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Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 1:37 pm

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  1. ejh (242 comments.) on 01.05.2008 at 17:07 Permalink | Reply

    Guido really should know his limits

    ho ho

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  2. Alex (37 comments.) on 02.05.2008 at 13:11 Permalink | Reply

    I’ve made this point before; there is a current in Toryism that has a bizarre obsession with southern Africa. For Guido, especially, this is as they say no accident. But I remember people blurging about “ZaNuLabour” right back to 1999. Boris Johnson claimed in print that Stephen Byers’ renationalisation of Railtrack was as bad as Robert Mugabe.

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    1. Justin on 02.05.2008 at 13:16 Permalink | Reply

      And it’s a kind hysterical hyperbole that they don’t permit others to use. That ‘ZaNuLabour’ thing is adolescent but anybody tries comparing the Tories to some unsavoury regime and it’s very clear they can dish it but not take it.

  3. ejh (242 comments.) on 02.05.2008 at 15:02 Permalink | Reply

    there is a current in Toryism that has a bizarre obsession with southern Africa

    Much of is it sitting in the Pavilion Stand whenever you go to Lord’s.

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  4. ejh (242 comments.) on 02.05.2008 at 16:44 Permalink | Reply

    Boris Johnson claimed in print that Stephen Byers’ renationalisation of Railtrack was as bad as Robert Mugabe.

    I suspect however that this is more to do with the absolute horror of property owners that anybody might interfere, however mildly, with the right of property ownership (and disposal etc). You don’t have to go very far right before people start assuming that liberty is not only indivisible from the right to property but actually derives from it in the first place. It can sometimes be hard to distinguish the hysteria from the ideology.

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