So according to Sir David Omand, Tony Blair’s former security co-ordinator, the fabricated claim that Iraq could launch tactical weapons within 45-minutes was (and I quote) a “bit of local colour“.
This is now, presumably, government authorisation that we may all use statements that might be less-grounded in the world of facts, for ‘local colour’ purposes?
So I’m off to update my CV with the news that I have twenty-seven PhDs that include ones in: Thermonuclear Dynamics, Applied Lying Politics and Wheeltapping And Shunting.
Marvellous. Well done the British Government for showing the public what a magnificent bunch of lying bastards you are.
Might I add ‘unintended and relatively minor’ – the official word on £1,936 of George Osbourne’s erroneous expenses claim.
And so, as we face the dawn of a new political arc, I remember that 31st January spells self-assessment tax deadline day.
I look to our top level politicos as leaders by example.
I can’t manage words. Can I just make a noise please?
Shane, you poor deluded fool. I must try that ‘unintended and relatively minor’ line sometime.
Hilary, I think a colourful noise would be an excellent idea. Please make it so.
Sweet jesus, ‘a bit of local colour’? What colour precisely? Napalm brown? Ground to air missile orange? Everything’s-on-frigging-fire-and-the-US-have-just-flattened-my-house purple? Every time I think they can’t sink any lower and show any more contempt for the electorate I am unpleasantly surprised once again. I’ll be withholding my tax return this year with the colourful statement that I am in fact dead and any evidence to the contrary can be taken as me making an unintended and minor error when assessing my vital lifesigns.
That CV sounds a little like mine does at the moment 😉