i apologise.

Gordon is a bit of a stalinist. possibly the moustache.
portaloo has no connection with portugal. it was a cheap jibe, concerning his supposed ancestry.
the right wingers did talk of him as 'the prince across the water' when 'soft option' Major was elected because they knew no one with Thatcher's line in malarkey would get elected.

I am chastened.

DD...bit of a tit though, wouldn't you say? i feel more threatened by him and his thatcherite economics than I do by Gordon.

You see when the tories get elected and all the tax breaks start going to the rich and economies have to be made - so essential services go down the tube, and no one sees further than the end of this weeks balance sheet - except when it comes to right wing bollocks like fund holding surgeries and the national curriculum .

that's when ordinary people - trade unionists, teachers teaching about cultural diversity, the unemployed - that's when they become enemies of the state.

thatcher bent the law every which way in those years and when the statute books didn't back her up - she ignored them anyway. The secret history of that period won't be known in my lifetime, but from what people told me who had been on both sides in the miners strike - I guessed some of it.

So no. I don't see DD as a guarantor of my civil rights.

i think it might be a mistake for you to do so as well.

if the cops and the soldiers who have to clear up after things like the tube bombing ask for this extra peiod of detention - they should be allowed it. they and the troops are on the sharp end.