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Topic History of: Home Secretary wants to break the law Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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hedda
In The Know wrote: JK2006 wrote: Quite a good thread Hedda - worst Home Secretary in our memory? Toss up for me between David Blunkett and Michael Howard.
Difficult choice when choosing between mediocrity and mediocrity.
BOTH simply kow-towed (to keep their jobs)
... but we could have the SAME discussion about Foreign Secretaries too.
my Labour hate list is longer than my Tory list.
which just shows what a reasonable person I am.
In The Know
JK2006 wrote: Quite a good thread Hedda - worst Home Secretary in our memory? Toss up for me between David Blunkett and Michael Howard.
Difficult choice when choosing between mediocrity and mediocrity.
BOTH simply kow-towed (to keep their jobs)
... but we could have the SAME discussion about Foreign Secretaries too.
In The Know
JK2006 wrote: T May given a raspberry in the Abu Qatada case - and quite right too; no evidence, no proof, you CANNOT lock up an innocent man.
When you go to bed tonight,
Kneel down beside the bed,
and say a little prayer -
"Thank God for the independent Judiciary"
Without them, we'd be like Zimbabwe, Syria, Iran, Libya, et al
Of course, individual Judges do sometimes make daft decisions (they are human) but on the whole the system work (to protect us).
In The Know
hedda wrote: what a ghastly person May is.
(note to ITK : I thought similar about her Labour counterparts )
Look on the bright side ... it just shot her leadership aspirations to smithereens !
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JK2006 wrote: Quite a good thread Hedda - worst Home Secretary in our memory? Toss up for me between David Blunkett and Michael Howard.