So its be no compromise after all. Blairius Caesar has spoken and orders have gone out to the Whips office to polish their jackboots. All that’s missing now is a stirring Churchillian speech:
“We will fight them in the bedsits and in the Islamic Bookshops – We will never surrender”.
Enter Blair and Clarke – The Sunset Boys – a choice pair of parliamentary spivs if ever such existed.
“Tell you what missus. We can see you’re not 100% here so we’ll make you a deal.
You take this luvverly 90-day internment order, you try it out for a year and if you don’t like it then you can always bring it back an’ exchange it for sumfink else!”
Meanwhile, over in Chavsville, Murdoch rides to the rescue once again with…
Notice how there’s no phone number on offer to tell Tony he’s wrong.
Personally, this works for me far better…
Note also that the phone number on the Sun is a premium rate line. Besides which there’s no point telling Tony he’s wrong. You may as well just pick up the phone and talk to the dial tone.