A wit has said "Britain is waiting for Gordo"
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On 22/01/07, Adrian Midgley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> - Camouflaging the recurrent arrest for, this time, corruption of the
> honours process and attempted corruption of justice of Mr Blair's close
> asssitant Ruth Turner, and other arrests of a similar nature;
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> - the absence of an effective prime minister impairing concentration and
> authority down through the secretary of state into the DOH - teh thing
> isn't properly under control so the stupidity trap is malfunctioning.
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> - A continued rise in a feature of the NHS/DoH which I first noted
> during conservative government of managers not merely lying occasionally
> and feeling bad about it, but lying first when it was convenient, and
> latterly as a preferred behaviour, and no longer feeling good about it.
> Indeed, I think the corrupting principle of higher management requiring
> lower management to appear to believe and to repeat lies as a means of
> impairing their critical (of their superiors) faculty is active. It is
> one of the adverse factors a prime minister with a preference for
> truthfulness might have reversed, and that would have been a good if
> unobtrusive legacy.
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