Quote of the day: miserable pipsqueak edition

2:10pm Fri July 9th
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“It was like looking at Bambi. So I shot him.”

Tom Watson has given an account of that outburst for (the excellent) Labour Uncut:

It was like he was enjoying the humiliation. He wasn’t supposed to be … He gave the impression that he’d gone through the plans for every school in scholarly detail. And having grasped the detail, he was halving the number of building schools for the future projects – more than 700 schools … The following day, dischord erupted. Michael had got his facts wrong. The department was very sorry but the some of the schools would not be receiving the investment. How many? Well, ahem, er, all of them.

You can read the full thing here.

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  1. By Political Scrapbook on July 9, 2010 at 1:12 pm

    New post –> Quote of the day: miserable pipsqueak edition (@tom_watson writes for @LabourUncut on *that* outburst) http://is.gd/dluQt

  2. By Labour Uncut on July 9, 2010 at 1:18 pm

    RT @psbook: New post –> Quote of the day: miserable pipsqueak edition (@tom_watson writes for @LabourUncut on *that* outburst) http://is.gd/dluQt

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