The New Normal

Once upon a time, round about 1940-41, when Britain was at war with a genuinely scary and capable regime that had occupied most of Western Europe and was bombing British cities on a nightly basis; virtually unopposed with an eventual death toll of something like 60,000 civilians, government posters like this were all the rage...




As discussed in this blog and elsewhere, things are a little different these days and our government and other interest groups with a stake in the War on Terror now fall over themselves to out-compete with the shadowy terrorists in trying to scare the crap out of people

This is the 'New Normal' that the likes of the 'Dame Pauline Neville-Jones Fan Club' of ex (sic.) spooks, cops and Lobbyists claim we now have to live with

Fuck 'em...

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and on the subject of exponents of the 'New Normal', someone calling himself Peter Power has waded in to the ongoing shenanigans associated with Peter Power's Wikipedia entry....

Cmain (talk) 11:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC) : You may say that you are not answerable to J7, but so long as you serve, by your news media appearances, as a propagandist for an increasingly secretive and repressive state we consider you a legitimate subject for our scrutiny.

Peterpowervisor (talk) 21:45, 7 March 2008 (UTC): So I am a "propagandist for an increasingly secretive and repressive state". Gosh.--

Admirers of quality British Romantic-Comedies will instantly recognize that 'Peter' has attempted to employ the Hugh Grant Debating Manoeuvre which simply involves repeating what the other bloke says and sticking 'Gosh' on the end. Unfortunately, this does not really qualify as a counter-argument and is probably best not relied upon as a defence when actually accused of anything serious or, come to think about it, anything not so serious either...

Gosh.--

edit: Hugh Grant in Richard CurtisLand (his finest work imho)...




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