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The DPRK insults the British proletariat

Friday, July 24, 2009
Yes it has:

"The Korean people have stronger working class consciousness than any other people".

Oh aye. While the WPK swept the board in the DPRK's 'elections', Koreans on the other side of the 38th parallel would seem to have been exhibiting a truly shocking measure of false consciousness / embourgeoisement etc, in that the main socialist party, the Minju Nodong-dang or Democratic Labour Party, secured the princely total of five seats out of 299 in the last election. Half what it polled in 2004.

Meanwhile the DPRK / Hillary Clinton face off has made it onto the KCNA site, but alas this is now stale news. However, there is one small bone that has not been picked over:

"The DPRK has taken necessary measures to protect the nation's sovereignty and right to existence to cope with the U.S. hostile policy and nuclear threat, not to attract anyone's attention. The U.S., however, is taking the lead in making much ado about nothing".

Really? Curious then that the KCNA has had a front page link to news of the nuclear test for some weeks now:





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Trade unionists for /inequity/

Thursday, July 09, 2009
Yes, really:

"Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT:

“The Audit Commission is simply joining the long list of those who use the recession as an excuse to promulgate an anti-public services agenda, to privatise public services and to attack public service workers’ jobs, pay and pensions on the grounds that there should be ‘equity of misery’.

So that's alright then.

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Some more Parliamentary odds and ends

Thursday, June 04, 2009
Lucky old Hillary Benn:

Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many pig farms he has visited in his official capacity in the last 12 months.

Jane Kennedy [holding answer 1 June 2009]: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has visited two pig farms in the last 12 months.

Benn's a vegetarian.

Elsewhere, some EU-related nuggets:

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the proportion of domestic legislation which was enacted as a consequence of obligations arising from EU legislation in the latest period for which figures are available.

Caroline Flint: A House of Commons Library analysis of the effects of EU legislation on British law between 1998 and 2005 gave a figure of 9.1 per cent.

For all that those are fairly antique figures, the percentage is less than I would have thought.

Great uses of public money department:

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the estimated marginal cost to the UK Permanent Representation to the EU was of European Parliament plenaries taking place in Strasbourg in the last 12 months. [277080]

Caroline Flint: The estimated marginal cost of Strasbourg plenary sessions to the UK Permanent Representation to the EU for the past 12 months was around €65,000. The UK Permanent Representation, on behalf of the Government, engages regularly with the European Parliament, including the Strasbourg plenary sessions, in order to achieve the best outcome for the UK.

Philistines or prudent?:

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department has spent on artwork since November 2008. [276476]

Mr. Straw: Since November 2008 there has been no expenditure on artwork incurred by the Ministry of Justice HQ, the Office of the Public Guardian, nor the National Offender Management Service.


Asked about child poverty, Kitty Ussher could not give the answer sought, but did come up with 'Risk of living in relative (60 per cent. of median) low income poverty (AHC) for children by region and country (per cent.) three-year average'.

And the chart looks like this:


While I do not buy into the relative poverty argument, note that the People's Parties most loyal client regions have seen the strongest advances. I don't suppose those figures will be going into leaflets, posters, PPBs etc.

Away from written answers and on to debates:

Paddy Tipping (Sherwood) (Lab): I beg to move, that leave be given to bring in a Bill to prescribe the maximum wage that can be paid; and for connected purposes....Outside the Westminster village, away from the political classes, there is a growing demand for openness, fairness and justice, and we should listen and respond to it. So how would we set a maximum wage? There is a simple solution. We could say to everybody that no one should receive more than the Prime Minister—£194,000 a year....If we are sensible, we need to link the minimum wage to the maximum wage. For example, there is a strong case for arguing that the maximum wage should be 10 times the minimum wage. Based on £5.60 an hour, that would give a maximum wage of £120,000.


And so on.

I could make the point, yet again, that 'social justice' is envy soft-soaped into a higher virtue, but life is too short.

Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley) (Con) gave a rebuttal, "I shall certainly not call a vote, but this has to be one of the daftest ideas that I have heard in this House, and we specialise in them on occasion". There's more, but that's the best bit.

Tipping's fellow class warriors / economic illiterates are David Drew, Kelvin Hopkins, Judy Mallaber, Denis MacShane, Albert Owen, Ken Purchase, John Robertson and David Taylor.

MacShane may well be loathsome spotted reptile, but I did not have him down as a half-wit.

And a brief addendum from the Lords:

Baroness Greengross To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will commission research into how many people suffer from incontinence, and how many are likely to suffer from incontinence in 2030. [HL3939]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Lord Darzi of Denham): The department is currently funding research on a range of aspects of incontinence, but none specifically on prevalence. The department has no plans to commission research into the number of people suffering from incontinence.

Well, who would 'fess up to a clip board wielder, eh?




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Gillian Shephard, how could you?

Friday, May 15, 2009
La Shephard always struck me as decent, competent and sensible, but it looks as though she has somehow become one of the PM's 'useful idiots', in that she is on 'The panel on fair access to the professions', led by that oily chancer Milburn. This is its remit:

"The Panel on Fair Access to the Professions was announced on the 13th January 2009. The Panel will complement measures contained in the New Opportunities White Paper. The Panel will look at the processes and structures that govern recruitment into key professions. It will identify actions that the professions, supported by government where relevant, could undertake to improve access into professions. The Panel will run until summer 2009 supported by a secretariat based in the Cabinet Office".

Here is the list of other members, and it is full of all of the kind of people you would expect - Gail Rebuck, wife of Philip Gould (Labour peer), Elinor Goodman, Trevor Philips etc.

Anyway, this is the kind of quality 'research' it is coming up with:

"The Panel published new figures showing how Britain is divided when it comes to getting a professional career. In the North East England only one-third of the workforce are in professional or managerial jobs while in London it is over one-half".

Do I need to explain why that is the case?

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A brief observation on Sir Fred Goodwin

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The man has been demonised by politicians for weeks on end, with this lead followed with much vim by the media and thus parts of the public. Given that level of incitement, it is hardly surprising that some have seen fit to engage in criminal acts against his property. Doubtless there are some who would like to form a lynching party.

Envy, one might note, is a particularly loathsome state of mind, and I will not be at all surprised if there will be dog whistle messages of approval coming from some quarters of the commentariat. Were I Sir Fred, I would be booking a one way ticket out of here.

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The global middle class under the microscope

Friday, February 13, 2009
Pew Global has been quizzing the bourgeoisie and the proletariat of sundry nations as to values, alas not including questions as to dining and decor habits, but it is amusing nonetheless. Folk from these parts were not polled, which is unfortunate.

Freedom of speech emerges as more important to the middles than the workers world-wide, with the solid middle of Chile coming closest to glory in that 80% of them think it very important, compared to 68% of the workers. The figures in Malaysia are a frankly shocking 34/33,

Similarly, freedom of the press matters most to Chileans - 76/68 and the Egyptians - 77/77. Given that the Egyptian press is far from free, that is quite heartening. The Malaysians disrace themselves - 35/31, as do Russians - 46/37. The biggest gap is in Poland - 60/42.

Freedom of religion is key for Egyptians - 92/90. I think I can be excused a hollow laugh at this point. Russians are the least bothered - 50/42.

When offered freedom of speech or 'freedom from poverty', white collars deem the former morte important and blue collars the latter.

Acceptance of homosexuality is more common with middles than workers in most countries, except Argentina - 70/75. The biggest disconnect is in Bulgaria - 50/34.

More later, probably.

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Getting your excuses in early

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Or 'It's a fair cop, but society is to blame' or 'hose everything down with taxpayers' money'.

This from the NASUWT, generally regarded as the more moderate of the main teaching unions, (formerly headed by Nigel De Gruchy, famous for his 'so draconian it would shame Dracula' gaffe of many years ago):

  • school staff felt that living in run-down areas encourages pupils to carry out minor crimes, such as vandalism and graffiti;
  • substandard housing, a lack of play areas and insecure school sites were all felt to have a negative impact on pupil behaviour and achievement;
  • areas with low quality housing tend to have highly transient populations, which has a negative impact on schools’ ability to meet education standards and promote positive pupil behaviour. It can also lead to demotivation among teaching staff and high staff turnover;
  • schools in deprived areas are under pressure to play a larger role in the community by hosting services and facilities for families. This can detract from teaching and stretch schools’ capacity;
Or in other words, it does not matter how much more money is thrown at education unless a Socialist New Jerusalem is built at the same time. Funny how pupils in the undeveloped world seem to behave and learn when the only teaching tools at a teacher's command are a blackboard and a stick of chalk.

Anyway, nothing like sticking to one's knitting, is there?

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The TUC makes the bed for Procrustes. Same linen though.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
If our delightful PM will make class war dog whistles to his pay masters, this kind of thing is not to be unexpected, is it?:

"'But evidence shows that social mobility is greatest in societies with low levels of income inequality. For everyone to have an equal chance of success there needs to be a much smaller gap between rich and poor in the first place".


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Socially mixed neighbourhoods...

Monday, December 08, 2008
Every once in a while, someone will claim that areas benefit from a broad social mix. Maybe so, although now is the time for examining that proposition. The assumption by those claiming it is that the well-off leave areas because they are fearful snobs (in the debased sense) and want to be with their own, abandoning those lower on the economic food chain and failing to set a good example yadda yadda.

Anyway, a piece of research published by Pew Global upends this, to a degree at least:

It turns out that the US socio-economic group keenest on 'socio-economic diversity' are those on $100,000 plus and the least enthused are those on $30,000 or less. Evidently, what people do and what they say may well not be one and the same, and for all I know the comparatively wealthy are all for neighbourhood 'socio-economic diversity' because it makes hiring cleaners, pool boys and the like easier.

In other findings, Liberal Democrats are keenest on neighbourhood diversity in political opinion (65%) and Conservative Republicans the least (49%) while black folk are keener on ethnic diversity (83%) than Hispanics (69%) or Whites (60%)

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TUC calls for unsustainable investment

Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Yes they have:

"The TUC has today (Wednesday) welcomed hints that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to suspend the 'golden rule' or 'sustainable investment rule' on limiting government borrowing".

(Now we all know that 'investment' is Labour speak for 'spending', but if Brown, Darling and the TUC are going to offer me stationary waterfowl, I am going to shoot)

And a bit of class war too:

"The Chancellor should be looking to put more money into the pockets of ordinary people by cracking down on the tax loopholes used by the super-rich - many of whom made millions from the speculative bubble that has now burst."

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TUC to world - unions should be above the law

Saturday, September 27, 2008
Yes, that's what they are saying, via the European Trade Union Confederation, of which it is part:

"The ETUC therefore calls on Europe to fight for workers' rights, for fair and decent wages, for stable jobs and for strong collective bargaining practice, independent of and not subordinated to law courts and judges".

That is just one part of a frankly extraordinary document to which it has put its mark, 'The London Declaration: a call for fairness and tough action'.

Its laundry list of demands in the face of current market turmoil (which is all down to the markets, not interference by government, natch) includes the following:

"injections of public money into financial institutions that carry with them public influence and control so causing a fundamental change in behaviour"

Or in other words back door pseudo-nationalisation of banks, pension funds, insurance companies and old Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all.

"much tighter control of financial institutions' ability to leverage their operations, by strengthening the ratios of solid assets to liabilities"

Thus choking of the ability of said FI's to invest, create wealth etc etc. Sounds like a return to a seventies style socialist siege economy to me.

"an international, certainly European, level of effective regulation. This is necessitated by the scale of global financial capitalism which now transcends most individual nations. A European Ratings Agency is necessary"

And how do they intend to force the Swiss into this? If this is pan-EU, the gnomes of Zurich will be the biggest European beneficiaries, although our sensible EU shunning friends in more northerly climes might also be well placed to kickstart serious financial services industries.

"government action to ensure that funds are available for investment in the real economy, helping develop green jobs and technologies and sustainable development"

From the wonderful people who brought us Concorde, British Leyland, the Channel Tunnel and all sorts of other destroyers of capital. I'm sure that Brown and his homunculi would be just as good at picking winners as his fellow socialists in the past. I've always loved the phrase 'the real economy' impying as it does that banking and the like are not as dignified and horny-handed a way to make a living as digging coal. Not that that is very green, is it?

"help provided for workers affected, for householders threatened by eviction, for pensioners threatened with poverty in old age, for entrepreneurs seeking investment capital. (Yes, they did say that. Chutzpah doesn't come close) It is not fair that the main beneficiaries might be those who caused the mess".

So everybody wins, nobody loses. That is so going to happen.

a European-level response to the slowdown that is unfolding in the real economy to prevent the financial turmoil intensifying further as well as to avoid a return to the 'beggar-my-neighbour' approach of competitive wage moderation and reductions in social protection which harm workers and their families;

Thought they didn't believe in zero sum games. Anyway, who's afraid of hyper inflation?

"urgent return of public policy attention to the major issues of income and wage inequalities. It is inequality and poor wage income for ordinary workers that are driving households into ever more debt through risky financial market techniques".

And not people being responsible for their own actions?


Good job they are crying in the wilderness. I hope.

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Purnell's next move?

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
What with class war and messing around with business being les plats du jour for the goverment at the moment, maybe Purnell will be taking tips from his Indian counterpart:

"[ Labour Minister Oscar] Fernandes had said "simmering discontent" among workers might be the reason behind the killing of Italy-based company Graziano CEO L K Chaudhury at his Greater Noida office. (as noted a day or so back)

He had also said there were disparities in the wages of permanent employees and contract workers and felt that workers should not be pushed so hard that they resort to whatever has happened in Noida".

He's since apologised and claimed he was 'misunderstood'. Yeah, right.

C'mon James, it will play well with the activists, and you've already lost the C-Suite vote.

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One-time Communist trade unionist speaks on capitalism

Monday, September 22, 2008
This being Deek Simpson of Unite. And he doesn't like it much:

"If you can’t regulated (sic) the bonus culture then tax it out of existence"

Righty-ho. The Masters of the Universe who make most of their scratch from bonuses rather than a salary will really take that one lying down. Two things will happen - firstly there will be a re-jigging of emoluments, and then capital, talent and an awful of taxable funds will be outta here in next to no time.

Now I expect the politics of emerald green envy from Simpson, but it gets sillier:

"Unite called for jobs to be protected in the Northern Rock crisis, sadly they were not and around 2,000 staff paid the price. In return for suspending the competition rules Lloyds TSB should be required by our government to develop a new business plan that includes the retention of current levels of staff".

Northern Rock is not even worth discussing as the bale out was based on little more logic than protecting MPs in the North East and the client vote in those parts. As to Lloyds-TSB-HBOS or whatever it ends up calling itself (1) (Lloyds is quite snappy), 'business plan that includes the retention of current levels of staff' will see the deal called off or else for LTH to be crippled and thus a target itself.


(1) It is getting as bad as 1980's ad agencies. My favourite being the unfortunate telephonists who had to trill 'Good morning, WCRS Matthews Marcantonio Della Femina Bell'

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And this week's brass neck award goes to....

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Harriet Harman. And come to that, the brass torso, arms, legs, head etc. Although I suspect she has feet of clay.

And for why?

Because of what she will say to the TUC later today, apparently:

""We have made great progress on tackling inequality but we know that inequality doesn't just come from your gender, race, sexual orientation or disability. What overarches all of these is where you live, your family background, your wealth and social class. To advance equality through our public policy, we need clarity of evidence and focus on the gaps in society and how they have changed over the last 10 years".

Is this the Harriet Harman, the Pauline and niece of the seventh Earl of Longford?

Yes it is.

Is this the Harriet Harman who sent her progeny to London Oratory and St Olave's Grammar, both a long way from the Harman / Dromey abode?

Yes it is.

I think she's a class traitor....

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Soft soaping envy into a cardinal virtue

Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Showing all the comic timing of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the TUC has decided that a day on which it has been revealed that the number of 40% rate tax payers has doubled in 10 years is just the day to squawk about 'tax justice'.

In the same way that these days envy is called 'a burning desire for social justice', fiscal class war is called 'tax justice'. Despite claiming to offer the full figures from a survey on attitudes to tax, the TUC does not, so I will have to tease out what I can from its press release. And there are some truly fabulous leaps in logic:

"The polling...shows that only seven per cent of people think that 'Britain's tax system gets the balance right between the amount of tax paid by the rich, the poor and those in the middle'. Even among those with household incomes of more than £100,000 only 13 per cent think the balance is right". And in TUC-think, that means that 87% think they are paying too much. Yeah, right.

And there's more:

"Three quarters of those polled (75 per cent) agree that 'it is too easy for very rich people to get out of paying a fair level of tax' (including 43 per cent who strongly agree)."

This conflates knowledge that tax can be avoided with a moral stance on it.

"The public also thinks it is too easy for big companies to get out of paying tax and thinks that the Government is wrong to reduce tax on large companies".

The public suffers from a less than full understanding of commerce, and does not seem to have twigged that taxing companies is not some manner of fiscal free lunch and would lead to increased prices, lower wages and all sorts of other things they would not like at all.

And what does the TUC want to happen?

This: "Creating a fairer tax system does not mean a higher tax bill for ordinary workers. Instead, clamping down on tax avoidance and closing the loopholes enjoyed by the super-rich will put extra revenue into ordinary peoples' pockets or pay for our hard-pressed public services".

There is only response to the suggestion that the TUC would support tax cuts for Joe & Josie Average - come off it. One might add that Barber seems to think that the hedge fund managers, footballers and others that he wants to fleece will just stay in the UK. Maybe someone needs to send him the Ladybird Book of Laffer Curves or somesuch.

Anyway, the TUC has rounded up the usual suspects to 'debate' this subject, ranging from Polly 'my house is so big that if broken into flats I could solve the London housing crisis' Toynbee to the tin-rattling wings of the Left - Oxfam, War on Want etc etc - and sundry wonk groups - Compass, ippr etc. If all the people in attendance could be persuaded to leave the UK, permanently, this place would be improved immeasurably.

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Another EU landgrab in the offing?

Saturday, May 24, 2008
I can't say I was familiar with Joaquin Almunia, the Commissar for Economic and Monetary Affairs. However, the Spanish Socialist is far from shy when it comes to expressing opinions on matters wholly outside his purview.

He does not like some executive pay awards, as reported by the FAZ: "In my opinion some salaries are completely irresponsible".

The man has form as a leftie, including a stint as director of the research program on 'Equality and redistribution of income'. I think it as well to concentrate on baking the cake before worrying about who gets the biggest slice. Naturally, he has never worked in the wealth producing sector .

While it is dispiriting that the Economic Commissar thinks this way, consider also Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the Eurozone Finance Ministers group, and the head of what counts as the right wing party in Luxembourg:

"On May 14...[he] said his colleagues were considering ways to clamp down on “scandalous” pay packages for senior executives. Terming huge compensation schemes “quite scandalous” and a “social scourge,” Juncker said finance ministers were in particular looking to plug loopholes that allowed tax deductions on generous severance packages in many countries".

Good grief. If Luxembourg Christian Democrats do envy politics and fancy a maximum wage, I fear to think what their socialists are like.

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Incitement to class hatred...

Thursday, May 22, 2008
Continuing on from what I was saying yesterday, here is a filleting out of salient comments from a Brendan Barber speech last night:

"Britain's workers increasingly feel an acute sense of unfairness - aware that the spoils of corporate growth, of record profitability, are being creamed off by a tiny elite while pay rises for everyone else struggle to keep pace with the true cost of living".

....

There is a growing sense that the Square Mile is enjoying almost limitless power; yet sometimes behaves without responsibility. A small City elite of investment bankers, hedge fund managers and private equity partners are enjoying riches beyond the dreams of avarice, while outsourcing the risks to the rest of us - taking one way bets they know they can't lose'.

And ordinary working people - whether they are heartland trade unionists or Daily Mail readers in marginal seats - increasingly feel they have no stake in this casino capitalism. They are angry that they are struggling to pay the bills as a super-rich minority is allowed to float free from the rest of society. Angry that they pay proportionately more tax than people whose earnings are a hundred or even a thousand times greater. And angry that they are now paying the price for the profligacy of others, with public money propping up the markets while billions are still being paid out in bonuses.'

I would unpick all of the errors of fact but lack either the time or the energy. However, as a short cut, try changing 'elite' and 'minority' with the demographic of your choice and see how it reads.

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The politics of envy

Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Are alive and kicking - with some vigour - on the eastern bank of the Rhine:

"Some 68 percent of those [polled] were for a ceiling on salaries for well-paid managers, whereas only 29 percent were opposed. In former communist eastern Germany a whopping 77 percent backed capping what corporate fat cats make. The survey...comes amid a political debate in Germany whether the government should try put prohibitive taxes on high salaries to discourage widening income disparity".

Note the procrustean approach here. Nothing to do with whether the salaries are justified or not, but rather that they should have a ceiling set in the interests of 'social justice'.

One might note that the CDU/CSU polled 35% at the last election, and the FDP (Genschman's old lot) 10%, so there are some very confused conservatives & liberals.

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The trouble with point scoring

Monday, March 10, 2008
Wading through an extraordinarily predictable debate on women in Parliament, I came across this:

"Lynda Waltho (Stourbridge) (Lab): I am impressed with the right hon. Lady’s words, but will she expand on the figures? How many of those selected women will be candidates in winnable Tory seats? How many of them will be normal working-class women who do not have Ashcroft money or are millionaires in their own right?".

And what is there to be said of the extraordinarily undistinguished MP for Stourbridge, and almost certain one term MP (majority of 407.) before obscurity proffers a hand? Interesting too that she seems to think society divides women into horny-handed daughters of toil and self made millionaires.

Anyway, doubtless numerous teachers and wonks will be pleased / miffed that she considers such lines of work to be authentically proletarian, those having been her previous lines of work. And what does the UK Polling Report have to say about Stourbridge:

"Stourbridge is a suburban dormitory area on the edge of the West Midlands conurbation - while the seat is mainly urban, it borders onto open countryside just over the border in South Staffordshire. Largely white, lower middle-class, owner-occupied former council houses and large scale new-build private estates, especially in Amblecote".

So I can only presume that Waltho will bigging up her prole 'credentials' when touring the large scale new-build private estates etc and stirring up class war at every available opportunity.

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Great typos of our time.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
From today's Evening Standard (physical edition), opining on Livingstone's congestion charge shenanigans:

"Today's announcement is one of his *queerest* 'class war' policies in his eight years at City Hall". (my emphasis).

Erm, 'queerest' as in odd? Nope, all too sadly predictable. 'Queerest' in sense of aimed at gentlemen who prefer gentlemen (in either derogatory or reclaimed sense of queer)? No, can't see that either.

And there's more - the writer speaks of the election offering voters 'a queer choice'. I think someone has been playing with his autocorrects.

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