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Kelvin MacKensie is frit

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Anthony Barnett (London, OK): So it is Sundown for Rupert's boy! True to his bullying nature, Murdoch's man fled at the first whiff of grapeshot.

Today, in a cloying, cowardly columnin the SUN he throws in the gloves: "The truth is that I would have been a cr*p MP. I would have said what I thought and, for the next two years to the General Election, I would have been apologising to all and sundry."

You can say that again big boy!

But this assumes that voters would have elected him. Revealing the contempt that Sun editors have for the public he suggests they would because, "I would have plenty in common with the 70,000 constituents, as 48.6 per cent had one GCSE or fewer — exactly my demographic".

That's one GCSE enough to to call Kelvin's number! He admits there was, "a poll in the Mail on Sunday which put Davis at 67 per cent and me at 14 per cent"

That's 14 percent before they even found out how cr*p he is.

When he announced he was 90per cent certain to stand our own Guy Aitchison said "Bring it on Sunshine!". Why only 90 per cent he asked, what are you scared of?

Now we know - a little bit of democracy would have showed him for the rubbish he is.

Anthony Barnett

Anthony Barnett

Anthony is the honorary president of openDemocracy. He was its founding editor-in-chief (2001-7), the co-director of The Convention on Modern Liberty (2009) and the first director of Charter 88 (1988-95). His most recent books are ‘The Lure of Greatness: England's Brexit and America's Trump’ (2017) and ‘Taking Control!: Humanity and America after Trump and the Pandemic’ (2022). He is a trustee of openTrust. His collected articles can be found on Authory and he posts on X at @AnthonyBarnett

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