The Curmudgeon

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Gordon Goes Globular

The Glorious Successor's glorious idea of a "statement of British values" to define, once and for all, what distinguishes us from the lesser breeds appears to have run into inexplicable difficulties. Problems arose when the first regional focus group, set up to glorify the Glorious Successor's inspiration at a cost of just under thirty-seven thousand pounds, attracted a glorious total of ten members of the public. Daveybloke's cuddly spokesbeing for the Shadow of Incarceration, Deportation and Enforced Britishness was apparently more concerned about the fact that the plans are being quietly dropped than about the mentality revealed by the plans' very existence. "Ditching his plans before they've even seen the light of day is a serious embarrassment for the government," the spokesbeing said. I should have thought that the best time to ditch an idiotic project would be before too much time and effort has been wasted on it (compare and contrast identity cards, internment, Iraq, the Olympics, PFI etc.); but then, of course, I make no claim to be a Government in Waiting.

The Glorious Successor's new glorious idea is that our troubles need "global" solutions: American politics, Saudi business practices, Israeli policing, Albanian environmentalism and a Chinese energy policy. I suppose there is room for reassurance in the fact that the Glorious Successor still believes the world is round.

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