Yes!
I have forgotten the context but I recall Douglas Hurd (Tory Foreign Sec,
I believe) saying _This is a muddled message and now is not the time to
turn the table over_
Oh well, back to work
L
On Mon, September 19, 2011 13:44, cris cheek wrote:
> i'm remembering Jack Straw justifying the UK involvement in plans and
> action upon plans to invade Iraq uttering the wonderful sentence:
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> we are taking these steps because words must mean what they say
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> cris
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> On Sep 19, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> We have a local council in S D England about to clear _travellers_ from
>> a place where they have been for ten years
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>> I have little allegiance to the position of either side but for
>> different reasons
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>> I am however listening to how they express themselves. One says it is
>> ridiculous to say they have broken the law because they are catholics.
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>> & I just listened to the man in charge of the clearance:
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>> _Let's be clear, this is about the legality of the situation. And let's
>> be clear that if this operation begins, and it will, then it will end_
>> And
>> *that was it.
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>> What was he talking about? (rhetorical question)
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>> I am now listening to a man who is talking out of the same orifice
>> about destruction of planning regulations - in response to an argument
>> that a proposed new law will endanger the countryside he has just said
>> _no, no,
>> you're just complicating it_ and *that was all he said
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>> The BBC broadcasts this spluttering as news
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>> L
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>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
>> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
>> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
>> wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
>> Lawrence Upton
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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