As we presume to lecture the Burmese, remember that eight thousand people are still without permanent homes in East and South Yorkshire, following the floods last year. East Yorkshire is solidly Tory, albeit now with a Lib Dem council in Hull itself; South Yorkshire is solidly Labour, albeit now with a Lib Dem council in Sheffield itself. A fat lot of good the three Notting Hill Dinner Parties are doing for their voters.
Can you imagine this in, say, East and West Sussex, or Kent and Essex, or Surrey and Hertfordshire? It could never have reached anything like this point in the first place, because a national emergency would have been declared almost at the first spot of rain. If you don't believe me, then just wait for the winter. A tiny amount of snow will fall somewhere in the South, it will be the main national news, and the Army will be sent out to "rescue" people.
But East and South Yorkshire, among numerous other places, could be swept away by the waves and the powers that be would never even notice. They care more about Burma than they do about almost all of Britain.
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David, This was just posted over at Kamm's:
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Jack seems sublimely unaware that thanks to a bug in Typepad, it's actually not possible to delete a comment from a live thread if they're not pre-moderated.
I spotted this a few days ago when Oliver nominally deleted a comment by a fire-and-brimstone Bible-spouting nutter (not Lindsay, for once), though the original comment still appeared once you clicked "reply" and sought to add a comment yourself.
So I conclude from this that he and Lindsay simply haven't spotted that comments threads go onto a second page if they're sufficiently lengthy.
However, I'm intrigued as to how Jack knew about this "devastating riposte". He can't have seen it published and then removed, because we know (and I mean know, not assume) that that didn't happen. But because Jack believes that it's no longer there, that means he couldn't have known about the second comments page either.
Which means that either Lindsay sent him a sneak preview of this "devastating riposte" prior to posting it, or...
...no, it can't be that. Surely Lindsay isn't reaching for the sock-puppets again after all the ridicule he suffered last time? It must be the first explanation!
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Jack probably just didn't realise that there was a second page. He'll doubtless tell us tomorrow.
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