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Something lacking in her education

posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 09:04am on 24/01/2008
“It won’t be hypothetical if and when it occurs.”

— Home Secretary Jaqui Smith, arguing on the Today programme for legislation to be able to hold suspects for up to 42 days.

Would somebody buy the Home Secretary a dictionary?
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posted by [identity profile] lil-shepherd.livejournal.com at 09:29am on 24/01/2008
I thought that, whatever your political stance, the Home Secretary came over as inarticulate, and completely illogical. I doubt she made many converts or friends among the Today Radio 4 democraphic which, if it cares about nothing else, cares about the use and misuse of language.
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posted by [identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com at 09:29am on 24/01/2008
LOL I made exactly that comment.
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posted by [personal profile] cdave at 10:03am on 24/01/2008
The media training she's had probably told her not to back down when she's said something firmly (which is daft when you've made a logical error). It still doesn't explain her initial answer.

"Are you legislating for a hypothetical situation"
"No. We just want to be ready ..."

Could just as easily have been.
"Yes. We just want to be ready ..."

I can't see her problem with that phrase. It would be legislation for a situation that has never arisen.
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 12:59pm on 24/01/2008
Listening to it right now... initially, I thought that perhaps she was trying to say that the risks were not hypothetical, because I try to give people some benefit of the doubt. But then she just lost me, especially when she started to say that the bill was for extenuating circumstances that the contingencies act couldn't cover because to use it required ... really special extenuating circumstances. Sounds like she's been taking lessons from our lot.
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posted by [personal profile] matgb at 02:11pm on 24/01/2008
Aye, we were listening, I was half asleep and had no idea who it was, but heard the words and my brain switched on and forced me awake (I should've been anyway).

She really is completely clueless isn't she? What is it with Labour Home Secs?
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