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I suppose I’m a naive sort of bloke in some respects.
Foe example, I always thought that MPs were our government, that the Cabinet and Ministers were the Executive Branch of it, with the Prime Minister being in overall charge.
But I was disabused of this idea yesterday listening to ‘Teflon’ Blair answer questions at the Iraq Inquiry. Most of what I heard was prefaced by ‘I’ and ‘me’.
I was reminded of those powerful words from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in which he refers to government as being, ‘... of the people, by the people, for the people ...’.
No mention in that of ‘I’ or ‘me’!
.
I suppose I’m a naive sort of bloke in some respects.
Foe example, I always thought that MPs were our government, that the Cabinet and Ministers were the Executive Branch of it, with the Prime Minister being in overall charge.
But I was disabused of this idea yesterday listening to ‘Teflon’ Blair answer questions at the Iraq Inquiry. Most of what I heard was prefaced by ‘I’ and ‘me’.
I was reminded of those powerful words from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in which he refers to government as being, ‘... of the people, by the people, for the people ...’.
No mention in that of ‘I’ or ‘me’!
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