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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
08 Apr 2005 08:51:04 AM |
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OT: No more casualties from the war |
No more casualties from the war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1454830,00.html
We cannot cast protest votes and assume others will back Labour
Robin Cook
Friday April 8, 2005
The Guardian
We expected to win in 1992 and the party briefing firmly admonished
those of us on election night broadcasts that under no circumstances
were we to concede Labour might be losing. It promised that in that
unlikely event fresh instructions would arrive from party headquarters.
I was speaking into a BBC camera when the result from Basildon came
through, and bravely denied that any conclusion could be read into the
Conservative victory as the seat was wholly untypical of the rest of
Britain. As successive seats were held by Conservative MPs I insisted
they were equally untypical of the nation, while my agent desperately
tried to get the promised fresh instructions from party headquarters.
They never arrived, as by the small hours everyone back at HQ was in a
state of terminal despair and beyond caring about the dilemma for those
of us with a microphone still strapped to our lapel.
Robin Cook
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/4f31b2776cd8376a
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