Conspiracy theory
BBC News: Blair to miss key ID cards vote
He had been due to return from a summit in Pretoria, but his flight was aborted on take off when the pilot spotted a problem with one of the engines.
Engine trouble. Being of a somewhat cynical mien, my immediate thought was: Yeah, right. I wonder if the Whip’s Office, finally getting its act together, has been in touch. “Don’t come home. We don’t have enough bodies to win the ID card vote. You’ll have lost a vote you personally stamped your authority on.”
Or, of course, it could have been: “No need to rush back, it’s in the bag”.
Posted on February 13th, 2006 at 10:02 am
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Here’s hoping you’re right, Justin.
I wish you had been right
Not to worry. It’s now time to sit back and watch the fun. Spiralling costs, incompetent implementation, recriminations in the press, thousands of dissenters jamming the courts, political careers in tatters. It’s going to be great.
If I had it, I’d put good money on ID cards never seeing the light of day.