Freudian slip of the century
The kindest explanation of this extraordinary gaffe by Labour's shadow Leader of the House is that it was the most unfortunate slip of the tongue any British parliamentarian has made in living memory .;.
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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I have been away most of this week, and have just noticed a comment on this thread which, unfortunately, I had no choice but to remove because it included a joke which I think exposed me to the risk of legal action if I didn't remove it.
Frankly I greatly dislike doing so because most of what is in that post is fair comment but unfortunately one of the three things implied by the joke was quite similar to an allegation for which the Leader of the Opposition did threaten to sue and the MP who had made the allegation was forced to issue a humiliating apology.
However, I think the serious comment made about the leader of the opposition by the author of the post comes under the heading of fair comment, so I will repeat it here. He wrote that he would not usually say something like the joke I had to remove, and then continued,
"But come on, if that man ever got to be PM, god forbid, but if he did, he would most likely knock HWSNBN right off the perch as worst PM ever."