We have a government facing significant challenges. Historically, the Tory response to such difficulties has included retreating to inane law and order rhetoric, which invariably led to prisoners getting a kicking.
This hasn't been happening, and I can't tell you just how disconcerting this is. Just what are they up to..? Possibly, just maybe, the financial crisis is giving a more cerebral coterie of Tories the opportunity to peddle their wares, to argue a more sophisticated view of law and order?
We can only hope. And in the meantime, brace ourselves! For every Ken Clarke or Crispin Blunt there are a hundred Michael Howards waiting in the wings, their fangs glistening.
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We live in pragmatic times. Where prisons are concerned, let us be thankful. (Know what you mean about disconcertion.)
ReplyDeleteStill be ever ready.
ReplyDeleteYour blog is exemplary Ben, the end of this post had me laughing out loud, for one thing because of the truth in it!
Hope you get everything you want and need in life from now on and that the cancer dries up and disappears, or burns out and disappears, or whatever it has got to do to disappear, I hope and pray that it does.
Very best wishes xx
"For every Ken Clarke or Crispin Blunt there are a hundred Michael Howards waiting in the wings, their fangs glistening."
ReplyDeleteThat's why democracy is not as good as some people make it out to be. Just because a lot of people think something does not make it right.