Ill Met by moonlight
Does Sir Ian Blair, Metropolitan Police commissioner, have any time to do any actual, y’know, policing? He seems to spend so much time putting the wind up the public these days that, if he was in any other profession, his boss would be saying, “do that on your own time, Blair, not the company’s.”
He’s been at it again tonight in his Dimbleby Lecture . (How many hearts must have sank at “During the next 40 minutes…”)
Is this his job? What he’s paid to do? I, and others, would argue that it is not.
And how about this?
The sky is dark…
Ring any bells? It’s the same gothic imagery he used in his last piece of scaremongery, published in The Sun, during his failed attempt to interfere in the parliamentary debate of the new terrorism legislation.
He’s obviously very pleased with the metaphor. Maybe it comes from a poem he wrote as a teenager (”Why do all the nice girls hate me?” or somesuch) and somebody said, “Oooh, Ian. I don’t know how you do it but you paint the picture so vividly”. That stayed with him and ever since he’s been dying to use the phrase again. And again.
It makes you wonder what’s next from Britain’s Top Cop. Maybe he could embark on a busking tour (as long as he’s got his busking licence) of the London Underground, regaling commuters with a rendition of “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall“. Hours of fun to be had writing his set list. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It.
Posted on November 16th, 2005 at 8:55 pm
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Dare I suggest maybe some Smiths?
‘Panic on the streets of London,
Panic on the streets of Carlisle…’
the way you broke down his ’sky is dark’ imagery had me in stitches…
I was half expecting him to appear in the line-up for “I’m a celebrity…”
I’m loving your witty anti-Blair sentiments.
Britain’s most influential Stopper, you know.
Gothic images and the creation of a country based on fear allow those in power to exert control without question. The gradual undermining of accountability and democracy is what the terrorists want isn’t it?
Last night on This Week, Rod Liddle like also asked where next for Sir Ian Blair, Celebrity Come Dancing? Great little on-screen image to go with the gag.
Now that’d be a good use of his ahem, “talent”.
Quite right. If police chiefs get used to explaining their ideas to the public, what next? Worst case outcome: no more whinging about police being secretive.
Sazza, you’ll have to expand on your point. It was largely obscured by what I took to be biting sarcasm.
Much better said than what I managed, *claps*. Must learn to be more succinct. And funnier.