Margaret Beckett put her oar in a couple of days ago about the Iran hostage crisis - "It was deplorable that the woman hostage should be shown smoking. This sends completely the wrong message to our young people.".
You couldn't make it up (and if anyone, very understandably, thinks I did, it was reported in Christopher Booker's column in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph.)
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Beckett Bombs
Ok, NL has done slavery. Twenty five years after the Falklands War we’re on another collective national guilt trip about Argentine Casualties. Margaret Beckett is leading the nation’s hand wringing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6515803.stm
As someone who lost a relative when the Sheffield was hit by an exocet, Beckett is welcome to kiss my @ss. If NL had been in power at the time, we’d have run a mile and said to General Leopoldo Galtieri, “ ‘ere, you have it mate, we don’t do war.”
I guess the next pile of cr@p to come from her will be a Reparation Day for Persia where we can all collectively screw ourselves up about Iran being a former member of the British Empire. We could have a national collection where we all chuck in a couple of bob to repay the Iranians for all the oil we used of theirs during WW2 as we fought Nazism.
Well, it might get the hostages released.
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