And another thing…
In his speech yesterday, Blair said this:
“For eight years I have battered the criminal justice system to get it to change.”
Battered. Battered as in fish or battered as in wives, I wonder? What mental image was he trying to conjure with that, and what mental image did Blair himself have as he said it?
Did he see himself kicking a defenceless old lady around a room, perhaps?
And what was with the beatitudinal, “They rise by the patient courage of the change-maker“?
The change-makers are patient, are they? Does that mean we can expect Blair to disband his whips office and take the time to persuade rebellious MPs on the merits of his polices instead of using threats? Can we expect the use of the guillotine in parliamentary debates to be abandoned by this government allowing those debates as much time as they need? How about, allowing ID Card protesters their say? After all, if the argument for the cards is so strong, why not have some patient courage and resist the need to stifle dissent?
Or is it just Gordon Brown who has to be patient and, in the face of his dismal aspirations rushing down the toilet, courageous?
UPDATE: Uh huh, oh yeah.
Posted on September 28th, 2005 at 7:49am under Uncategorized
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There was a passage in his speech where he talked about leading a “grown-up Britain”. Could there be a more inappropriate place for a nanny state than a “grown-up” country?
No, evidently just manhandling a defenceless old man out of the conference hall for the heinous crime of heckling Jack Straw. Oh, and then arresting him under the Anti-Terrorism act.
Lovely. Nice to know our civil liberties are safe, eh?
The treatment of the old man showed how morally bankrupt New Labour are. What sort of world is it when seasoned politicians have to be protected from a bit of light heckling from an octogenarian?
This lot are without backbone. They spin and lie to hold on to power. Meanwhile, our ‘democracy’ is fast becoming an illusion.
In Blair, we have been treated to the reemergence of the ‘boneless wonder.’