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Despite myself I'm beginning to feel rather fond of Lord Howell, the ermined fuckwit who called the north-east of England "desolate" yesterday. Speaking to The Telegraph today he has apologized and explained that he actually meant to insult the north-west. So that's all right.

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What was in my mind was much more the drilling going on off the Lancashire coast. But it came out of my mouth as the North East, which you can blame me for rightly. And that has created a great furore.

The North East wasn’t in my mind at all. Afterwards, I checked my words again, playing back the debate.

It was a stupid error of mine to mention anywhere at all. The general story is right – that we want the derricks for fracking to be far away from residences in unloved places that are not environmentally sensitive. I don’t want to see gas fracking subsidised like wind farms are. A lot more care must be taken than has been the case with wind farms, which have caused terrible desecration. It’s odd that they’ve decided to do this in sensitive places down in Sussex.


In unrelated news, the Court of Appeal today recommended that the DPP give further consideration to the guidelines for assisted euthanasia.

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Date: 2013-08-01 03:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com
Was he as big a fuckwit when he was an MP? (And Thatcher's first Energy Secretary, I see - cripes.) If so, being ermined is not what did it; voters chose him, not that that's an entirely democratic process, especially not in a safe constituency, either.

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Date: 2013-08-01 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
To be honest I barely remember him from those days - he certainly wasn't a very high-profile member of Mrs Thatcher's cabinet.

But yes, there are plenty of fuckwits on the green benches too. The difference of course is that, for all the shortcomings of the first past the post system, the Commons does have an element of democratic accountability.

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