Don't be alarmed. "Blunkett is an Arse" is no more. The puerile name was fun, but a Rose by any other name is still a Rose, and the joke was getting a little old. So this is, in a way, "Arse 2.0", but in many other ways (i.e. all of them), it's still the same blog. The time is right to embrace the change.
And it's not the only change to be embraced. Today, I fear, we'll also be seeing the triumph of the 3rd ID Card reading, despite Kennedy's urges, as it were. Quite whether the issue is helped or overshadowed by other decisions to be made is up for debate. Still, I'm not expecting any miracles. I only say this so that I may be proved wrong...
More comment soon.
4 comments:
I welcome the new name. It is clearly the role not the individual that is the problem - Blunkett wasn't the first Home Secretary to have these characteristics, and Clarke probably won't be the last. Even apparently reasonable politicians seem to undergo some kind of transformation when they enter Queen Anne's Gate for the first time. Have we had an agweeable Home Secwetawy since Woy Jenkins?
Thanks, Richard - glad to know we're not just on some island when it comes to name-choosing.
When the Home Secretary becomes a puppet rather than a policy maker, it's definitely time to deflect attention elsewhere in the system. Perhaps the problem is that there are too *many* "reasonable" politicians, who are ready to act subservient to the wills of the few, rather than to the interests of the people that put them there. We need more *unreasonable* politicians!
Apart from Roy Jenkins, the only other decent Home Secretary in living memory seems to have been Willie Whitelaw, who reportedly had the common sense to cheerfully refuse self-interested requests for additional powers in the face of terrorist threats.
Jacqui Smith (in conversation with Iain Dale) "When I became Home Secretary, I'd never run a major organisation."
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