Comments on: Save Charles Clarke http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/ The weblog of Brighton-based writer Justin McKeating Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:13:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jawbox » The interior ministry commandos will be along in a bit http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-4678 Jawbox » The interior ministry commandos will be along in a bit Fri, 05 May 2006 19:08:35 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/#comment-4678 [...] 1) Sign up to Justin’s idea of the survivalist compound in the Brecons. 2) Get on the next ferry/plane/Eurostar heading out of the country, to, well, anywhere. 3) Procuring a bottle of whisky and a revolver. [...] [...] 1) Sign up to Justin’s idea of the survivalist compound in the Brecons. 2) Get on the next ferry/plane/Eurostar heading out of the country, to, well, anywhere. 3) Procuring a bottle of whisky and a revolver. [...]

]]> By: Chicken Yoghurt » Like coal for Christmas http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-4618 Chicken Yoghurt » Like coal for Christmas Fri, 05 May 2006 11:55:05 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/#comment-4618 [...] And so it came to pass. [...] [...] And so it came to pass. [...]

]]> By: Alex http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-4442 Alex Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:05:35 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/#comment-4442 Meh. It wasn't Reid who actually drove a coach and horses through it by invading Iraq. That speech could have been summarised as "Dear Chiefs of Staff, I'm not Geoff Hoon, and therefore won't order you to initiate a war of aggression - and if I do I won't go apeshit if Piers Morgan annoys you." Blears, I think, is the driving force at the Home Office - have you noticed how her job has progressively expanded over time? If we give her the keys to the whole thing she'll become prime minister in months. Meh. It wasn’t Reid who actually drove a coach and horses through it by invading Iraq. That speech could have been summarised as “Dear Chiefs of Staff, I’m not Geoff Hoon, and therefore won’t order you to initiate a war of aggression – and if I do I won’t go apeshit if Piers Morgan annoys you.”

Blears, I think, is the driving force at the Home Office – have you noticed how her job has progressively expanded over time? If we give her the keys to the whole thing she’ll become prime minister in months.

]]> By: Justin http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-4441 Justin Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:51:12 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/#comment-4441 <b>Alex</b>: I'll see your "Swastika Bitch" and raise you Reid's <a href="http://www.chickyog.net/2006/02/11/the-case-for-the-defence-secretary/" rel="nofollow">dangerously malleable attitude to international law</a>. Imagine the carnage he could wreak at the Home Office. Alex: I’ll see your “Swastika Bitch” and raise you Reid’s dangerously malleable attitude to international law. Imagine the carnage he could wreak at the Home Office.

]]> By: Alex http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-4440 Alex Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:09:41 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/#comment-4440 Justin, I've thought about this overnight and I think we ought to bury the story. The risk of a successful Reid decapitation making Hazel "Swastika Bitch" Blears Home Secretary is too sickening to even ponder. Since he's been at MOD he's actually changed his mind on substantive issues of policy in response to criticism more than once, a genuinely disturbing idea I'm keen to promote in government. Justin, I’ve thought about this overnight and I think we ought to bury the story. The risk of a successful Reid decapitation making Hazel “Swastika Bitch” Blears Home Secretary is too sickening to even ponder.

Since he’s been at MOD he’s actually changed his mind on substantive issues of policy in response to criticism more than once, a genuinely disturbing idea I’m keen to promote in government.

]]> By: Jim Jay http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-4426 Jim Jay Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:04:03 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/#comment-4426 Hilarious, great post. Hewitt will be needing a job soon, perhaps she could do to prisons what she's done to the NHS... sorry I mean "do for" the prisons, cough Hilarious, great post.

Hewitt will be needing a job soon, perhaps she could do to prisons what she’s done to the NHS… sorry I mean “do for” the prisons, cough

]]> By: Bob B http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-4425 Bob B Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:10:41 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/#comment-4425 During his stint as Labour Party chairman in 2002, Dr John Reid was asked about the generous donation to the Labour Party by Paul Desmond who had been a commercially successful publisher of pornographic magazines. Dr Reid replied: "If you are asking if we are going to sit in moral judgment, in political judgment, on those who wish to contribute to the Labour party, then the answer to that is no." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2357617.stm Which neatly encapsulates those moral ambiguities of the New Labour government then and since. By their own very words ye shall know them and what they do. Obviously, Dr Reid is well equipped to be Home Secretary in a Blair government. Latterly, Alan Johnson, presently the DTI minister, seems to be in the frame to replace Charles Clarke if that becomes politically unavoidable. During his stint as Labour Party chairman in 2002, Dr John Reid was asked about the generous donation to the Labour Party by Paul Desmond who had been a commercially successful publisher of pornographic magazines. Dr Reid replied:

“If you are asking if we are going to sit in moral judgment, in political judgment, on those who wish to contribute to the Labour party, then the answer to that is no.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2357617.stm

Which neatly encapsulates those moral ambiguities of the New Labour government then and since.

By their own very words ye shall know them and what they do. Obviously, Dr Reid is well equipped to be Home Secretary in a Blair government. Latterly, Alan Johnson, presently the DTI minister, seems to be in the frame to replace Charles Clarke if that becomes politically unavoidable.

]]> By: Justin http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-4422 Justin Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:23:20 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/#comment-4422 Time for a good dig and <a href=http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&q=%27Radovan+Karadzic%27+%27john+reid%27 rel="nofollow">one of these</a>, I think. Time for a good dig and one of these, I think.

]]> By: Alex http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-4421 Alex Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:53:37 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/#comment-4421 Hey, I didn't know he was in the "Bosnian genocide is True Socialism" nutter fellowship. He's kept that quiet, no? Hey, I didn’t know he was in the “Bosnian genocide is True Socialism” nutter fellowship. He’s kept that quiet, no?

]]> By: Justin http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-4417 Justin Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:01:39 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/04/26/save-charles-clarke/#comment-4417 <b>Scary</b>: Maybe he's been watching <i>Return of the Jedi</i> again: Arch villain, very much yesterday's man, helps clear up mess he's made. Dies. Scary: Maybe he’s been watching Return of the Jedi again: Arch villain, very much yesterday’s man, helps clear up mess he’s made. Dies.

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