I HATE saying I told you so, especially as no-one likes a "smarty-pants", but I'm going to anyway: "I told You So". I have long campaigned against television phone-ins for so-called talent contests, arguing that they had little if any impact on the outcome. And I suspected a sizeable wedge of the money generated by premium rate phone numbers somehow found its way into pockets for which it was not intended, but had no idea of the extent of the scams, which are now very much public knowledge.
A week is a long time in politics, but seven days after the dawn of a "new" era of Tory supremacy, the agonising continues over Labour's thorough beating in the local elections.
FORGIVE the usual rant, but absolutely nothing is the same as it was before I metamorphosed into Victor Meldrew. I get visual and audio evidence of that every day of the week, and cannot be the only one who spends time tut-tutting at the way Britain in general, and Bolton in particular, is hurtling, unchecked, towards the abyss.
IF I were Mayor of Beirut, I would launch a civil action against Cllr Walter Hall, of Bolton Council's planning committee, for his slanderous remarks in which he described Bolton as "looking like Beirut".
TEN years after her death, a lengthy and hugely expensive inquest has concluded that Princess Diana was unlawfully killed in an horrific road accident, caused by a chauffeur who had had too much to drink, wasn't qualified to handle the specially-adapted armoured Mercedes, and was driving far too fast in an attempt, we are led to believe, to escape the unwanted attentions of a posse of feral paparazzi. So now we know. Or do we?
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If it needs saying, Fred will tell you!
