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The Sharpener: Talk amongst yourselves, we couldn’t possibly comment

None of this is simple for politicians to discuss. Arguments have to be clear and careful. None readily tabloidize. But if party hacks are wondering about electoral disaffection, they could start by interrogating their own eagerness to abdicate. While they’re happy to confine health debates to PCTs and the small print of dentistry contracts, the politics of abortion is happening without them.

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Posted on October 4th, 2006 at 10:25am under Chicken Nuggets, Human rights, Science and progress, UK politics

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  1. But we don’t do that sort of thing here. We’re British. « Not Saussure on 04.10.2006 at 13:59

    [...] Via Chicken Yoghurt, a discussion by Donald, of The Jarndyce Blog, a piece in The Sharpener called Talk amongst yourselves, we couldn’t possibly comment about why abortion’s a non-issue in British politics. One word absolutely not on the lips of political hacks, not even Tory political hacks, is… Abortion. Not this week, not any week. It’s impolite conversation inside the beltway. [...]

  2. City Slicker (2 comments.) on 04.10.2006 at 22:43 Permalink | Reply

    Great blog
    So glad I found you
    Will be back

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