The Quarry
Shocking and sad that Iain Banks is dead. I finished The
Quarry this week. It’s the joy, wit and imagination of writers like Banks that
makes reading novels such a pleasure.
‘Sir’ John Bettison and John Grieve
While a great writer and great man is lost, we retain Norman
Bettison, £213,000 a year police chief (while continuing to claim a pension
from his last post, after a legal challenge), who, not satisfied with
besmirching the memory of people lost at Hillsborough (egged on by the wicked
witch), is now under investigation for seeking to discredit the family of
Stephen Lawrence.
How’s that ‘Sir’, the uniform, and the huge pensions still
there? Justice or just-us again?
John Grieve is claiming that he signed off bugging
interviews with Duwayne Brooks to protect the integrity of witness evidence.
Yeah John.
Jack the Ripper was a social worker and I’m next in line to
be the Pope.
Can you trust any police? The answer is ‘no’. At the top
they’re corrupt and careerist as individuals come, and greedy, too. On the
front line they kill innocent special needs newspaper sellers on their way home
while revelling in the joy of kettling anyone with views slightly to the left
of Goebbels.
Miliband…
…on the row about Unite and Falkirk :
“I am angry about
this. I am incredibly angry about what has happened. Certain people have let
down this party and I am not going to let it happen.”
In general, not-so-red Ed wants to break links with the
unions. Would that be the unions that founded the Labour party? That’s them. I
think the unions will outlast new labour. After all, how many tory parties do
we need? Rebrand new labour the new conservatives and there we have it. The
different names, same party options we’ve been moving towards for some time
now.
In detail:
- Don’t bother being angry. Angry works for large specimens who have the capacity to be very loud and do some real damage if they start crashing about. Pencil necks who sound like John Merrick doing John Merrick impersonations don’t really cut it. Run along love, go be angry somewhere else, the rugby’s on the telly.
- How can you be the leader of the opposition when you can’t speak properly? That’s “let the party down”, not “let down the party”. “Have let down the party” is past tense, so without a wormhole in space or a time-machine, you’ve no choice about letting it happen, Ed, because it already has.
Go back to the new Victorian freak-show, and take your millionaire
buddies with you, Ed. Remember this is the bloke who said we shouldn't celebrate
Thatcher’s death. Or:
“Weh schuddenth celebraith
Thatcher’s duth” as he puts it.
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