New Labour modernisation
A step backwards, in all senses:
Mr Straw handed the speech over to Her Maj and restored the tradition of walking backwards and down the steps. If he had ever dreamed, while a student activist, that he would one day be dressed up as an extra in A Man For All Seasons, paying full-bottomed obeisance to his Queen, he might have woken up screaming.
Straw really is an obsequious little tick, isn’t he? Did he ever meet an arse he couldn’t kiss?
Posted on November 7th, 2007 at 9:12 am
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He really is an obsequious little tick, isn’t he? Did he ever meet an arse he couldn’t kiss?
His own, but that’s work-in-progress (or, in New Labour-speak, an ‘aspiration’)
And now we hear that we`ll have to get on board the `detention without charge` rollercoaster again, now that the Home Secretaryoid has given go-ahead to seek a doubling of the current 28 days.
How many times do you think the Neu Labour slugs will keep bringing this back until they get the result they want?
How many times do you think the Neu Labour slugs will keep bringing this back until they get the result they want?
n+90=result+x
Where n=the number before they actually do, x=the number of days over 90 they’ll go for after that, given the repeated claims of precautionary measures and growing ‘complexity’ of cases. In other words, they’ll keep trying, and then some.