Bailiffs: damn the restraint with with faint praise
Tom Harris MP is annoyed that bloggers haven’t noticed the fact that New Labour has backed away from its proposal to let bailiffs break into people’s homes and hit them.
Well, I noticed, but while I believe in credit where credit’s due, it’s not as if New Labour are overturning an existing law, is it? What they’re actually doing is crawling away from one of their own disgusting policy ideas.
It’s a bit like a violent drunk expecting praise because he rolled home from the pub tonight and thought better of smacking the wife for once. These people really are desperate for votes, aren’t they?
And it’s not as if the idea has gone away forever either…
But the Ministry of Justice said such a change will not now be considered until the industry is regulated in 2012.
We’ll hang on to our plaudits for a year or three yet, Mr Harris, if you don’t mind.
(Via James Graham on Twitter)
Posted on March 21st, 2009 at 7:41pm under Eye Catching Initiatives, New Labour
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Labour’s new electoral strategy consists of threatening to kill puppies if you don’t vote for it.
That’s not a new strategy – it’s been there all along: ‘we had to kill the puppy because if we didn’t do it, then the Tories would kill it in a really nasty way’.
PS: Justin – the ‘New Labour as wifebeater’ trope, offensive as it is, still gets to the heart of how Blair (let alone the rest of them) have operated over the last decade and a bit. (It also explains why the next election will be a choice between the bad and the worse)