Word* Of The Week - UPDATE

I nominated "shroud waving" as Word* Of The Week on Wednesday and I am pleased to report that it's catching on. From the BBC:

Mr Yates, who is Britain's most senior anti-terrorist officer, was reported to have made the comments at a private meeting during the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) annual conference in Manchester on Thursday.

According to the reports, he said cutting 25% from the police budget risked weakening defences against al-Qaeda and claimed counter-terrorism officers would need to make savings in the region of £150m.

But [Cabinet Office Minister] Mr Maude said: "I'd like to avoid public servants doing this kind of shroud waving in public**. There is a special responsibility on all public servants to be really careful what we say and what we do. It's going to be pretty important for people who are managing big public services like police forces to focus on cutting out unnecessary costs, driving down costs, being as efficient as they possibly can before they even begin to contemplate talking about alarming the public in this kind of way."

* OK, it's two words.

** OK, Yatesy made the comments in private, but knowing full well that they would become public.

Yates of The Yard

It is not clear to me whether the MPs who 'grilled' him today thought that he had gone too far, or that he had not gone far enough.

Let us never forget that that the Crown Prosecution Service called off the investigation, on 20 July 2007, just one week before Tony Blair The Vampire Slayer finally handed over the keys to Number 10 to The Goblin King, having already formally announced that he was going to resign as an MP.

To think that that f***ing piece of devious shit Tony Blair is in the running to be the first EU President.

Grrrr!