Chivalry is dead and Jack Straw killed it...

Chivalry is dead and Jack Straw killed it, according to Foreign Secretary David Miliband in a speech that he made on his recent trip to America. The comments came in reference to a 2006 incident which saw Straw, Miliband's predecessor, forcing Condoleezza Rice to sleep on the floor whilst he took her bed. The slippery bastard.

Miliband deemed Straw's actions as being 'pathetic', much to the amusement of bespectacled American politicians in search of that old English wit, and recalled a trip that he made with Miss Rice to Afghanistan in which he "heroically slept in a back seat".

Thousands of American school girls are now expected to spend their time staring longingly at the pictures of Miliband that they will hang on their bedroom walls...

Straw supporters have defended his decision to annex Rice's bed by saying that he was sick with a cold at the time and wouldn't have made it through the night if he'd followed the codes of chivalry. Rice didn't seem like she was too bothered, brushing the incident off as being OK. Perhaps she was just being polite though.

There has been talk of Straw replacing Gordon Brown as head of the Labour Party should it become necessary. Is there really any chance of such a stuffy prick being the leader of the country? Probably not, after today's Crewe by-election results.

The thought of it certainly makes us shudder though...

Written by Oli Anderson on 23 May 2008 11:27 AM. Permalink