Comments on: Bailiffs: damn the restraint with with faint praise http://www.chickyog.net/2009/03/21/bailiffs-damn-the-restraint-with-with-faint-praise/ The weblog of Brighton-based writer Justin McKeating Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:03:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: redpesto http://www.chickyog.net/2009/03/21/bailiffs-damn-the-restraint-with-with-faint-praise/comment-page-1/#comment-44363 redpesto Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:40:22 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=4863#comment-44363 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) 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)

]]> By: Fellow Traveller http://www.chickyog.net/2009/03/21/bailiffs-damn-the-restraint-with-with-faint-praise/comment-page-1/#comment-44361 Fellow Traveller Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:30:20 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=4863#comment-44361 Labour's new electoral strategy consists of threatening to kill puppies if you don't vote for it. Labour’s new electoral strategy consists of threatening to kill puppies if you don’t vote for it.

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