Today, two of the most vitriolic and childish point-scoring right wing blogs complain about…
This whole row illustrates the problem we have in this country. It is impossible to have a rational debate…
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It astounding what can actually pass for political discourse sometimes.
Suddenly, instead of the usual mindless playground name calling we find these two suddenly turn into heavyweight political analysts and are complaining about the level of political bloody discourse.
The words “hissy” and “fit” come to mind (errrm, unless that’s sexist).
Do we want a health service run by doctors or run by insurance lawyers and big business? After several weeks of ruminating on Mekong Hannan’s ripe vitriol Cameron et Crew came out against. Hardly a ringing endorsement of the NHS, God bless her!
The hypocrisy is quite amusing really, if a little sickening.
As usual our Tory equivocators have a blind spot when it becomes clear just who they are allying themselves with (Polish crypto-fascists anyone?), in this case NHS detractors over the pond.
Best line of the week has to go to the editorial in the Investor’s Business Daily that “Stephen Hawking would be dead if he were British” as reported in The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/hawking_british_and_alive/).
Bright people these Yankee conservatives, that’s right up there with Dubya’s “The trouble with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.”