From: "John Hurst.", [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >(a usually reliable source) > >March 18th 2001 - Mark That Day > >So are you going on the Countryside March on March 18th? Are you quite >certain you are? One of the 150,000 already registered, perhaps? Well it >must be all right then. > >But wait! Not everyone wants the match to go ahead, dear me no. For one >thing, those opposed to hunting certainly do not want it to do so. They are >losing the argument, you see. Lots of chaps who would be seen dead putting >on the pink have realise that you need a better reason to criminalise >anything up to three quarters of a million people, including the Prince of >Wales, just because you don't like what you wrongly perceive to be the cut >glass crystal tones of those attending. > >The last thing people like that want is an orderly demonstration of decent >men and women claiming no other privilege than the right to continue to >maintain their lives and traditions in a peaceable way. > >And there is one particular person who does want the march to go ahead >either and that is the Prime Minister. On the evening of the last march, >there was a touching scene in a video conference room deep in the heart of >Westminster where the Prime Minister ands his then inseparable chum 'Mandy' >Mandelson looked at the security videos together. > >"He can't possibly vote Tory," shouts our Leader, "He's got a ferret in that >Barbour." This then for our leader was the horrible moment of truth. Many of >those on the March did indeed not vote Tory last time, but they will next. >What is worse, the very last thing our hero needs as May 3rd approaches is >anything up to 1,000,000 people parading through London and, as it were, >into every drawing room in the land, proclaiming by their presence that the >Prime Minister is not so much a 'pretty regular guy,' but really rather a >scrub. > >What is to be done? Ah! what indeed and that is why a certain froideur has >crept into relations between the PM and Jack Straw this past week. It is >being reliably reported, as they say, that the PM has been asking the Home >Secretary 'whether the letter has arrived.' > >"What letter?" says our Jack. > >"The one from the Metropolitan Police Commissioner asking you to withdraw >permission for the march because of the high level of violence and >intimidation that the marchers offer, " replies Tony. > >"But there hasn't been any such letter," says Jack. > >"Then ask for it, and quickly." retorts the PM. > >That at least in broad line is what is afoot and even by the standards of >this Prime Minister it is a pretty shabby business. > >There is of course no threat of violence from the March as both the previous >rally and march show. Indeed the only threat of violence is of an altogether >more domestic sort if Blair does not 'persuade' the Police to advise the >government etc. Now how might that be? > >Well consider. IFAW and PAL bankrolled the Labour Party in opposition for >£1.1 million. That was how the pledge to legislate against hunting was >extracted from the government. > >And is there anyone in PAL who might have the ear of Tony? Well what about >Cherie Blair's sister who works as a senior executive for PAL. Yes, I think >that should do nicely. Yes - Mr. Blairs sister in law ! > >So there you have it and does it not almost make you weep? Here we have a >government, which sells party policy for £1,000,000 to Bernie Ecclestone. > >We have a former Northern Ireland Secretary who bases his defence on the >proposition that suborning a junior minister to procure a passport is an >event of so little consequence that he simply cannot remember whether on >this occasion he did. > >We have the Minister for Europe who believes that public office should be >milked for private profit like a stall in a souk. > >And floating on this pool of slurry we have a Prime Minister who believes >that only the techniques of dispersal separate the principles governing the >removal of protesters from Tianamin Square and Trafalgar Square. > >I think I'll go back to the pigs. And why not? > >After all, if the polls are right the country's going back to the dogs. > >Tomas Tompion Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
