Terror ‘priority’ if Brown is PM
– BBC
Never a truer word. He wants us to be afraid. I for one am going to cooperate on that one point.
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I also was chortling this morning at the clumsy (and I presume) unintended meaning of this BBC headline. As they are known to read this blog, any bets on how long they’ll take to change the unhappy choice of words here?
Tuscan, you mean there are people at the BBC who can actually read?
Jonathan, of course they can read. What the lack is the capability to analyse, interpret and dissent.
Ooops. Sloppy comment by me – the BBC galley slaves will read it, but of course there’ll be various consultants to do the actual analysis, interpretation, etc.
You don’t think BBC writers aren’t getting a little tired of the
insecurity agenda, too?Yes, Mr Brown is bad. Also I suspect that Guy Herbert would agree that Mr Reid is at least as bad.
Almost certainly worse, but I wasn’t aware I had a choice.
Good point Guy. Yes we have no choice over who the next Prime Minister is.
Even voting for a political party and seeing it win does not mean that its leader will stay Prime Minister. I did not vote Conservative in 1987 to see John Major as Prime Minister in 1990.
A big spending Lambeth councillor (ruining the chances of the Conservative party in this area of London), one of Barber’s boys at the bank and in the Conservative party, and then one of the people who forced Britain (against the judgement of Mrs Thatcher) into the E.R.M.
His time as Prime Minister “we have spent more money than Labour promised to spend” and “we must be at the heart of Europe” was not what I voted for.
Did the people who voted Labour in 2001 (the smallest percentage of people voting for the party of government in modern history anyway) really want Mr Brown or Mr Reid as Prime Minister? I do not know – and (as you point out) their opinion does not count.