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2004-01-18 Britain

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Posted by Steve White 2004-01-18 12:59:19 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Passed that one onto Bjorn.

Not necessarily - seems Panorama's going to do a hatchet job on Gilligan, via buzzmachine.

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-1-18 1:02:18 AM|| 2004-1-18 1:02:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Fatal" to the government, eh? So who takes over then, Gordon Brown? Or does Labour just collapse and the Tories take over?

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-1-18 1:02:40 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2004-1-18 1:02:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Oops, partial wrong posting. Krekar to Bjorn.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have some Iraqis testify as to how her wanting to protect them made them feel?

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-1-18 1:04:10 AM|| 2004-1-18 1:04:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Excellent idea, A2U, let's get some the relatives of the people in the mass graves in Iraq to fly into the trial. They could be, ah, "character" witnesses.

Posted by Steve White 2004-1-18 1:12:46 AM|| 2004-1-18 1:12:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Necessity plea? For breaking cryptographic clearances, including targes, soruces and methods?

Gimme a break.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. (William Pitt)

It most certainly is the creed of slaves in this case, typical leftist slaves.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-1-18 1:29:57 AM|| 2004-1-18 1:29:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 DD, If Tony falls (remember, although he's been doing the right thing in Iraq, he's still an Internationalist, EU-loving Leftist who was in the CND during the 80's) then Gordon Brown is most likely to fill his shoes.

'New' Labour is pretty fragmented anyhow, but they love the smell of power, therefore expect them to rally together to defeat a motion of no confidence (which would trigger a general election). The tories are still too weak to take NuLabour on head-on at the moment, but are increasing in the polls. The real losers are the Liberal Democrats, who change policies accordingly with the previous opinion poll.

Tony has been watering down key legislation to the point of impotence to get it past his (sometimes rabidly leftist) backbenchers for some time now. Gordon Brown isn't as well known as Tony (obviously), but it is unlikely there would be more than a token effort from other NuLabourites to grab hold of the reins (but it would be very interesting if some upstart did appear). Look for several years of appeasing policies to the hard-left in the party.

A year ago a Tory government at the next election was thought to be impossible. It's getting more and more likely every day (and *then* the US will see what a true ally Britain is!).

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-1-18 5:40:32 AM|| 2004-1-18 5:40:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd like to see the courts go against this twit, and end up sentencing her to hang by the neck for treason. I think it "would send a necessary message" to the loony left. I also think Jesse Jackass and Sean Penn should be jailed (or hanged beside her) for enciting, and for interfering in the internal workings of a foreign government. I wouldn't shed a single tear for any of the three.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-1-18 1:58:18 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-1-18 1:58:18 PM|| Front Page Top

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