THE LAST DITCH

Link: Chelsea sack Avram Grant as manager – Football News – Telegraph.

 

General_secretaryGordon_brownAvram_grantPoliticians think theirs is a tough game, but is it really? I wonder what goes through the mind of our football following Prime Minister when he reads of Chelsea’s ruthless sacking of Avram Grant?  Grant led his side to the Champions League final, the Carling Cup final and to second place in the Premier League. Brown seems unable to get his team onto the pitch.

Because of its feeble finances, the Labour Party can’t find someone to take on the job of General Secretary. Perhaps they should offer Roman Abramovich the job?

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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