Pointless Lib Dem makes pointless remark
Seemingly desperate to be offended, Lib Dem MP Bob Russell is in shock at the behaviour of the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman. But what, prey tell, could the PMOS have done to have had such a malicious effect on poor, sensitive Bob Russell?Having eaten babies for breakfast and then dissembled to assembled journos at lunchtime, the PMOS then, at the PM lobby, proceeded to refer to the 'black economy'.
Bob Russell spoke to Gallery News, " I am shocked that Downing Street uses the reference 'black economy' - this term was dropped years ago, certainly by state organisations like Customs and Excise, to the more sensitively acceptable term 'grey economy' or 'shadow economy'.
Bob said" The term 'black economy' has racial overtones. Downing Street is thus politically incorrect to use this term."
Words can, of course, injure and outdated terms can prove insensitive but surely Bob Russell is the only one to be 'shocked' by the PMOS' reference?
Of course, if he is shocked by such careless language then he dare not look at some Lib Dem material from, erm, yesterday. Responding to John Reid’s announcement of limits on Bulgarians’ and Romanians’ right to work in the UK, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Nick Clegg MP said:
Bob had also better have a lay-down just in case he chances upon the following from other Lib Dem sources..."First, the danger of discriminating against all non-EU low skilled
migrants is that they will be simply driven underground into the black economy and the hands of exploitative gangmasters".
Liz Lynne, Lib Dem MEP and Employment Spokesperson in the European Parliament, said in her press release of 2 June 2006, "We must clamp down on the black economy, not encourage it."
Enfield Lib Dems, meanwhile, reporting on the Lib Dem stall at the Autumn fair, said on September 13 2006: "We discussed a range of issues with local residents....concerns regarding people avoiding income tax through off-shore payments and the thriving local black economy were but a few."
So it appears that if its the political incorrect you're after, it might be best to check out those Lib Dems after all.
posted by The Thimble @ 17:18
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Consistency from the philosophically flexible Lib Dems, not likely is it?
Indeed, it would be an unlikely prospect. I am still surprised though by the superior air adopted by the average Lib Dem (and, my God, they are average) who believes they are a principled party, which is also, somehow, beyond politics (which is what the old 'beyond left and right' guff is all about). It drives me to scream at the telly every time I see a Lib Dem on the box which surely isn't a healthy reaction...
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