Musical interlude for the wags at Policy Exchange.
It seems they accidentally released the whole script of their Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Cities Unlimited’ to the media.
The script includes a sketch about mass migration from Oop North to areas of wealth and exorbitant house prices and rents.
David Cameron brands the ideas as “insane”, I suppose because he wouldn’t want those type of folk anywhere near his constituency.
Wouldn’t a massive influx really boost the bank accounts of the property owners and landlords of the South? Hmmm… I suppose it would. Hurrah for The Conservatives ! BBC News Link
…So perhaps Mr Bush’s most significant legacy, as far as Britain is concerned, will be the destruction of the instinctive trust of America and its leaders that once prevailed here. It is no exaggeration to say that Mr Bush has done more damage to relations between our two nations than any president in living memory. This rupture is not an accident of circumstance; there are no impersonal forces of history to blame. This sorry state of affairs is the consequence of the actions of a single leader and his small coterie of advisers….
With the new editor Roger “But my biggest mistake of all is probably that of being a terrible old right-winger trying to look after one of Britain’s premier liberal papers.” Alton starting in a couple of weeks, we probably won’t see to many more in the future. source
Unfortunately, Gordon Brown seemed much more at ease with Bush at their news conference, producing some of the same old sycophantic twaddle that his predecessor did.
A new image along these lines a little later.
but in the meantime, a repeat (with a bit of a change) :
The guy’s PR machine moves like lightning…
Last night the tube was full of civil service revellers carrying beige a4 folders and briefcases. Horrendous…
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