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Thursday, September 13, 2007

I Believe What I Believe Is True

The Glorious Successor has continued his Big Tent policy of wearing a different size suit from his predecessor by having a tea-time chat with Margaret Thatcher. The Vicar of Downing Street also invited her in for fun and games during the early days of his own ministry; however, in his case it was probably just another celebrity photo-opportunity, the New Labour equivalent of having sex with Princess Diana. Gordon is an altogether more serious proposition; hence the tryst is being presented as one between "conviction politicians". Thatcher believes in putting people in prison, and so does Gordon. Gordon is a conviction polician. Gordon likes conviction politicians. "I admire the fact that she is a conviction politician," Gordon has said of Thatcher. "I am a conviction politician like her." It appears that in the political sphere a conviction or two is self-evidently desirable. The actual substance of the convictions may be left to the PR department or, at times of global emergency, to the White House.

Gordon has also praised the old bag for having "realised Britain's need for change", particularly in its methods of counting the unemployed and in its quaint, outdated, crypto-Stalinist ideas about utilities being there to provide a service to the public rather than a bonus in the boardroom. The Prime Minister's spin doctors also "insisted there was a social aspect to today's unlikely encounter" - they didn't just sit around in a tent discussing convictions. Thatcher "largely furnished the so-called 'bachelor flat' above No 10 and sources said that she wanted to look round the accommodation to see what had changed". Well, if that isn't worth a couple of hours of Gordon's time I can't imagine what would be.

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