Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Wednesday 25 October 2006
Truly Amazing At Last
Lat night's episode of The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, while it was mostly still silly (no doubt the BBC seriously believes that a Prime Minister from the North of England, as well as being comically improbable in itself, would seek to move Parliament to Bradford and sell off Whitehall), contained the brilliant, if unoriginal, idea that EU legislation should only apply in this country once it has gone through exactly the same parliamentary process as has homegrown legislation. How many people realise that this does not already happen? Why does it not happen? When is it going to be made to happen? And how did so splendid an idea ever make it onto the BBC?
It made it onto the BBC because, despite the way it is often portrayed, the BBC is an incredibly pluralist broadcaster.
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