Strangely Browne
‘I have expressed a degree of regret than can be equated to an apology‘
For God’s sake. Is there any other walk of life where that kind of talk wouldn’t get you punched in the face? The sooner these dickheads are gone the better.
Posted on April 17th, 2007 at 8:19am under Iran, Iraq, New Labour, T.W.A.T., UK politics
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NuLab politicians’ credo: ‘never say in one word that which can be said in half a dozen or more’ – fourteen in this case! Oh wad some power the giftie giy us. What a total prat.
And what would you put in their place, Justin? Eh? Eh? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, presumably.
ALL HAIL OUR IRANIAN OVERLORDS!
Sir, you are filth.
Come on, Rochenko. You’re just not trying. You need to give me two thousand words backing up your assertion.
To be fair to him, he went on immediately to say “If you want me to say sorry, then I will say sorry.” (or something along those lines), though the sentence you have quoted does feel like it was constructed by someone who has lost the plot somewhat.
I haven’t got the necessary energy/monomania (delete as appropriate).
“I decline the invitation to set out the parameters”
He’s Mr Logic from Viz! And yes, I do remember him getting punched in the face rather a lot.
Heartily seconded…
Chicken Yoghurt – Strangely Browne Still busy. With you shortly…….
Rochenko, if you *mean* corruption with a dash of oppression is the only alternative to outright oppression, then *say* corruption with a dash of oppression is the only alternative to outright oppression.
Tim:
It’s worse than you think. Des B. is the perfect New Labour weapon, a kind of Blairoid T-1000. When I listened to him speak on the radio I could actually see the colours draining out of the world around me.
If speaking Brownian sentences has become the essence of public life, it’s quite hard to care whether you get total repression or just a bit of it leavened with some entertaining corruption.
It does go to show that there’s a limit to how long you can get by on “at least they’re not the Tories”. Though the people who tell us that won’t learn any lessons when they do lose, other than telling us that in future they should be even more like the Tories.
I’m no fan of New Labour, but this quote is being taken out of context – as I recall he went on two seconds later (after the Tories had finished braying like donkeys) to say that if people wanted him to use the word “sorry” he would say “sorry”
He was making a point about the semantics and dancing on a pinhead his opponents had been indulging in.
I suggested, on my site, that they be lynched. We ahven’t had a good lynching for a while.
Mmmm, I thi nk that rather reminds me of what makes me uncomfortable about this whole affair.
It seems to me that practically every political event in britain these days is conducted very much as a press lynching. This time it’s Des Browne, Gordon Brown’s getting the same, you can think of as many examples s you want.
Instead of anything beiong talked through and discussed intelligently, a target is selected who is then attacked and attacked and attacked until they’re knocked down.
It’s no way to conduct politics even if the targets are people who are not only objectionable but ones who have been quite prepared to go along with press hysteria on other occasions where it has suited them politically.
It’s funny that there should be this current fuss about blogs when in fact the greatest single factor in the degradation of British politics is the mainstream press – and not just the tabloids but their more expensive cousins.
he really, really let himself down – if that’s poosible! He did say sorry later but why the ‘expression of regret” boll0cks?