Reader mikeb sent through an advance review of this controversial new book by former Labour Cabinet Minister Michael Bassett. Here’s mikeb’s review in full.
Dr Michael Bassett is widely considered by experts to be the most important and influential historian of his generation so it is most apt that he has chosen as his subject former Labour cabinet MP Dr Michael Bassett, who is widely considered by experts to be the most important and influential political thinker of his generation.
The subject of this book is the 1984 Bassett government – or as left-wing Orwellian revisionists have dubbed it, the Lange government. Bassett draws on the detailed notes Bassett wrote about Bassett’s crucial role in the Bassett government, casting great light on the relationship between Bassett and his loyal political apprentice David Lange.
The sections of the book in which Lange is seduced and then destroyed by his speech writer, suspected Stasi agent Margaret Pope are some of the most moving passages Bassett has ever written in his long, remarkable glittering career – it is clear why many highly respected and important experts consider Bassett such a highly respected and important political historian.
Bassett does an excellent job of reminding us what a worthless little whore Pope really was. She wanted Bassett too, of course. Gagged for it. Begged. On her knees. Like a dog. A bitch in heat. They’re all like that you know – desperate and clutching and evil. But she couldn’t have him. Not Bassett. Not Bassett.
The book also sheds light on dismal nobody Helen Clark, who is vicious and cunning enough to get ahead – in that way that woman are – but essentially just as worthless as Pope and all the rest of them.
Bassett also touches on some of the other dimensions to his fascinating and brilliant subject and dispels all the malign gossip and rumours you’ve heard about his private life which are totally not true, no matter how many emails and digital photos that snake Nicky Hagar claims he has.
This is a fitting start to the decades of work that lie ahead of us in studying and understanding the work of this historic statesman. The ungrateful sheep-like people of New Zealand owe Bassett a debt they can never repay.
That Hager always seems to have a pile of emails and photos. I thought downloading that stuff was illegal.
Comment by ZenTiger — June 10, 2008 @ 3:57 pm |
Indeed, the Police e-crime unit should be onto stuff that like a.s.a.p!
Comment by writeups — June 10, 2008 @ 6:42 pm |