Subj : Re: hey euro-brits!
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 03:57:34

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John Iwaniszek wrote:

> Congratulations on your new security adviser!  Once again you show us
> up. 
> 
> 
> 'He was permanent secretary at the Department of Transport when, on 
> September 11 2001, Jo Moore, an aide to Stephen Byers, then secretary of
> state, told officials in an email that it would be "a very good day" to 
> "get out anything we want to bury". A few months later, in February
> 2002, Ms Moore and Martin Sixsmith, the department's director of
> communications, allegedly discussed whether the day of Princess
> Margaret's funeral would be a good time to release potentially damaging
> figures about the state of the railways.

Surely this is par for the course for government press releases the world 
over. Release bad news at the least inconvenient time. 

> (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1580619,00.html)
> 
> If only this administration could produce someone so forthright.  
> Unfortunately it is filled with Moores and Sixsmiths, and they only have
> their own interests at heart.  We're all fucked... etc.
> 

I think they should get the Permanent Secreteary of the Ministry of 
Administraive Affairs. That would show everyone.

(Anyone? Anyone?)

-- 
Jim

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