http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2009/12/27/jack-straw-and-tessa-jowell-are-utter-berks/ "We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down" - Aneurin Bevan, 1953 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:06:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2009/12/27/jack-straw-and-tessa-jowell-are-utter-berks/#comment-4123 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:29:05 +0000 http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/?p=1790#comment-4123 [...] Jowell misses in her nonsense about ‘hideous’ ‘class war’ (reported on by Dave earlier).  By playing the one nation card at this stage, he is effectively admitting the Tories [...]

]]> http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2009/12/27/jack-straw-and-tessa-jowell-are-utter-berks/#comment-4120 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:25:42 +0000 http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/?p=1790#comment-4120 So far as personalising is a mistake, I’d agree. We want it to be seen in broader terms of who has the broadest shoulders, etc. I’m sure this isn’t what Tessa is getting at, however…

]]> http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2009/12/27/jack-straw-and-tessa-jowell-are-utter-berks/#comment-4117 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:30:44 +0000 http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/?p=1790#comment-4117 Well, let’s look on the bright side. At least there appears to be some kind of dividing line being drawn in the hierarchy and that creates some kind of opportunity for debate about what ‘class war’ actually is, and why its appropriation as a term means it always appears in inverted commas. Who’d have thought that the term would take up so many column inches?

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