Well Done Esther! Shuker Makes a Shocker!

03-06-2010 10:26 - Source: iaindale.blogspot.com
Maiden speeches are tricky things to get right at the best of times. But if your predecessor is Margaret Moran, it's difficult to pay tribute in the normal effusive way. Unless your name is Gavin Shuker, that is. He's the 28 year old who win the Luton South seat courtesy of Esther Rantzen. Without her intervention, the Tory candidate Nigel Huddlestone would have won. Anyway, young Gavin made his maiden speech yesterday and it turns out his contituents are less than impressed by the way in which he lavished praise on Margaret Moran - well, that's what the local BBC Three Counties Radio are saying. This is what he said about her... Margaret Moran served the people of Luton for 13 years, a position that carries it's own unique pressures, and she deserves recognition as someone who, as part of that significant intake of 1997 Labour members, transformed fundamentally the terms of debate, not just in politics, but in education in particular. I'm not sure that 'lavish' is the word I would describe to use those words, but they've gone down like a cup of cold sick locally. Esther Rantzen must be feeling very proud of herself. - Continue...