU Commissioners job - to make it worse he even got his missus a cosy little number in Brussels to boot !

they are all the bloody same !

wish he would sod off back to the Merchant Navy ....


they are all the same mate - bunch of self ed barstewards

it's even worse in france especially within the masonic lodges - even the uk equivalents won't touch them due to the corruption & nepotism etc - it makes me sick...

So, according to Standee & sanjunien:

If you're poor and socialist, you're jealous

If you're rich and socialist, you're a hypocrite

How?

He said he would never take a seat in the Upper House, and then did! (popular belief is that he did so because he'd cheated on Pauline and it was his way of apologising to her)

Because of what happened to the pound when it was in the ERM, I think you mean.
i.e. Lamont sat in his office without even a TV to watch the currency markets and, as runners kep coming in to tell how much further the pound had fallen, kept throwing money at it, impotently waiting and waiting for instructions from the equally vacuous Major who didn't even contact him.
Then Lamont had the brass neck to say he'd never actually been keen on the ERM anyway ... didn't stop him from taking the job did it?

Yeah ... I think Blair had a point about Tory economic credibility after that, actually.