Peter Hain: speech is now half-price.
Ranking up there with Stephen Pound MP’s Freudian slip about Tony Blair…
If this was anything to do with trying to appeal to the electorate, he wouldn’t be so excruciatingly honest.
…we now have:
That’s Welsh Secretary Peter Hain making himself not so much a hostage to fortune as allowing fortune to truss him up, throw him in a ditch and rake him with machine gun fire.
There are many questions you could ask of this statement, not least “does Hain really believe that?” and “would he have said were there not a byelection coming up in Blaenau Gwent?”. We need not detain ourselves here by rehearsing the many examples of this government’s selective hearing.
Anyway. Political scientists, pollsters, philosophers and psychologists wishing to make a name for themselves should rush to the Welsh constituency. It has suddenly become a huge real world laboratory for testing the impact that Big Lie propaganda has on a population.
Posted on May 8th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
| See also • Words fail John Prescott yet again • Hain: At it again • Peter Hain’s Back Door |
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Note the word “listen.” Oh yes, the second law of politics is “Having listened, find a very (im)plausible reason for ignoring the people.”
Which makes sense when the people overwhelmingly believe in democracy but also in a hereditary monarchy. Who believe that touching a box (on Noel Edmonds vehicle) can change it’s contents. That astrology will tell them what is going to happen to them that day (along with about a twelfth of the population).
Great Bolg, by the way!