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The pc revolution devours its own

Robert Henderson | 19.12.2005 10:16

The ex-No 10 adviser Lance Price has revealed that the police have interviewed him about his claim in a book published earlier this year that Tony Blair said "F.....g Welsh " during the Welsh referendum campaign.

Earlier this year an ex No 10 adviser Lance Price published an account
of his time in Downing Street . This included an alleged remark -
"f.......g Welsh" - by Tony Blair at the time of the Welsh Assembly vote when it looked as though the Welsh might vote NO.
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On 14 Dec 2005 Price revealed he had been interviewed by the
North Wales Police for two hours about the alleged remark - this is the
force which avidly investigated Anne Robinson after her "What are the
Welsh for?" joke on Room 101.

Blair has not as yet been interviewed but it is difficult to see how
the
police could not interview him if Price has stood by his reporting of
the Blair statement. That the investigation is a sinister nonsense is
neither here nor there, because the remark has been by definition
deemed racially inciting by the police. Therefore, if Price stands by
his report they must interview Blair.

Another disquieting aspect is the minimal media coverage of the story. I had to get it off the BBC.

Price is reported to have complained about the waste of police time. He
would do better to complain about their police state behaviour,
behaviour which is sanctioned by Nulabour.

There will of course be no prosection. The police action is designed to imtimidate, both at the level of the particualt person or group (in this case No 10 Aides) and the general public who will unfortunately take the message "If the PM is being investigated it must be really dangerous to speak in any way other than that prescribed by the pc brigade.

This is the third example in a week of those who imagined they were
beyond the reach of the PC police being brought within the PC net: the
others are Lynette Burrows for her remarks on Gay adoption and Jeremy
Clarkson for his comments about the Germans.

Political movements driven by fanatic ideologies such as political
correctness invariably end up devouring their own as the more excitable
ideologues attempt to show their ideological purity by becoming ever
more extreme.

Robert Henderson
- e-mail: philip@anywhere.demon.co.uk