Tuesday 14 October 2008

For a bit of light relief...

From a Conservative party pamphlet entitled "Fighting off the UKIP threat"* that was passed round at a local UKIP meeting:

With a General Election in the offing there is good case to be made for giving priority to other issues and other policies. But that is no excuse for not having a policy on the EU. There is a clear and immediate need to formulate a policy on the EU. No doubt everyone will have their own views on what this should be ... But for the moment the actual policy is less important than what it should achieve.

Here's the picture from the front cover**
* Available to order here. Rather ironically, one of his books is entitled "Hitler, Military Commander"...

** ... obviously he didn't heed one of Hitler's famous instructions to his propaganda film units "Der deutsche Landser greift von links an!" I once saw a wonderful documentary about Werner Herzog in which he explained that the audience instinctively sides with the soldier on the left of the screen, as a result, the German attack on a certain town had to be restaged a couple of days later because the film unit had filmed it with the Germans attacking from the right.

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