[This isn’t an April Fools joke! Thank fuck]
It looks as though the NoLongerNeoLabourHonest government of Gordon Brown is going to allow protests around Parliament (PDF of proposal). These were banned by the Dear Leader after Iraq war protests. The protests outside Parliament demoralised the NeoLabour sheep within and it made it harder for the Whips to drive them through through Parliament’s voting pens. Any shepherd will tell you: sheep are very hard to drive through gates of any sort when people, let alone voters, are shouting and yelling nearby: they panic (the sheep, that is).
So it is all the more astonishing that Brown has followed through on his promise to repeal one of Bliar’s prime anti civil-liberties anti democracy moves.
One hopes that this is not buggered up in its legislative passage through the Mother of all Democracies.
For one dreadful moment I thought the tone of apparent gratitude, for the mere restoration of a right that we had long taken for granted, heralded signs of a nascent ‘BrownSupporter’ blog taking shape. If such a thing were to come to term, I should be very tempted to cry out in frustration at the ongoing inadequacies of the Radical Islamic Jihad in dealing with those with such aberrant thoughts.
For some reason, that sounds vaguely familiar.
Yes, me too, can’t place the origin though….
not being the worst stands in some rank of praise
That’ll be the influence of Gordon’s new Head of Strategy no doubt. It can only mean that having given us what we are due, they will bring in something we don’t want…like ID cards.
There is no way they are going to be able to bring ID cards in.
I do hope you are wrong. Without a government biometric ID Card how will anyone, especially me, know, feel, that I am truly a citizen. How will we prevent darkies coming to this country? Or stop terrorism paedophilia and drug dealing? OR binge drinking and illegal parking? How will they be able to stop themselves losing our data?
We need ID cards really badly.
I’ve already got my ID card - and very fine it is too. I’ve got a beard, I drink cider and mead, have a deep knowledge of IP Law and I’m 300th in line to The Burmese Throne….
Trawling through other people’s bins can be most profitable.
Meanwhile… I am writing about The Bezerkers. I’m thinking of becoming a Bezerker myself - liven Chiswick up. The Bollo is full of children and middle class bankers on Sundays - and has, for the moment, declined as a place of interest for me…partly because people I know have either been barred or have barred themselves.
I am now haunting Irish bars and The Duke of Sussex…. just for a short while. A change…
Of course I am all in favour of protest but couldn’t they be a bit tidier?
It all falls into place. A barrister, with a degree in Physics, whose blog makes allusions to whipping and other aspects of allied contemporary popular pursuits….
You are Max Mosely and I claim my £5
But I have never driven a car in my life. And as for 5 prostitutes in a bed I very rarely do that nowadays.
Sorry no fiver even if I could afford it.
No you’re not. You’re Max Mosley, but I still want the fiver.
‘I’m thinking of becoming a Bezerker myself’
they drank their own urine you know - if you’ve been at the cheap rioja you’ll not find it a problem.
i’m max mosley and i want a fivesome