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April 11, 2005
Reform promised, but how far will it go?
Tony wants to be loved. And remembered. Lovingly. For this he needs people to forget about the sleaze and the invasions and associate him instead with big things like constitutional reform. He's done a fair share already: Scotland, Wales, the Bank of England... But that's all been pretty much wiped out by the bombing.
Thus Mr Blair has given some further thought to reforming the Lords, and, according to the Independent,
The Labour manifesto will also leave the door open to electoral reform for the House of Commons by pledging a review of the first-past-the-post system. Mr Blair rejected calls by John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, and Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, for the promise to be dropped.
Good good. But don't stop there. While he's at it, he should set up a review with an eye to the reform of Alastair Campbell too and see whether his blog is in fact written as a joke by Bremner, Bird and Fortune.
Posted by pauldavies on April 11, 2005
Comments
I have it on good authority that Campbells blog is simply a byproduct of a vast underground machine that feeds off the superheated air expelled during his extended tirades of abusive language and vitriolic outbursts, and safely converts it into steam to power the electricity generators for the mechanical pencil sharpeners in number 10...
Posted by: 'Lilburne' at April 11, 2005 04:22 PM
We're democrats and believe in free speech, but we're also committed to civil and rational debate. We reserve the right to delete material posted to our site, but we hope and expect to exercise this right rarely if at all.
