General Election 2015

[El Kabong]

@El Kabong

Q. : Ed, you put the Boston Red Sox website on your desert island discs. Where does your interest in baseball come from?

A. I lived in Boston when I was seven for a year, then more when I was twelve, I went there for a term of junior high school when my dad was teaching there. And that made me a fanatic. And the Boston Red Sox have this amazing story because in some ways they bear some resemblance to the Labour Party because they won the world series in I think 1918, and they sold their most famous player Babe Ruth, and they didn’t win it again until 2004, they sold him to their arch-rivals the New York Yankees, who won something like nineteen world championships in between. It was known as the curse of the Babe because they’d sold their most famous player. And what’s even more extraordinary about them is that they came very close to winning on a whole number of occasions in that 86 year period. So it’s an amazing story of disaster and then redemption. In a way it’s slightly less exciting being a Boston Red Sox fan since 2004, since they won, because the curse has been lifted. But nevertheless, I’m still a fanatic.

Q. So who’s your Babe Ruth then, in the Labour Party?

A. What, the star player that I think we sold? There’s been quite a lot of best Prime Ministers we never had, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, lots of people who spent a lot of time out of power. That’d be the sort of parallel.

#1 It's Curse of The Bambino, which was dreamed up by ASSHAT Dan Shaughnessy

#2 It's certainly NOT less exciting being a Red Sox fan and watching them win the World Series on multiple occasions.

#3 Who is this "Ed" fellow?

[superheavyrhun]

#3 Who is this "Ed" fellow?

This question is one that far too many voters in the UK have to ask, which is why he's not likely to get an outright majority. He's the leader of the Labour Party.