Friday 1 April 2016

Mirror, mirror on the wall...

… who is the blandest of them all?
When the scriptwriters of VEEP coined the phrase ‘Continuity with Change’, they were actually seeking the most meaningless political phrase they could come up with.  Little did they imagine that any politician would ever use anything similar for real.  Never overestimate a politician.
As the Welsh general election campaign struggles into some semblance of life, no doubt we can expect to hear many other meaningless slogans bandied around.  But who can be the blandest of them all?
The Lib Dems have bolted into an early lead this week with “Our priorities are your priorities” and “Putting People First” (as if any political party would ever come forward and say that they were going to put people last).  I really wish that I could say that I was not expecting keen competition from the others to trump the Lib Dems in the coming weeks…

1 comment:

Pete said...

I've got a good one. It was at a meeting of the Cyngor Cenedlaethol just before the devolution referendum of '79. Dafydd El said that what we needed was "A flexible hard line"