> -----Original Message----- > From: keith_w [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jack Davis wrote: > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4099581.stm > > > > And, in all the new news about his leaving office, not a > sentence about the "food and lodging" fiasco he so blithely > perpetrated! > Is all that forgotten so quickly? > > Seems so...
I suspect nothing came of that. When there's a change of minister a lot of ideas are quietly dropped. That idea about food and lodging is typical though of this particular government. They will casually float an idea so outrageous that people are instantly up in arms about it and the newspapers are in a froth. They will then tone it down somewhat, but to a level that is itself completely unacceptable. They hope by doing this that enough people are sufficiently dumb not to notice, but to feel relieved and to feel as though they've scored a result. The govt. then presents themselves as 'listening to the voice of the people', and gets on with doing what they wanted to do in the first place. Bob
