Peter Oborne celebrates Tory backbenchers' meek acceptance of Dave's enthusiasm for things EU, as a sign that the coalition is shaping up to be a great reforming government in the mould of Asquith's, Attlee's and Thatcher's. Doubtless they weren't vain and stupid enough to put a personal photographer and a stylist on the state payroll.
Amid increasing evidence that the emergency services fouled up on 7/7, we now learn that the security services were slow in their communication with the Germans about the ink cartridge bomb. So that's another failing, in addition to not telling the PM about it for several hours, and the police not finding it first time around.
Kowtowing to Europe turns out to mean giving imprisoned murderers, rapists and pedophiles the vote. Damian Grieve may be disappointed by the ruling, but that's what can happen when you surrender sovereignty. It may make Dave feel ill but frankly I don't care - if he really is feeling my pain on this, it's only because government policy caused it. And Abu Hamza has won his appeal against government attempts to strip him of his British passport.
Channel 4's programme about what the Greens got wrong was notable for being ghetto broadcasting for different types of greenies, with George Monbiot allowed to tell his usual half truths in the discussion programme without challenge. A smug and self-satisfied gathering. Over at the BBC John Simpson has compared the licence fee settlement to experiencing waterboarding. Peter Allen on Drive said the midterm elections had produced "not a good result", and now overpaid, mediocre presenters including Huw Edwards, Fiona Bruce and Martha Kearney are striking to keep the final salary pensions which are unaffordable in the private sector. Let them leave, then.
Police say every time a hardened criminal climbs on his roof when they want to interview him they have to call out the fire service, an ambulance, and a helicopter, in case the poor dear slips and sues them. By all means call the fire service and then give him twenty minutes to get down again before turning the hoses on him.
Oborne says this was the coalition's best week yet.
2 comments:
The prisoners' votes thing came from the European Convention on Human Rights, NOT the European Union. These organisations, despite both having the word "Europe" in their names, are NOT THE SAME THING.
The former was an organisation set up to try to curb petty totalitarianism in governments in the wake of World War 2; silly little things like imprisonment without trial and pretty much all of NuLabour's anti-terrorist legislation.
The latter is a Soviet-style metastasizing empire, currently in the process of dying from economic fuckups.
Do try to keep the two separate in your mind. The European Convention on Human Rights is by and large a good idea; the EU is not.
I deliberately said "Kowtowing to Europe". I didn't confuse this with the EU.
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