Clarke takes one last desperate gasp of your precious oxygen
Backing Blair (April 26): One can only wonder what new, exciting and misguided authoritarian measure will be used to over-compensate for this disgraceful state of affairs...
*sigh*
Guardian - Clarke to toughen deportation laws: Home Secretary Charles Clarke is to announce plans to strengthen the law on deporting foreign prisoners, it has been confirmed. They will include the introduction of a presumption that any foreign national who is convicted of an imprisonable offence should be deported.
Well, I suppose, having been dragged in front of Parliament, he has to say *something*... so it's back to the tried and trusted method of using headline-grabbing authoritarian measures to mask incompetence and failure.
In his next move, Clarke will respond to news that criminals have been mistakenly released after trial by doing away with trials*.
(*This is a joke, obviously. Charles Clarke will never get to make this move because Tony Blair has decided that this is such an important crisis that he simply must wait until after the local elections to put someonecompetent reasonably competent who backs him in charge.)
Blair Watch: This shows the weakness of New Labour at the moment as they would have desperately wanted to hold off a statement until after Thursday's elections, as their political advantage far outweighs public safety or the right of an elected parliament to know what's going on.
Sunday Herald - Blair needs to reshuffle the Cabinet … including getting rid of himself: We could have four more years of this debilitating, damaging, depressing political farce. If that thought increases the national sense of depression, we understand and sympathise. More screw-ups await, more errors, more apologies, more heads-must-roll weeks, more worst-ever weeks. The sense of democratic fragmentation is heightened when it appears the Prime Minister's sole concern is to shore up the project, keep ministers in office when they should have be sacked and pretend the vacuum of authority he is operating in is, in his own words "just the way it is".
*sigh*
Guardian - Clarke to toughen deportation laws: Home Secretary Charles Clarke is to announce plans to strengthen the law on deporting foreign prisoners, it has been confirmed. They will include the introduction of a presumption that any foreign national who is convicted of an imprisonable offence should be deported.
Well, I suppose, having been dragged in front of Parliament, he has to say *something*... so it's back to the tried and trusted method of using headline-grabbing authoritarian measures to mask incompetence and failure.
In his next move, Clarke will respond to news that criminals have been mistakenly released after trial by doing away with trials*.
(*This is a joke, obviously. Charles Clarke will never get to make this move because Tony Blair has decided that this is such an important crisis that he simply must wait until after the local elections to put someone
Blair Watch: This shows the weakness of New Labour at the moment as they would have desperately wanted to hold off a statement until after Thursday's elections, as their political advantage far outweighs public safety or the right of an elected parliament to know what's going on.
Sunday Herald - Blair needs to reshuffle the Cabinet … including getting rid of himself: We could have four more years of this debilitating, damaging, depressing political farce. If that thought increases the national sense of depression, we understand and sympathise. More screw-ups await, more errors, more apologies, more heads-must-roll weeks, more worst-ever weeks. The sense of democratic fragmentation is heightened when it appears the Prime Minister's sole concern is to shore up the project, keep ministers in office when they should have be sacked and pretend the vacuum of authority he is operating in is, in his own words "just the way it is".
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