A Far Fetched Resolution

I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, you go through the years sticking to that, out-dated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council, a Labour council hiring taxis to scuttle round the city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers. I’ll tell you.. You can’t play politics with people’s jobs and with people’s services.

Friday, August 18, 2006

"You're not very good"

A good friend of mine went to a football match (I believe it was Oxford United) and was so taken by one of the chants used ("You're not very good, You're not very good [repeat]") that he adopted it to sing at Liberal Democrats whenever he got the opportunity.

I thought of this when I heard about John Prescott's thoughtful and insightful analysis of the strengths and weakness of the US Presidents' character.

Once I'd though about that a bit, it got me thinking about something else. Can Prezza so eloquently sum up the virtues of every world leader?

If anyone isn't on holiday at the moment, suggest me some (tasteful) four-letter summings-up of the foreign and domestic policies of the leading lights of the international stage. We might submit them to Prezza for his forthcoming book on international relations; "Thinking about Peace and War".

I'll start you off with a very loyal New Labour one in a desperate attempt to provoke some reaction in the dog-days of August:

Tony Blair: "Firm"

3 Comments:

  • At 12:51 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    The word "oops" springs to mind...

     
  • At 1:43 am, Blogger Pickles said…

    Is that for Ehud Olmert?

     
  • At 10:39 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Actually, you did not ask your Mum to remain anonymous. She signed the letter asking for name not to be published as her son would kill her /die of embarrassment if name was mentionned.
    Give your Mum some credit!!!

     

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