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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Labour prime ministers have a habit of denying things.

Nothing was ever Harold Wilson's fault, and the pound wasn't worth any less because he devalued it.
With Jim Callaghan it was a case of Crisis? What crisis?
Not for nothing was Blair nicknamed Teflon Tony.

Yesterday the nation's bankers were made to sit with their tails between their legs and say Sorry for the mess they're in.

Today it was Gordon's turn
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7884877.stm

No, the word just isn't in his vocabulary.
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Ron

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

One of the best examples of this that I've heard was on the Today programme on R4 in the latter days of the last Conservative administration.

A Government minister was being grilled by John Humphrys about the poor state of Britain's roads.

He responded by saying that it wasn't the Government's fault, as many local authorities were Labour-controlled, so really they were Labour Party roads.

LOL!

Ian.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

I wouldn't be surprised if that came up again, in reverse.

In the last fifteen years, many sections of trunk A-roads, which the Highways Agency maintain from central funding, have been delisted and responsibility handed down to local councils, many of which have changed political colour.

(When they tried that with a section of the A60 north of Nottingham, the local Labour council were on the ball and actually got the HA to resurface it before responsibility changed.)
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

I've lived here for 33 years and we're still waiting for the A69 Newcastle to Carlisle road to be dualled west of Hexham.

Several sections of the A1 north of Morpeth are still single carriageway, too.

Ian.