http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2006/12/19/3479 Every day the Prime Minister's Spokesman meets a small coterie of political journalists known as 'the lobby' for a topical chat, or 'briefing'. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:51:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2006/12/19/3479#comment-5160 SmokeNMirrors Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:15:55 +0000 http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2006/12/19/3479#comment-5160 Yeah, any level of corruption and deceit are fine as long as "National Interests" are not threatened. Of course, the proviso "well it would have led to the loss of x thousand jobs" had to come into the equation; isn't it just a pity that we can no longer manufacture anything except instruments of death that people want to buy? Why aren't we employing these people in fields such as research into alternative fuels, for instance? Then we wouldn't have to deal with countries like Saudi Arabia at all, and we could take the REAL moral high-ground, rather than making ourselves look to the world like hypocrites the like of which the world has rarely seen before. Yeah, any level of corruption and deceit are fine as long as "National Interests" are not threatened. Of course, the proviso "well it would have led to the loss of x thousand jobs" had to come into the equation; isn’t it just a pity that we can no longer manufacture anything except instruments of death that people want to buy? Why aren’t we employing these people in fields such as research into alternative fuels, for instance? Then we wouldn’t have to deal with countries like Saudi Arabia at all, and we could take the REAL moral high-ground, rather than making ourselves look to the world like hypocrites the like of which the world has rarely seen before.

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