Jack Straw uses FOI veto on Iraq cabinet minutes

WAR IS PEACE, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH,

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Not too sure about this video. I had an idea in my head but I now think the juxtaposition doesn’t match as well as I initially thought. Posting it anyway. If I had a day job, I wouldn’t give it up.
The video is a reworking of the famous Guardian ‘Points of View’ commercial.

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Comments (4)

  1. Jimmy Kerr wrote::

    How ironic is it that the man charged with writing the FOI act should be the one that destroys it.

    For my take on it see

    http://ssprenfrewshire.wordpress.com

    Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 2:08 pm #
  2. Ian wrote::

    What’s the source video?

    Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 4:05 pm #
  3. Beau Bo D'Or wrote::

    The video is a reworking of the famous Guardian ‘Points of View’ commercial.

    Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 4:17 pm #
  4. Deadbeat Dad wrote::

    There’s a lovely extra dose of irony in the fact that the advert (in the video) was for the Labour Party’s house rag.

    I gave up buying The Guardian a few years ago, but I am old enough to remember this iconic campaign from the days when I was an avid Guardianista. It was (and remains) deeply impressive, but so too is your subversion of it, BB.

    Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 5:47 pm #

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  1. Jack Straw’s apocalypse of interest - Chicken Yoghurt on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 11:04 am

    [...] Image by Beau Bo D’OrYou have to admit it’s elegant. The Foreign Secretary who was instrumental in making the fraudulent case for an illegal war in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed is now the Justice Secretary suppressing documents detailing the making of the fraudulent case for an illegal war in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed. That’s not a conflict of interest, that’s an apocalypse of interest. [...]

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