Three recent cases. First, we have Iain Duncan Smith, apparently responsible for implying the following:
Someone said he also called working people “normal” too – which I presume makes claimants “abnormal”Sheesh
A comment whose original source – if you search on the web – seems to have gone suspiciously to ground somewhat.
Then we have Andrew Lansley accusing:
[...] the British Medical Association of being “politically poisoned” in its opposition to his NHS shakeup.Lansley infuriated the doctors’ union by repeating a description first used by Aneurin Bevan, the founding father of the NHS, at the time the service was created in 1948. The putdown came in a pre-prepared speech in Liverpool at the launch of a new children’s health initiative, rather than in an off-the-cuff remark or interview.
Finally, today, Michael Gove opens the free schools’ debate up to Twitter – and then accuses parents and school governors who don’t like his ideas of being extreme left-wing agitators:
Education Secretary Michael Gove has labelled campaigners against turning a school into an academy as “Trots”.The forthright views of the education secretary were delivered to MPs on the Commons Education Select Committee.
This was at a session in which MPs’ questions were informed by 5,000 Twitter messages from the public.
Now I’m not a psychiatrist or anything – so will have to leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Even as it does, quite seriously, occur to me to worry a little for the collective mental wellbeing of a government with so many active fronts on the go.
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