BBC prepares to kill off Margaret Thatcher
This, from Recess Monkey, is well worthy of a wider audience.
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This, from Recess Monkey, is well worthy of a wider audience.
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Denis Healey, writing about Roy Jenkins in "The Time of My Life."
"I'll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with a series of far-fetched resolutions, and these are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code. And you go through the years sticking to that, outdated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council, a Labour council, hiring taxis to scuttle round the city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers. I'll tell you - and you'll listen - you can't play politics with people's jobs and with people's homes and with people's services."
Neil Kinnock, Bournemouth 1985.
1 comments:
The BBC (and other broadcasters) have pre-prepared obit packages ready to run for a great load of people. Blair and Cameron as the current PM and Opposition Leader, members of Royal Family etc. They are updated all the time, and rehersals are held several times a year. Indeed, when the Queen Mum died in 2002, just a week before there was a full scale rehershal of the coverage of her death. Didn't help Sissons though!
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