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Having it both ways

July 13th, 2012 · Posted by Skuds in Politics · 6 Comments · Politics

The other day I had the dubious pleasure of watching PMQs, since I was off work. A very grubby spectacle that nobody ever seems to come out of well, least of all that mad shouty woman with her arm in a sling. It consists of questions that often aren’t really questions and answers that aren’t really answers, but the MPs seem to like it for some reason.

Most of the answers to Miliband’s questions seemed to be pre-prepared lists of Tory acheivements that were going to be reeled off whatever the question was, and amongst that list was something about the successful completion of the Olympic park. I thought at the time it was a bit cheeky to try and claim credit for a ten-year project when you have only been in charge for the last two years, though I wasn’t surprised.

A day later and there is a bit of fuss about the security contractors not being up to scratch and troops having to come in and fill the gaps and the government are trying to lay the blame on the previous administration since they let the contracts.

Regardless of the merits of either argument, it takes a lot of chutzpah to try and claim the credit for everything that goes right and blame someone else for the bits that go wrong. If two years in charge is long enough to be resonsible for the building work, why isn’t it enough to be responsible for the security?

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  • Eva in Athens, Greece

    Hi Skud!
    I’ve made a fb page for my friends who has the Mylos taverna in Gouves. Is it possible that I can borrow your photo of their restaurant and maybe some other from Gouves if you have and then I’ll put a link next to it/them?
    https://www.facebook.com/MylosTaverna
    Sincerely
    Eva

  • Skuds

    Course you can. All my photos are at Flickr.com/photos/skuds
    Most of the Gouves photos are tagged so you can search http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=89273442@N00&q=gouves

  • Eva in Athens, Greece

    Hello again!
    Thanks a lot! I don’t know how to do it though. I tried the share button, but it’s coming up like a link… I would like so very much to put them like the other photos, so that you can really see them at “our” page… Is it possible that you mark the 4 pictures I’m interested in with your name and then I’ll also put a link next to them…? Please…!? The pictures I’m interested in are IMG_1718 Hill, Mylos taverna at dawn and the other two are the ones with you and your wife with Mylos taverna in the background.
    I hope you’ll let me and in that case send them to my mail grekisksallas(a)hotmail.com. If it’s not possible I’ll put the links, or at least the link for the picture of the taverna, but it will not be the same…
    Eva

  • Eva in Athens, Greece

    ooops, wrong e-mail! grekisksallad(a)hotmail.com

  • Gordon Seekings

    You said “If two years in charge is long enough to be responsible for the building work, why isn’t it enough to be responsible for the security?”

    The answer for the security can be summed up in one name “John Reid”. He was the Labour Home Secretary who actually signed the Olympic Security Contract; now sits as an (unelected) member of the Labour group in the House of Lords at taxpayers expense – and is now on the Board of Directors at, you’ve guessed it, G4S.

    Oh what it is to be a time-serving Labour party hack………….. :-(((((

    • Skuds

      Yes, but that doesn’t address the central hypocrisy of trying to grab credit for construction contracts that presumably were also set up by Labour and managed by them for the majority of their lifespan.