Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Thursday, 22 May 2008
"Every Child A Wanted Child"
Remember that one? Yet a child in Birmingham seems to have been starved to death out of sheer neglect. Like "no more gymslip mothers", or the claim that abortions would decline as contraceptives became universally available (the exact opposite of what has happened in every society where abortion and contraception have been implemented - every single one), it was at best a fantasy, and really just a lie.
It was actually this very slogan that Thickie-of-the-Week Edward Leigh was coming up with on Channel 4 News last week to argue against "saviour siblings".
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He was probably trying to use the other side's arguments against it.
ReplyDeleteLeigh is an interesting figure, the last representative of the English recusant gentry who formed much of the backbone of the Court Party even though they could not actually sit in Parliament at the time.