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Elections abolished (?)

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• Mr Burrard on November 4, 2005 at 1:13 am

  Brilliant spoof, because it’s so plausible. You obviously aren’t too concerned about getting your DFID job back then?

• Johnathan Pearce on November 4, 2005 at 11:14 am

  Go for it Phoney!

• Ephems of BLB on November 4, 2005 at 2:04 pm

  It couldn’t happen here

  It couldn’t happen here. But that’s what we said before they abolished detention without trial, the presumption of innocence, double jeopardy…. [More >>>]

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• Not Little England on November 4, 2005 at 3:17 pm

  Elsewhere: It sounds so True

  Owen has a nice little skit up about the future of democracy under Blair.

• Phil Hunt on November 5, 2005 at 10:32 am

  Very Good! I particularly like the links at the right “Watch scenes from the last ever parliamentary debate”, “How freedom helps terrorism”, “Be very afraid”

• The Sharpener » Blair announces abolition of elections on November 5, 2005 at 11:00 am

  [...] Have a look at this: [...]

• Mad Minerva on November 5, 2005 at 12:44 pm

  Wonderfully clever!

• Tim Worstall on November 6, 2005 at 6:35 am

  Britblog Roundup # 38

  Here ’tis my luvverlies, this week’s Britblog Roundup. As you know you can nominate posts for inclusion by simply emailing the URL to britblog AT gmail DOt com. We’re interested in what you think were the best posts of British

• Blairwatch on November 10, 2005 at 8:09 am

  OMB News, BlairAnnounces Abolition of Elections

  Advice from the police

  Mr Blair said that the police had advised him that elections would be dangerous. “They would divert attention from the war on terror”, he said. “If the public chose a new government, that would be a victory for terrorism. We…

• Rob on November 16, 2005 at 1:29 am

  Brilliant - and really rather chilling, because it doesn’t take a huge leap of the imagination to see Blair doing exactly that - to ensure his legacy, of course…
  Thanks for this, and congratulations on a very elegant site.

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