I’m still in shock following Ann Widdecombe’s recent 3 part TV series, ‘… Verses’. Maybe this politician has found a sense of humour and gone into satire, but I doubt it. Maybe she was hoodwinked by ITV, but I doubt that even less.
So okay, there was Ann telling a heroin addict young prostitute to go back to her mother; telling the long term out of work to get a job … As if it’s as easy as that. The naivety was stunning and her antidote to social ills found only in extreme right wing fairy tales.
Ann, it seems, believes a liberal tyranny is ruining Britain, and that is why she is the new moral crusader. Well, Ann, I couldn’t agree more. But countering it by going to the exact opposite is not the answer. There is something called the middle ground.
I fear, Ann, that you have now done your bit to make sure the ‘liberal tyranny’ continues.
© Anthony North, September 2007
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September 5, 2007 at 4:19 pm |
Isn’t the series called ‘versus’ rather than ‘verses’? Its adversarial tone is set right there, in the title.
As far as middle ground is concerned, Tories and Labour, sorry New Labour, look so alike in other policies that anti-bleeding heart is the only way forward for the Tories it seems.
Thanks.
September 5, 2007 at 9:09 pm |
Damn, two typos in one week.