Like coal for Christmas
You popped the cork and downed the first glass. The hulking, monstrous, bullying Clarke sent to take up two or three seats on the backbenches. Another glass! The craven, obsequious, cluster-bombing Straw, not having Clarke’s self-respect, is demoted, humiliated. Another glass! And then, when all the Champagne was gone, you made a terrible discovery.
There was a dead cockroach in the bottom of the bottle.
John Reid. Home Secretary. John Reid.
At least we know why he didn’t get the Foreign Secretary job. Should a certain mass murderer be dug from his hole any time soon, Reid would have had a rather embarrassing conflict of interest.
Nosemonkey says that much of the cabinet reshuffle makes no sense and he has a point. What regard does a Prime Minister show for the issues of foreign affairs and Europe by giving those briefs to Margaret Beckett and Geoff Hoon?
And where is the fresh meat? Is New Labour really this short of new talent? A radical reshuffle? It’s the Bay City Rollers dressed up to look like the Arctic Monkeys. It’s nothing more than a rearranging of the chairs in a care home sunroom in order to give the residents different views and a bit of stimulation while they’re waiting to die. Won’t somebody please fetch John Prescott a cup of milky tea?
But it all comes back to Reid. The gleaming, spitting spider at the centre of the web. This government’s tell-tale heart. John has the upper hand now. A shield to Blair, a rival to Brown. Straw, Blunkett, Clarke – how we hoped against hope that we were weathering the storm. Only now, as it grows dark, do we realise that they were just passing squalls.
With a terrifying ferocity, it has finally started to rain.
Posted on May 5th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
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What regard does a Prime Minister show for the issues of foreign affairs and Europe by giving those briefs to Margaret Beckett and Geoff Hoon?
Er, none. The point is that neither will be a rival to the foreign policy unit gathered round Blair’s sofa.
Other than that, you’re right: Blair does keep managing to appoint Ministers of the Interior who make their predecessor look like Polly Toynbee on Ecstasy. Given Reid flexible attitude to international law, it’s scary what he’ll do re. ‘due process’ and the Human Rights Act.
Rottweiller Reid has been taking lessons from his son’s father in law, catch your opponent off guard then kick the living shit out of him … the Krays were the same, offer a fag, they open their mouth then BBBLLLAAAAAAAAAMMMMM a sock on the chin and a broken jaw.
He has been as mild as a teenager on Ritalin (which may be a key component – forget not, that he is doing double cold trukey on fags’n'booze)and is transformed. We may yet get a Scottish Prime Minister and he won’t be from the Lang Toon.
Blair’s only hope now lies in Germany, we win in the Final 1,0 against Beckenbaurs finest, in extra time when Rooney comes on and scores the winning goal in the dying minutes at the insistence of the PM. “Once more unto …” becomes the Official footie anthem and the Sun special souvenir edition can be found clutched in the hands of pensioners dying of Hypothermia as their gas is cut off in the winter.
Do you think Jack Straws removal anything to do with his negative attitudes to military action and nuclear strikes against Iran?
Well Ewen MacKaskill seems to think it does
My suspicion is that he will overcook it, egged on by oh-so-plausiby-enthusiastic fast-track civil servants who know that the game’s over and just want a few laughs.
OK, it’s more of a hope than a suspicion. But I really think there’s a yawning trap there. The way for him to avoid it would be to say and do very little until he improves his situational awareness.
If the first ‘big idea’ speech happens inside of a month, I say he’s toast.
dont forget that utter nobody Des Browne is now at Defence.
what does this say? well, its quite obvious – you have a Blair-Reid axis.
Reid – home front, Blair – foreign strategy.
The two of them together are a formidable force – and a counter balance to the Brownite camp.
In other words, Blair has pulled off a coup.
Do you want to be protected from terrorism or not you ass?
Basta to your silly foolishness.
nb your mate at Blairwatch has wheedlingly accused me of abusing Rachel, ( slimebag!) because I gave her some genuine advice, which sets my comments apart from his loon-views. I contradicted him and he witheld my comment.
So herewith.
And that’s all I have to say. She’d be alot clearer headed without you nutbags!
I presume that having once been an MEP is Buff Hoon’s qualification for being Europe minister. We have him coming to a conference next week – well it was supposed to be Douglas Alexander, but I presume we’ll get Hoon. Oh joy.
fjl – are you really a professional researcher? I ask because, judging by your barely comprehensible blog, you are barely literate.
Oh, two use of ‘barely’ is a single sentence. That’ll teach me to criticise bad writing. So
I’ll stick to this then; ‘what are you jibbering on about, fjl?’
You seem to demand unquestioning, undemocratic respect for the security services. And you seem to have inserted yourself, in a way that smacks of emotional instability, into the psychological lives of someone you know only through blogs.
Is this correct?
Anyone questionning my research is welcome to come to my blog, where my high standards are evident. I have nothing to say to the loons.
Hight standards of what?
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