This is different. It's spontaneous, and it's called "wit."
Yet I have to envy banter such as this:
[Enoch] Powell suffered cries of "Judas" after the then Tory MP opposed Britain's entrance into the EEC and urged people to trust Labour to renegotiate entry, days before the Tory government lost the 1974 election. During a speech in Shipley, a heckler cried: "Judas!" Powell shouted back: "Judas was paid! I am making a sacrifice!"
posted by Undersecretary to the Deputy Commissariat at 6:37 PM
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Much blessing on the old chap who survived the ACTUAL FUCKING NAZIS and found himself arrested under the "Terrorism Act" for calling "nonsense" on Jack Straw's feeble defense of Britain's Iraq policy.
I have long thought that the force and power of constitutions, both our own and Britains, lies far more in our culture - our expectation of self-soverignty - than our formal law. Oppressive forces in the West are more often reigned in by embarassment than legal action.
This was a big story because the contradictions of Labor collapsed against the old fellow's defense of openess - the lifeblood of democracy, irrespective of the law.
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