"We're all completely fucked"

Well, despite all my elitist carping in the post below - now what was Tony Blair's phrase, "book reading intellectuals" or some such? - I must give credit to the Labour Party where credit's due. There's a post coming up for chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee, those chaps who did such a fine job "getting it all wrong" on Iraq, WMDs,the truth etc., and they certainly seem to be hiring someone with the right attitude for the job.

Say hello to Sir Richard Mottram, the man whose claim to fame, and entry into the dictionary of political quotations, is the following analysis of Jo Moore's 9/11 "now's a fine time to bury bad news" micro-scandal - "We're all fucked. I'm fucked. You're fucked. The whole department's fucked. It's been the biggest cock-up ever and we're all completely fucked."

Now, that's my kind of civil servant.

And you know what? With some of the things coming down the pike stemming from dear leader's advance on Stalingrad... er, I mean, Iraq, his cheeky little renunciation of international climate control and other, bigger, more general unavoidable crazy shit about to ensue, I suspect "we're all fucked" is a phrase Sir Richard will be using rather frequently.