The Levy Lark
All good fun. Let’s hope there were a few squeaky bums in Downing Street yesterday. In the absence of anybody in authority with the balls to go on the record, twice-disgraced ex-minister David Blunkett was wheeled out last night to defend what’s left of New Labour’s honour (I wonder how many people the party approached before they were forced to ask a man sacked twice for corruption).
He demonstrated that sight is not the only sense he lacks. His senses of perspective and irony are also impaired:
Some MPs questioned the timing of the arrest, and the former home secretary, David Blunkett, last night urged investigators to be “thorough rather than theatrical”.
Two hundred and fifty coppers kicking down the door and shooting you. Now that’s theatrical.
To strain Blunkett’s analogy, the Forest Gate raid was a particularly hysterical performance of Aida with all the trimmings. In comparison, the Levy arrest is more like The Dumb Waiter with Levy playing Ben and Tony Blair as Gus.
Posted on July 13th, 2006 at 7:56am under Sleaze, UK politics
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