Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Quote of the Day

From one of today's lobby briefings:

The Prime Minister chaired Cabinet at which Transport Secretary Lord Adonis gave a presentation of the UK high speed rail future, said the spokesman. Lord Adonis received 'a ripple of applause' after he called himself 'the Thin Controller', said the spokesman, a reference to the Fat Controller of the Thomas the Tank Engine books.

" How is John Prescott, " asked a correspondent.

" Always in our thoughts, " replied the spokesman.
Smirk.

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at 17:43

 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

TB, this is off-topic I know, but I would like to see you blog about

this story
; the government quango dragging a political party into court a few weeks before an election in order to force it to admit people hostile to its reason to exist. It may be an intra-socialist quarrel, but for Labour to do this -- and who can doubt such a move must have government backing -- means that they are trying to win the election through the courts, not at the ballot box. Do you want to wait until expressing opposition to other PC objectives is also illegal to put to the electorate? Never mind what the BNP is -- this is election tampering of the sort we see in the third-world. Why is there no outcry?

9 March 2010 20:43
 
Paul
said...

And there was me thinking the fat controller was Eric '37miles' Pickles.

10 March 2010 12:13
 
Tom
said...

Not to be confused with the Fat ControlFreak, currently residing in 10 Downing Street.

13 March 2010 00:49
 

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