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Re: david blunkett

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2002 6:15 pm
by jj
.....'ere, who said that?
Come on, you bastard, if yer hard enough............oh fuck, tripped over me guide-dog again..........bugger.......ouch.
Where's me bleeding stick?

Re: david blunkett

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2002 6:17 pm
by jj
I don't think so.
Care to quote an example in opposition to my theory?

Re: david blunkett

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2002 6:18 pm
by alec
I can't remember his progress, i.e. from left to right or vice versa or none at all, but it was under his term in office that various laws were liberalised, e.g. those on homosexuality.

Re: david blunkett

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2002 6:47 pm
by woodgnome
he abolished theatre censorhip (the lord chamberlain, etc); decriminalised homosexuality; legalised abortion; reformed the obscene publications act (effectively, decensored literature); liberalised the divorce laws; abolished the death penalty.

not a bad record, imo.

Re: david blunkett

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2002 3:45 pm
by jj
OK- you win on that one (and he would have made a brilliant PM !).
But one swallow............my generalisation still holds true.