Mandy to be appointed "Minister for Information"

[hornetrider]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/11/man...

Now, is it just me, or does anyone else get the heeby jeebies regarding both the job title wrt the government and the individual?

Pics of Comical Ali also accepted in response

[V88Dicky]

[BruceV8]

Only one step from being the Minister of Truth.

[Digga]

So Jack "dropped at birth" Straw announces a plan to force ISPs to store all our emails for 12 months and make them avaialbe to the Stasi government, and now Meddlesome is being touted as 'safe keeper' of said data.

They're clearly trying to rush their big Stalinist plan through as fast as possible aren't they?

[Tangent Police]

As a comment said "If we had a Prime Minister that could actually communicate with other human beings, this would not be necessary".

Edited by Tangent Police on Wednesday 11th November 16:14

[Skywalker]

Come on - be reasonable.

Lady Peter has so many titles, why moan about another couple.
It makes sense - as the number of titles held is inversely proportional to competence.

[Zod]

One obvious motivation is to be able to keep a lid on or destroy all information about his ill-gotten fortune.

[fido]

More bullsh8t titles from a bullsh8t government. Are they going to appoint an 'Information Tsar' to advise the new minister?

[Uncle Fester]

We could give the job a proper European title like Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda)

Edited by Uncle Fester on Wednesday 11th November 17:50

[AndrewW-G]

So the man with connections to Phorm, who's also responsible for the considerable activity on "clamping down" on people using file sharing apps (following a lovely holiday with David Geffin) is now going to be in charge of all ISP and phone data..............Orwell couldn’t make this st up.

For some strange reason I don’t think a man guilty of mortgage fraud is the ideal person for this post

Edited by AndrewW-G on Wednesday 11th November 17:13

[T89 Callan]

We already know he is a disgusting weasal-esque , what more information do we need?

[FourWheelDrift]

We were already sailing up st creek when they created a post of "Justice Minister", just smacks of oppression.

[jmorgan]

Damn. Beaten to the Goebbels image.

[mattley]

It's pretty bloody scary isn't it.

[HOGEPH]

FourWheelDrift said:

We were already sailing up st creek

Well Mandelson has navigated that stretch!

[anonymous-user]

Uncle Fester said:

We could give the job a proper European title like Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda)

Much more apropos than Comical Ali. Mandelson is dangerous and far more like Goebbels. The man is a festering stain on this nation and the sooner he is stripped of any power the better.

[tzfan]

unrepentant said:

Much more apropos than Comical Ali. Mandelson is dangerous and far more like Goebbels. The man is a festering stain on this nation and the sooner he is stripped naked and tied to an execution post the better.

EFA

[Ayahuasca]

Can't see it making much difference. Deckchairs on the Titanic.