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Comments on: Resignation and perspective http://sharpener.johnband.org/2007/12/resignation-and-perspective/ Trying to make a point Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brian Barder http://sharpener.johnband.org/2007/12/resignation-and-perspective/#comment-58914 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:44:54 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/04/resignation-and-perspective/#comment-58914 I thought (and hoped) that your punch-line — the heinous behaviour which doesn’t apparently require resignation whereas the absurdly trivial peccadillos described in your lead-in do — would be that taking your country into an illegal, unnecessary, unsuccessful, mendaciously justified and blunderingly unprepared war is not a resigning matter. But then, come to think of it, Eden and Selwyn Lloyd didn’t resign over Suez; Eden eventually resigned for (genuine) health reasons, and Lloyd, his partner in lying to parliament, the UN and the British public, went on to become Speaker.

]]> By: ww http://sharpener.johnband.org/2007/12/resignation-and-perspective/#comment-58911 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:15:21 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/04/resignation-and-perspective/#comment-58911 ok!!
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]]> By: Larry Teabag http://sharpener.johnband.org/2007/12/resignation-and-perspective/#comment-58907 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:19:48 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/04/resignation-and-perspective/#comment-58907 Mein Gott – Panorama got an actual real-life tinfoil hat merchant in to do the “science” for their show.

]]> By: David Duff http://sharpener.johnband.org/2007/12/resignation-and-perspective/#comment-58906 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:48:03 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/04/resignation-and-perspective/#comment-58906 “spread outrageous, scaremongering lies!

Just for a minute there I thought you had suddenly changed the habits of a lifetime and started writing sense because I assumed it was something to do with that tendentious pile of smelly stuff produced by Al Gore.

As for your reply above, if I’m ever up in front of the judge for breaking the law will it be alright if I say it was a mistake, or that I forgot, or that my PA didn’t tell me, or I didn’t know – although it was me that helped draft the law?

]]> By: John B http://sharpener.johnband.org/2007/12/resignation-and-perspective/#comment-58905 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:38:23 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/04/resignation-and-perspective/#comment-58905 Not that this has anything to do with the topic of the post – but you’d need to assume an enormous streak of deliberate self-destruction to assume that TeacupDonorgate isn’t an honest mistake.
Labour had nothing to gain from accepting dodgy donations – their financial situation isn’t currently especially precarious, and the value we’re talking about as a % of party funds is small.
Their opponents (including, say, secretive disgruntled tycoons who the party had previously let down and deselected, as well as the Tories and LDs) had everything to gain from tarring Labour as just as provenly corrupt as them (hello Lord Ashcroft! Hello Michael Brown!).
So, a quick perusal of the rules to see what donations can be accepted mistakenly in good faith but still be illegal, a little sting operation, followed by a massive PR blitz to claim that doing so is in any way important – bish bash bosh, and we have a scandal. Even though it’s of absolutely no account or importance to anyone sane.

]]> By: Cleanthes http://sharpener.johnband.org/2007/12/resignation-and-perspective/#comment-58904 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:26:54 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/12/04/resignation-and-perspective/#comment-58904 And, obviously, breaking the laws you yourself made in order to hobble your opponents is an honest mistake made in good faith.

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