Comments on: Blunkett Resignation rules the airwaves

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:40:55 +0000

Every place has its advantages & disadvantages, Nick. One thing I learned is that you can’t emigrate to escape your troubles–you pack them in your suitcase and they emigrate right along with you.

I emigrated after marrying a lovely boy from Woodcote, and considering the last few years’ events, I think I won the which-of-us-moves coin toss. Besides, I moved from South Carolina. I wasn’t living anywhere glamourous that you would go to on holiday.

FWIW the political situation back home is worse in my opinion (they’re planning on central-government biometric ID cards there soon as well, so even that advantage is going). After all, here the god-botherers aren’t running the show, and you don’t have to be middle class to be able to go see a doctor. That’s why I’m a bookseller now and not a social worker.

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By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:19:52 +0000

Lori – are you sure you really want to live here? Most of the people I know have either left or are in the process of removing themselves! And I’m heavyly thinking about going myself. 33 years in this country may have been a little to long. But then I may be a little pessimistic about the whole thing.

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By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:05:10 +0000

It’s a bit late, but Michael, I have been resident in the UK for several years, as my bio attests on Livejournal. I’m applying for citizenship this year.

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By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:16:26 +0000

Surfing for much needed inside info on the Blunkett scandal I came across this page – just what is about these oversexed people at the
Spectator? Odone, Liddle, Johnson, Blunkett, Kimberley and now Simon Hoggart … Is it tit for tat? If it is who started it?
Ta

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By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:26:48 +0000

‘And talking of Marys in the Spectator, what is that Mary Wakefield on about? Paganism is not a polite term for witchcraft. It is the term used to designate the religious beliefs current in the Ancient World – particularly in Greece and Rome. At least that is what the term means to any educated person. I’d have thought Boris, as a classicist, would have been able to put her straight on that.’

Hear, hear – so that would encompass any system of belief up to whom Plutonius I would think. It’s amazing how much the fathers of the church plagiarised neo-plutonic thought. Sometimes one has to wonder if the church itself was almost pagan.

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By: Jozef Imrich

Jozef Imrich — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:52:18 +0000

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.
-Ronald Reagan

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By: Mark Gamon

Mark Gamon — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:46:40 +0000

Oh lord but I’m bored (with Blunkett).

I’m one beer into the afternoon here so please forgive the incoherence that follows, but the really sad thing about the Blunkett resignation (it seems to me) is that he went for all the wrong reasons. I don’t CARE about impregnating someone else’s wife. I don’t CARE about the nonsense with the train ticket. I don’t CARE whether he said bad things about his cabinet colleagues (sorry Boris).

I DO care that he was an incompetent education secretary who forced through unnecessary changes for no better reason than to show us he was there. And I DO care that he’s been a hysterical and secretive Home Secretary who seems unable to understand that saying something’s true just because the intelligence services say so just ain’t good enough for most of us. It might have been the correct way to behave in 1940 but not now. The world has changed, and government ought to have changed with it.

OK. I admit it. I’m a bit drunk. Belgian beer will make me rant, even on a Conservative website. Happy Christmas, y’all…

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By: melissa

melissa — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 00:09:15 +0000

Too true Mike: “Tone thinks he is a straight kinda guy” – such is his consummate skill

What a lot has happened over the last few weeks in politics. How many more eye-popping suprises in store before the next election??? the blue pom pom Tories will score a few when the time comes – no doubt.

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By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:04:11 +0000

And talking of Marys in the Spectator, what is that Mary Wakefield on? Paganism is not a polite term for witchcraft. It is the term used to designate the religious beliefs current in the Ancient World – particularly in Greece and Rome. At least that is what the term means to any educated person. I’d have thought Boris, as a classicist, would have been able to put her straight on that.

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By: mike

mike — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:28:08 +0000

Tony has assured us that Blunkers ‘leaves office with his integrity intact.’ So that’s OK then – misuse of public funds, misuse of office, misuse of civil servants, impregnating somebody else’s wife (twice?), attacking a heavily pregnant woman in the courts,giving a factually incorrect explanation of the visa fast-tracking,hanging on to office until caught out by a paper trail, then going on telly to claim he was sacrificing his career for the sake of ‘that little lad’ (who would apparently be grateful for this in later life!) – but Tone thinks his integrity is intact. But then Tone thinks that he himself is a ‘pretty straight kinda guy’.

Don’t you just love these New Labour redefinitions?

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