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"maff" |
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16 Jul 2004 02:59:04 AM |
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OT: Delusions of grandeur |
Delusions of grandeur
After Butler: What now for the prime minister, the intelligence
services and Britain?
Polly Toynbee
Friday July 16, 2004
The Guardian
What now? Downing Street is loudly reforming its procedures with a
fitting show of contrition, but all the while Blair people observe
that the more tsunamis the prime minister surfs, the more secure he
seems.
The idea that a profoundly conventional mandarin like Lord Butler or a
dyed-in-the-wool judge like Lord Hutton would ever unseat an elected
prime minister was always far-fetched. And quite right too. Neither
civil service nor judiciary are trained to usurp a democratically
elected prime minister. If it is time for a prime minister to go, then
his cabinet, his party or the electorate are the ones to wield the
knife. So far, there is not much sign of it on any of those fronts.
Polly Toynbee
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0311210305.3e3bb249%40posting.google.com
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Delusions of grandeur |
16 Jul 2004 02:13:40 PM |
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(maff) wrote in message news:<18510aff.0407152359.51bf34d0@posting.google.com>...
Delusions of grandeur
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1262580,00.html
After Butler: What now for the prime minister, the intelligence
services and Britain?
Polly Toynbee
Friday July 16, 2004
The Guardian
What now? Downing Street is loudly reforming its procedures with a
fitting show of contrition, but all the while Blair people observe
that the more tsunamis the prime minister surfs, the more secure he
seems.
The idea that a profoundly conventional mandarin like Lord Butler or a
dyed-in-the-wool judge like Lord Hutton would ever unseat an elected
prime minister was always far-fetched. And quite right too. Neither
civil service nor judiciary are trained to usurp a democratically
elected prime minister. If it is time for a prime minister to go, then
his cabinet, his party or the electorate are the ones to wield the
knife. So far, there is not much sign of it on any of those fronts.
Polly Toynbee
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0311210305.3e3bb249%40posting.google.com
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