Comments on: David Cameron’s post-bureaucratic fantasy

By: Francis Sedgemore

Francis Sedgemore — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:38:26 +0000

In that case I’m going to leave you hangin’ there, Alec. But don’t lose any sleep over it, there’s a good chap.

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:34:26 +0000

Noo-nah would mean you ain’t not advocating it… please, this is important!

By: Francis Sedgemore

Francis Sedgemore — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:18:59 +0000

“that’s Stalinism, surely? 5-year plan, anybody?”

Stalinism is putting it a little too strongly. I don’t think that a bunch of English public school graduates can hope to match Stalinism for ruthless efficiency and political competence.

By: Francis Sedgemore

Francis Sedgemore — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:16:53 +0000

“Would you say in response, uh-huh or nuh-huh?”

Noo-nah. But then I could be lying, and secretly hoping for a Tory government on the grounds that it brings closer the political apocalypse and self-destruction of the so-called United Kingdom.

Whatever my motives for commenting thus, I do regard a Tory victory in the next general election as inevitable. This is not Sweden, the English are weird, and you have to admit that social democracy as practised in these isles is a bit crap.

By: Gadjo Dilo

Gadjo Dilo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:44:19 +0000

A “big and quick controllable cultural change” – that’s Stalinism, surely? 5-year plan, anybody?

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:52:19 +0000

Would you say in response, uh-huh or nuh-huh?

By: Francis Sedgemore

Francis Sedgemore — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:33:43 +0000

You can.

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:31:49 +0000

I’m sorry, Francis, can I check that you’re not advocating a Tory Government?