Re: Tony Blair's socks (Was Re: UKNM: Fast Summit)

[Stefan Magdalinski]

socks or boxers? 


hello all ;)


stefx


Mark Dolley wrote:

> 

> I wrote:

> >>Closer to home, the Rt Hon Chris Smith MP, Secretary of State for

> >>Culture, Media and Sport once had the idea of giving away

> >>state-subsidised digital set-top boxes to everyone in the country and

> >>financing the deal by auctioning off access licences.

> >>

> >>But not only did it smack of centralised "big" government, it would have

> >>dented Murdoch's plan. And as we all know, he is the one really running

> >>the country.

> >

>

Ray Taylor,taylorbizbiz [dot] com had a go at me on 9/21/98 1:54 AM:

> 

> >Typical ex-pat "wisdom" on home affairs. I think the current UK government

> >is the biggest (and undoubtedly the best and most popular) since 1945 and so

> >needs no particular help from Australian entrepreneurs, despite what the

> >crappy UK print media (Murdoch and otherwise) have to say about the matter.

> 

>

David Bentley,david_bentleyalny [dot] com chimed in on 9/21/98 6:40 AM:

> 

> >Typical partisan argument - it isn't about needing Murdoch now, it is about

> >having needed Murdoch to get there.  It is now pay back time.

> 

> The ex-pat crack was easy. It might be a little harder to discount the

> two years I spent working as a Labour researcher in the Shadow Heritage

> team, including drafting stuff for Chris Smith. As for proof of Murdoch's

> insidious nature, you have no idea how heavily the proposed cross-media

> ownership restrictions have been watered down from pre-manifesto

> thinking.

> 

> Next time I see you Ray, remind me to tell you about the time I told Tony

> Blair to pull his socks up, in a lift at No.1 Parliament Street, while he

> was still Shadow Home Secretary...

> 

> Cheers,

> 

>            Mark Dolley                         z a p w o r k s !

> 

>                         vox:(+1) 415 543 8600

> 

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