More considered remarks will follow. Right now I'm just enjoying the moment.
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Saltah'na
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What do you expect? I hear when Clinton was reelected, he also went through a massive overhaul of his staff too.
Over here, Martin has basically overhauled his staff so much that almost everyone now on his senior cabinet are people who I have never heard of.
Nothing new here.
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Basically this is a victory for the right-wing press in the UK. . . but no-one else. Yes, the guy himself was so conservative he made Blair look like a member of the Labour Party, and his departure is no great loss for the nation. But what the Mail and the Telegraph have actually done is to fuck their preferred party, the Conservatives: after this, no-one in public office will ever be able to do a favour for anyone ever again, and why else would any Conservative want to be in power but to help themselves?
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I agree with Lee to a substantial extent. I disagreed with virtually all Blunkett's policies; what he did to get the Mail all worked up wasn't all that bad but it was the sort of thing that Labour used to have a go at the Tories for. I would also like to replace 'Conservative' in Lee's final sentence with 'politician'.
I'm looking forward to Cecil Parkinson, Shagger Norris and Boris coming out in support of Blunkett...
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quote:Originally posted by Saltah'na: What do you expect? I hear when Clinton was reelected, he also went through a massive overhaul of his staff too.
Er, yeah, but Blair hasn't been reelected. Well, he has, but not recently.
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Sorry, I can't even finish that sentence without laughing.
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I was going to vote for them until 1. they fired Boris Johnson from the front bench who is the only charistmatic torie in existence (despite me not sharing most of his political views what he said about Liverpool was completely justified and since when was adultery a crime? We all know that the was the real reason he got fired;) and 2. I remembered what their European policy was.
Blunkett's tough policy on immigration was something I rather enjoyed but his anti-terror laws took things way too far, this is not the fear stricken US.
You know what the test immigrants have to take now is? They have to know how to claim benefits, how to take employers to tribunals for compensation, what their rights are under the HRA'98 (human rights act) (though this is really something WE should know - let alone immigrants) there is a section explaining our history and the major events but it won't be on the test so it's completely pointless. Let's teach immigrants how to scrounge off an overburdened welfare state - nice idea there Sir Bernard Crick.
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The Tories have a European policy?
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Saltah'na
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and I thought you guys were talking about Bush....
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Did you know this Fortier woman once described Michael Howard as attractive? I think she just has a thing for Home Secretaries. Charles had better look out!
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quote:Originally posted by Marauth: what he said about Liverpool was completely justified
Just out of curiousity, how?
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..and for that matter, who in their right mind would name a place "Liverpool"?
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He said that everyone in Liverpool was a whining git (well, that was the gist of it anyway). Actually it wasn't even Boris who wrote that piece; he just stood by his decision to publish it.
I don't know why Liverpool is called Liverpool and don't really care. It's not exactly up there with names like Spittal in the Street or Wagga-Wagga, is it?
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It was shortly after a Liverpudlian in Iraq (David Kelly, I think) was captured by extremists. He was held captive for several days, with them threatening him constantly. And then they decapitated him and showed it on one of the Arab news channels.
There was a day of mourning in Liverpool. And the Specator (right-wing publication edited by said Boris Johnson) said that everyone in Liverpool was, as, Wraith put it, "a whining git". Which was possibly just a touch harsh, quite insensitive, and policitally a fucking stupid thing to do.
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