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Saga of a woman old enough to know better who lets her life be governed by the ridiculous hobby of breeding and showing dogs, musing on life, the twenty first century, Cameron and his mini-me, and the occasional sheep.
"IN DOG YEARS, I`M DEAD"
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
VOTE FOR LENTIL!
It`s election week. And like countless others, I`m not excited.
Not much on offer. No bright new horizons. Several tired offers.
Our local MP, in a very safe seat, is a typical local Labour thicko who makes Mr Lentil look like a Nobel laureate. (Mr Lentil is better looking too.)
I feel Blair has to go. It`s obvious that he lied us into war. That`s history. What matters is his willingness to lie us into another whenever Bush requires it. And of course to suspend habeas corpus and take us down the road we tried in Ireland thirty years ago with disastrous results. The silly bugger is too busy imagining his place in the history books to actually go and read some.
But the alternative had better not be the Conservative effort at being Neocon, playing on fear to subdue the people and make them docile.. That American import doesn`t work too well on us anyway. We are brought up to mistrust politicians. And we have long memories. In this area babies in the cradle are taught to fear revivals of Thatcherism, not immigrants or terrorists.
I`m really more interested in releasing the Labour stranglehold on Scotland, particularly in the Scottish parliament, and this election won`t do that. We need to be rid of the people who are proposing that in Scotland any building project deemed “of strategic national importance” will in future be free of any possibility of objections and go though automatically. There`s a beauty! It takes us into the shadowy world of huge expensive projects dripping with bungs and backhanders, (a world familiar to all too many of our MSPs), and also foreshadows probable Labour policy of returning to nuclear power – and where else would you site all the iffy reactors but in Scotland? After all, if there`s a British Chernobyl you don`t want real people in the home counties getting hurt.
I`m old enough to remember the late Jo Grimond commenting in the House on the demise of Battersea Power Station and asking if its generating capacity would have to be replaced.
Indeed it would, he was told.
Then would he be seeing it replaced on that site by a modern (Magnox at that time) nuclear power station?
Embarrassed silence.
Personally I wouldn`t mind seeing the cellars of the Commons used as a repository for toxic waste………
……..But that`s just me.
I suppose I`d better vote. I`ll fit it in between washing dogs for Birmingham at the weekend.
Not much on offer. No bright new horizons. Several tired offers.
Our local MP, in a very safe seat, is a typical local Labour thicko who makes Mr Lentil look like a Nobel laureate. (Mr Lentil is better looking too.)
I feel Blair has to go. It`s obvious that he lied us into war. That`s history. What matters is his willingness to lie us into another whenever Bush requires it. And of course to suspend habeas corpus and take us down the road we tried in Ireland thirty years ago with disastrous results. The silly bugger is too busy imagining his place in the history books to actually go and read some.
But the alternative had better not be the Conservative effort at being Neocon, playing on fear to subdue the people and make them docile.. That American import doesn`t work too well on us anyway. We are brought up to mistrust politicians. And we have long memories. In this area babies in the cradle are taught to fear revivals of Thatcherism, not immigrants or terrorists.
I`m really more interested in releasing the Labour stranglehold on Scotland, particularly in the Scottish parliament, and this election won`t do that. We need to be rid of the people who are proposing that in Scotland any building project deemed “of strategic national importance” will in future be free of any possibility of objections and go though automatically. There`s a beauty! It takes us into the shadowy world of huge expensive projects dripping with bungs and backhanders, (a world familiar to all too many of our MSPs), and also foreshadows probable Labour policy of returning to nuclear power – and where else would you site all the iffy reactors but in Scotland? After all, if there`s a British Chernobyl you don`t want real people in the home counties getting hurt.
I`m old enough to remember the late Jo Grimond commenting in the House on the demise of Battersea Power Station and asking if its generating capacity would have to be replaced.
Indeed it would, he was told.
Then would he be seeing it replaced on that site by a modern (Magnox at that time) nuclear power station?
Embarrassed silence.
Personally I wouldn`t mind seeing the cellars of the Commons used as a repository for toxic waste………
……..But that`s just me.
I suppose I`d better vote. I`ll fit it in between washing dogs for Birmingham at the weekend.
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