Thursday 16 January 2014

The New Labour Rose of Sharon

Following the recent death of Ariel Sharon, and the ghastly ham-acting of Tony Blair at his funeral, I have been reminded of something.

Back in the days when New Labour was led by Blair and the other lot was led by Michael Howard, deeply disillusioned former Cabinet Ministers from both sides implored me not to write, even in jest, that our most unaccomplished 16-year-olds should be conscripted directly into the Israeli Defence Force, on the grounds that, "if the wrong person reads that, then it will happen."

They were not joking, and I have since learned that, entirely independently, such a scheme was being given serious consideration during the last, dark days of Blair's Bunker.

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