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Re: The UK. Is. Not. So. Competitive. (4.00 / 3)

Yes, but when you have drunk so much neo-liberal kool-aid that you still think that the White House is a repository of widom and the only useful function for the British Government is to joyfully anticipate every whim of the US president, then it all makes so much sense.

It's the reason why the Labour party will get its backside kicked in the Crewe By-election tonight and will lose the next election, the irony being that the alternative is genuinely worse.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu May 22nd, 2008 at 02:05:08 PM EST
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Re: The UK. Is. Not. So. Competitive. (none / 0)

Could you supply any evidence that anyone in the Labour leadership actually believes "that the White House is a repository of widom [sic]" ?

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Thu May 22nd, 2008 at 03:56:32 PM EST
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