Saturday, March 31, 2007

Keeping your eye on the ball

No doubt we are all concerned by the Iranian kidnapping of the British marines, but there are issues involved that run far deeper than the kidnapping itself. Patricia Hewitt, the British Health Secrectary, points to one those deeper concerns:
"It was deplorable," pronounced our tight-lipped Health Secretary, "that the woman hostage should be shown smoking. This sends completely the wrong message to our young people."
Not to mention increasing the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. No wonder the British are working so hard to keep things cool. The rest of the story is at Christopher Booker's notebook.

h/t: EU Referendum

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Until the last sentence and the link, I thought maybe it was Scrappleface.

Winnie and Nelson are spinning at 10,000 RPM.

Unknown said...

Oh Jeez. Well maybe next time they will just show her being stoned or something easy to take like that.

buddy larsen said...

Put Maggie Thatcher in charge of negotiations.

buddy larsen said...

She took back them fockin' islands.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, Buddy, but they had a navy then. Even a few Avro Vulcans.

Anonymous said...

Yes, Peter, I agree. Very sad.

buddy larsen said...

Maybe this will help the Conservative Party?

chuck said...

Ah, Buddy,

Britain doesn't *have* a conservative party. Cameroon is just more puffed rice with a sugared coating and the Lib Dems are left. The remaining parties are minor and UKIP, which got a wopping 2.4% of the vote in the last election, is coming apart. There is always the BNP, but it is pretty much a genuinely fascist party that only got 0.7% of the vote.

Peter UK can probably tell you more, but I bet he is just frustrated as h*ll, he and a bunch of other Brits. The leadership classes of Britain are really letting the side down.

buddy larsen said...

Pretty damn grim. Yet London's business energy is healthy--just knocked NYC back to #2 in global IPOs.

Unknown said...

big girls blouse rules.

Once, back when I was in college and a man named Professor Lunden was teaching a course on modern Euroopean history he talked about the fishermen and yachtmen and any Englishman with a boat setting sail for Dunkirk to help the boys..with the Nazis breathing down their necks.

I somehow doubt all those Englishmen have gone away. Maybe it is time for Arthur to return.