Subj : Re: hey euro-brits!
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Steve Brooks
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 07:51:25

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson wrote:
> 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?)

He would have Lamb and Lennox-Brown to help him.

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SB

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