Parliamentary democracy itself may well be the bulwark againt totalitarianism but the two party system sure is not. What's worse, it breeds rank hyocrisy, as the Eye has just pointed out in the current edition [1225, p3]:
And who were the most high profile utilizers of these leaks? That's right - Blair and the man of Straw.
In fact, 1995 was dubbed "the year of the leak", with civil servants across Whitehall falling over themselves to hand over documents to the opposition. The cross-party European forum found that there had been 38 significant breaches, with the Home Office and Transport Department handing over most. It got so bad that even internal reports on how to plug leaks were ... er ... leaked.
And who were the most high profile utilizers of these leaks? That's right - Blair and the man of Straw.
Yet Gordo's gross P.R budget not even met with a murmur throughout the sphere,though?
ReplyDeleteThe PR budget, yes. What are the figures?
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