{"id":1223,"date":"2006-04-26T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/26\/dear-god-someone-pass-the-mind-bleach\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T22:50:31","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T22:50:31","slug":"dear-god-someone-pass-the-mind-bleach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/dear-god-someone-pass-the-mind-bleach\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear God – someone pass the mind-bleach"},"content":{"rendered":"

And I thought the mental image of (the late) gnome-like Robin Cook with his (then) secretary was bad enough, or gravestone-toothed David Mellor with that horse-faced model woman in his Chelsea strip. But oh no – Labour can always go one better… I mean, PRESCOTT<\/a> of all people? The standards of 40-something secretaries really have slipped, haven’t they? AND he didn’t even have the decency to do it in the back of one of his two jags, but his Whitehall flat. (That’s the one paid for by the taxpayers, rather than the one he failed to pay Council tax on…)<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> It’s just sunk in how utterly screwed the government should be over all this. I mean, in just the last week we’ve had:<\/p>\n

the ongoing loans for peerages\/contracts crisis
\nflogging Eurofighter jets to the human rights-light Saudi regime
\ncock-ups over calculating NHS debt
\n\u00c2\u00a37,000 spent on the PM’s wife’s hair
\nthreats of NHS strikes
\nrevelations that new troops deployed to Afghanistan will have insufficient air support
\nrevelations that a bunch of people who should have been deported haven’t been
\nthe resignation of the Chief Executive of the NHS \/ Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health
\nthe Health Secretary under pressure to resign
\nthe Home Secretary under pressure to resign
\nyet ANOTHER overpayment of tax credits, threatening to destroy yet more hard-up families as they are forced to repay them
\nthe Deputy Prime Minister having an affair<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And God alone knows what else I’ve missed. Do they actually WANT to get wiped out at the local elections next week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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