Or so we thought - because it was a complete wash-out! Scrawny animals, poor health and safety and lamentable catering! And Rolf Harris couldn't make it (not for the first time), so we got Antony Worrall Thompson instead and he made a good fist of entertaining my followers and children with some fun recipes. His appalling burgers aside, we had a pretty interesting chat about the EU and this confirmed that we are political bedfellows. Not sure the children quite understood the ins and outs of the European Medicines Evaluation Agency’s consultation package and its draft guidelines on the readability of the label and package leaflet of medicinal products for human use (for the record, European Directive 2004/27/EC modified the previous Directive 2001/83/EC – why!) but then it's never too early to be alerted to yet another manifestation of the pan-European leviathan and those Federalist bullies who are trying to buy us out of our own country.
It was also good opportunity to engage with party workers and activists. I believe they all returned to their constituencies preparing for action in 2007!
The Cheek of It
Auntie Beeb was predictably very excited about its latest hour-long episode of its political satire “The Thick of It”.
“Thick” was the right word. I would never allow that amount of swearing from members of my entourage, advice or no advice. Even John Reid and Nicholas Soames would have blushed at some of the expletives used in this “comedy” about government. Seriously though, it’s easy to ridicule the machinery of government but I think "Thick" represents a corrosive threat to our national identity. The Prime Minister may have his faults, but he would not appoint such a foul-mouthed rabble to the high offices of this country and I think this is a concerted effort by the liberal media to undermine our confidence in the ongoing war on terror.
Raining on Khat and Dogs
Speaking of which, I note with interest that the US Air Force has been targeting Islamists in the shattered land of Somalia.
All I can say is: “About time, George!” Those of us with African blood still wretch at the deadly and evil attacks on the US Tanzanian and Kenyan embassies, and, Clinton’s “problems” aside, I wonder why it took the market leaders the best part of a decade to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Somalia is part of the Arab League, even though it is barely a country and they are not even Arabs. Why should failed states such as these continue to drag the main players down, good leaders like President Mubarak, the Transjordan’s King Abdullah and the obedient guys in the Gulf? Mogadishu has been belching on its commitments to open up its prime Indian Ocean and Red Sea coastline to development for years now, while the Italian colony-era buildings remain unconverted. My advice? Give the tribal leaders a lesson in capitalism while flushing out the Bin Laden sympathizers, then we can talk business.
(originally published 15 January 2007)
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