Man in a Shed: When spin becomes a criminal offence !

Monday, December 18, 2006

When spin becomes a criminal offence !

Man in a Shed has for a long time thought that Blair is holding on to office for fear of something worse.

Spin and control of information can become criminal offences - as the Times is reporting today (link via Conservative Home - also see my earlier reading of a First Post article suggesting data capture and deletion may be NuLabour's undoing).

I still would like to see Blair prosecuted for misleading the country over Iraq - but if he gets done for something else first then I won't be disappointed.

3 comments:

Bag said...: Let's just do a Saddam. One trial followed by another and as the information flows there may be more.; 7:48 pm
Man in a Shed said...: However even I don't think Balir will eventually hang. ( Though its worth noting some medical observers think he's not that well.); 8:02 pm
Anonymous said...: There is no need to hang Blair. The disgrace and the collapse of his 'legacy' (I cannot imagine what he thinks that is? A decade of power and what to show for it?) will be sufficient.; 10:41 pm

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