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...a blog by Richard Flowers

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Day 1892: About Time

Wednesday:


Excellent news, today! My favouritest MP – Sarah Teather – has been given a promotion by His Supremacy HRH Sir Mr the Merciless. She is now to be Shadow Secretary of State for Education.

This is a big step up from shadowing the Minister for Keeping Old Labour Onside!

Education is ANOTHER place where Mr Blair made a PROMISE and then did the EXACT OPPOSITE! He said he was going to make sure no one got charged TOP UP FEES for going to UNIVERSITY – and then he only goes and CHARGES THEM HIMSELF!

Mr Blair said that his top three priorities would be Education, Education, Education.

Someone needs to tell him that this is not three priorities but one priority SAID THREE TIMES. Even I can count better than THAT!

Daddy says that his promise might have been Education, Education, Education, but his actions have been Bodge It, Fudge It, Forget It.



By the way, Daddy Alex has said that I am wrong to call Mr Who Mr Who. I have checked, and Daddy is RIGHT – his name is actually Mr HEWN. Does this mean he is made from a block of WOOD?

Mr the Merciless has made Mr Hewn Shadow Secretary of State for the ENVIRONMENT, and I think this includes ELEPHANTS. I hope so as he is nice.



Meanwhile, Daddy Alex has a new book. It is called ABOUT TIME ONE and it is about DOCTOR WHO (and only a bit about TIME). It is VERY ironic that it is called ABOUT TIME because Daddy was promised this book LAST AUGUST!

However, this is actually GOOD timing, because my Daddies are watching the beginning of Doctor Who at the moment on a DVD called THE BEGINNING (well Duh!)

About Time is written by two people called Mr LARRY and MR TAT – or as Daddy Alex now calls them Mr TARRY and Mr LATE! (To be FAIR to Mr Tarry and Mr Late they HAVE already written book number three and book number four and book number five, so they have been QUITE busy!)

It is without doubt the BIGGEST reference book about Doctor Who SO FAR. I think that the FOUR books they have finished so far are probably almost as big as ME. And it is much less BORING than… erm… some of the others.

On the other hand, they are very OPINIONATED. Sometime my Daddies start betting QUATLOOS on which of them is going to BASH the other. And sometimes they turn my Daddy PURPLE with some of the things they say are FACTS.

(I do not know why the words “UNIT dating” makes my Daddies go purple!)

I have a sneaking suspicion that Daddies LIKE going purple. They certainly seem to enjoy this book.

4 comments:

Will said...

UNIT dating is the bit at the end of The Daemons where Corporal Jones wants to have a dance but Captain Mainwaring takes him for a drink instead.

Will said...

UNIT dating is the bit at the end of The Daemons where Corporal Jones wants to have a dance but Captain Mainwaring takes him for a drink instead.

Joe Taylor said...

Can you ask Daddy Alex whether Time Lords sit as cross-benchers?

Yours,

Confused

Millennium Dome said...

Daddy says that the Time Lords were all destroyed along with the other hereditary peers.

Mr Blair is an ally of the DALEKS don't you know.