Good news for Labour?
This post on Samizdata is a good example of the risks in making sporting predictions,"England play Ireland at Twickenham this afternoon – and are looking good"
Now let's not be harsh on the author, it would be a dull world where nobody made sporting predictions and he admits it leaves him with egg on his face. Yet England's defeat does raise some issues mentioned in another post by the same author before the rugby world cup, when in a bizarre post he said,
" Basically, it would suit the Conservatives if the England rugby team were to triumph, while many Labour supporters would probably prefer England to make a humiliatingly early exit...The England rugby team now gives off the precise atmosphere of teamwork, toughness, modesty, effectiveness, confidence-without-arrogance, upward economic mobility, emotional commitment, patriotism and yet non-toffness and non-ghastliness that the Conservative Party is trying to radiate, or ought to be trying to radiate if it knows what's good for it. If England do shine as brightly as they well could in this World Cup, it will be one more little boost for the Conservatives, and one more little nail in the coffin of the New Labour project."
So presumably yesterday was a good day for Labour.
posted by Matthew @ 3/07/2004 06:00:00 PM
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