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This week's Grumpy Old Riddle: who said this? … "I believe that together we can chart a better way forward. In particular, I believe that by applying our enduring ideals to new challenges we can start immediately to make changes in our constitution and laws to safeguard and extend the liberties of our citizens: respecting and extending freedom of assembly, new rights for the public expression of dissent; respecting freedom to organise and petition, new freedoms that guarantee the independence of non-governmental organisations; respecting freedoms for our press, the removal of barriers to investigative journalism; respecting the public right to know, new rights to access public information where previously it has been withheld; respecting privacy in the home, new rights against arbitrary intrusion; in a world of new technology, new rights to protect your private information; and respecting the need for freedom from arbitrary treatment, new provision for independent judicial scrutiny and open parliamentary oversight." And the answer? It was our very own Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, speaking a couple of weeks ago at the University of Westminster. Bloody liar. Exactly how stupid does he think we are? Does he really think he can dupe us simply by saying the very opposite of the truth? It might have worked for the totalitarian regime in George Orwell's "1984", but that was written nearly sixty years ago. It might still work for the parliamentary Labour Party, I suppose, but for us real people? I don't think so. I imagine we've got a little more cynical since, or even because, Orwell put pen to paper … either on this site or on the World Wide Web. Copyright © 2007 The GOS This site created and maintained by PlainSite |
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