G'day Hugh,
>Nice as slapping bottoms might be, Rob, and I never thought you were a
>Madonna fan, a more appropriate measure might be to put offenders in the
>front row of the scrum in the coming final between the Springboks and the
>All Blacks. Five minutes at tight head would just about do the trick ...
Heh, heh. That'd be the third-fourth play-off you'd be talking about, eh?
Rather their packs than the French, say I. What a bunch of thugs! Did like
laMaison, though - and I suppose said thugs have to get credit for giving
him the room for those worrying little kicks of his.
>So many of the briefly fashionable "left" positions of recent years
>are ending up on imperialist ministerial platforms that their supposedly
>Marxist let alone revolutionary credentials get washed away in the ensuing
>tide of blood. Making things much clearer.
On that reckoning we should be seeing some dramatic polarisation at the
ballot box and not a little taking it to the streets. Arguably, we're
seeing a bit of this in Germany and parts of the erstwhile Eastern bloc. I
even detect a little leftish grumbling rising to the surface from the Noo
Labour backbenches - all with appropriate British reserve, of course - but
then the journey of a thousand steps starts with the first whimper, I
s'pose. Is Tony Benn's retirement from the parliament for, er, more direct
politics getting much coverage over there, btw?
Cheers,
Rob.
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