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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   Time to remember the 'New Labour' 'pistachio' metaphor from 2000.   
      
   In the 1980s the rulers marched in, cracked so many nuts. Now the idea   
   is to make it considered impossible that any nuts could ever be   
   uncracked. Do you remember before CCTV on every street corner? Are you   
   mad? To hunt down and crack those they couldn't crack before - the ones   
   they dropped back in the packet, for dealing with 'later'.   
      
   Mopping up? Mobilisation? More like both.   
      
   That and Jonathan Powell's 'Bonapartism'.   
      
   Nice to see the 'people's movement' in power at last, eh?   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)