20-09-2009, 12:33 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Paul Rigby Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote:Paul Rigby Wrote:Ask Baroness Scotland.
I tried calling her but was told she was busy with her creative accountant...
I wonder who the spooks will move into her place? Some interesting decisions coming up on who and what to prosecute, no?
Prosecute? Good grief that's a bit rich isn't it? Slap on the wrist, yes. Taking a willow stick to the bottom of selected culprits would be so far outside normal political tolerances, that I'd have to sit down and wrap a cold flannel around my forehead and wonder what the world was coming to.hot:
One of the first quotes I noted down as a serious young man resolved to understand how British politics worked. Unsurprisingly, almost everything I took in during that period of high seriousness turned out to be complete bollocks. Oh well, this at least stood the test of time - and how:
“Labour v. The Jury,” The New Statesman, 29 July 1977, (Vol 94 No 2419), p.133:
Quote:“Civil liberties, never very safe in Tory clutches, are positively imperilled whenever entrusted to Labour lawyers.”