It must be final day of the Lib Dem conference. Completely out of the blue I get an email from Comment is Free inviting me to submit something. I fired something out before setting off in my car for Halifax, only to discover they needed another paragraph. Ended up stopping at Service Stations trying to find some Wi-Fi, then realised I had 15 minutes left on the Laptop battery. Whoops. I had to stop again to send them a photo. Was quite exciting really – the finished piece is here.
And yes, this really happened…
I’d heard Gordon Brown on the radio earlier in the day claiming the reason he wanted to reduce the Trident fleet to 3 was because of concerns about nuclear proliferation. So, of course, I said:
“This is classic Gordon Brown. Who else would reduce the number of submarines to 3 and then claim he’s doing it to save the world, when everyone knows we can’t afford to replace one sub, never mind 3.”
I also made the point that Nick gave his speech at the same time Obama was giving his. Not good.
But yes, that’s my dose of mainstream media. Whether or not this is something that’s repeated is a complete mystery. I suspect the reality is that things will return to normal soon. All this sort of thing is actually highly disruptive to my normal blogging – I apologise. Normal service will be resumed shortly.
Rab C. Nesbitt said...
23 Sep 09 at 9:08 pm
I thought the post was going to be about Iain Dale…
Obnoxio The Clown said...
23 Sep 09 at 9:44 pm
It would have been better if it said “Nuclear cunts”.
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Frank Davis said...
24 Sep 09 at 12:56 am
And yes, this really happened…
I’m not convinced. It looks photoshopped to me. Your head is three times bigger than anyone else’s, and you’re gazing vacantly into space. I could have done it better.
Charlotte Gore said...
24 Sep 09 at 8:06 am
Cripes, rumbled!
Nick Barlow said...
24 Sep 09 at 10:34 am
It does look somewhat as though you’ve been employed as Sky News’s floaty Zardoz-esque head of disapproval. I’m surprised the evil laser eyes don’t show up on screen.
Frank Davis said...
24 Sep 09 at 1:34 pm
PM TO OFFER TO REDUCE TRIDENT FLEET FROM FOUR TO THREE AND CALL UPON OTHER COUNTRIES TO FOLLOW
That makes it sound like giving up smoking. And calling on other people to give up smoking too.
I wonder if he will. Or if they will.
Charlotte Gore said...
24 Sep 09 at 1:39 pm
Well it convinced me it’s really to save the world, after all.