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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1308 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on February 13, 2003 and belongs in the politics category. The previous post was The Real Reason for War?, and the next post is Moveable Type 2.61.

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Feb­ru­ary 12th, 2003.
John Reid, Labour party chair­man, on whether the mass­ing of troops at Heathrow air­port is a ‘pub­lic­ity stunt’:

“It was pre­cisely the sug­ges­tion that any gov­ern­ment, this gov­ern­ment included, would use such a seri­ous sub­ject as inter­na­tional ter­ror­ism, which gave us such things as New York, for their own pur­poses of spin or public rela­tions, that I found pretty contemptible.”

Sep­tem­ber 11th, 2001.
Jo Moore, spe­cial adviser to the sec­re­tary of state for transport:

“It’s now a very good day to get out any­thing we want to bury”.

Posted at 10am on 13/02/03 by Leon McDermott to the politics category.
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  1. Politi­cian in hypocrisy shocker!

    Posted by Jack at 1pm on 17.02.03

  2. I know, I know, but it was just too bla­tant a dis­crep­ancy to miss.

    Posted by Leon at 2pm on 17.02.03

  3. I wasn’t having a dig - flab­ber­gast­ing that he appears to have just for­got­ten the whole Byers… thing. I’ll leave it at that given my sur­name. Hee.

    Posted by Jack at 4pm on 17.02.03

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