Tony Blair's socks (Was Re: UKNM: Fast Summit)

[Mark Dolley]

I wrote:

>>Closer to home, the Rt Hon Chris Smith MP, Secretary of State for

>>Culture, Media and Sport once had the idea of giving away

>>state-subsidised digital set-top boxes to everyone in the country and

>>financing the deal by auctioning off access licences.

>>

>>But not only did it smack of centralised "big" government, it would have

>>dented Murdoch's plan. And as we all know, he is the one really running

>>the country.

>

Ray Taylor,

taylorbizbiz [dot] com

 had a go at me on 9/21/98 1:54 AM:


>Typical ex-pat "wisdom" on home affairs. I think the current UK government

>is the biggest (and undoubtedly the best and most popular) since 1945 and so

>needs no particular help from Australian entrepreneurs, despite what the

>crappy UK print media (Murdoch and otherwise) have to say about the matter.


David Bentley,

david_bentleyalny [dot] com

 chimed in on 9/21/98 6:40 AM:


>Typical partisan argument - it isn't about needing Murdoch now, it is about

>having needed Murdoch to get there.  It is now pay back time.  


The ex-pat crack was easy. It might be a little harder to discount the 

two years I spent working as a Labour researcher in the Shadow Heritage 

team, including drafting stuff for Chris Smith. As for proof of Murdoch's 

insidious nature, you have no idea how heavily the proposed cross-media 

ownership restrictions have been watered down from pre-manifesto 

thinking. 


Next time I see you Ray, remind me to tell you about the time I told Tony 

Blair to pull his socks up, in a lift at No.1 Parliament Street, while he 

was still Shadow Home Secretary...


Cheers,




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