Brilliant, especially this bit, "Conservative leader David Davis said that his party would fully support the government's proposals."

Great piece. Loved the Blunket quote especially.

He's caught the BBC's style to perfection - let alone's Bliars!

For a moment then I thought it was a spoof...

Isn't this from the blog of the same Owen who thinks everyone on Samizdata is racist for daring to suggest that African agriculture might not be up to western standards?

Just curious. Otherwise - fun read.

He certainly got Phony Bliar's hissy syntax down pat.

Priceless, so much skewering there. I love the bit at the bottom about the Scottish MP supporting the act when it doesn't affect Scotland. :)

I've often wondered, given his age and his actions, whether Blair isn't influenced by Brian Crozier's paean to authoritarian government The Minimum State: Beyond party politics. Certainly it is a concise statement of the security forces' creed as it emerged from the Cold War: people can't be trusted to be free beyond well-defined boundaries; legislature and judiciary should serve the "national interest" not provide channels for untidy conflicting interests.

There are great rhetorical similarities between what we are being offered now and that of the Latin American national security state of the 70s. Corporatism too is in fashion. Perhaps we are drifting to a whole-hog adoption of a chilly version of the Brazilian patronage model, where a bloated welfare state still exists but ignores the poor, having as its function is the welfare of the state itself. We already see redistribution of the fruits of heavy taxation to the governing caste, their corporate hangers-on and a middle-class clientele, inhabiting a rococco profusion of self-seeding bureaucracies.

Ironically, the fact that Blair has won three times led me to question whether elections were such a good idea after all. Just as his guardianship (no, vandalisation) of our unwritten constitution made me think that there may be an argument for a written one.

More like this please. Thanks!

An absolute belter! Made me giggle this morning.

It fails as satire because most people under 40 now realise elections are a load of toss anyway. The farce of democracy is rapidly playing itself out.

Did you spot that this was created by Tony Blair's former Private Secretary for Economic Affairs?

No wonder he had Blair's sleazy, hissy way of speaking down pat.

I see he also worked for Kofi Anan. Only the best.

Too close to the bone altogether.

Chilling.