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It's a funny thing, but for many years I've felt Sky were a lot like New Labour, with Brailsford and his hand-waving bullshittery resembling Blair et al. What Chris Mullins termed "New Labour's obsession with spin and control freakery', accurately diagnosing Sky.
How prescient that he also said : 'we've got our reviews, strategies, targets, action plans coming out of our ears....Yet, even at the hour of our greatest triumphs, New Labour has sown the seeds of its destruction'
Hubris, and Nemesis will always bite you in the ass.
Every now and then this debacle makes me recall In the Thick of It or In the Loop and I feel as weary as Peter Mannion with all the Knowledge Porridge BS.
FFS - How many months have they had to get a credible story straight, and yet for all the whatever they repeat ad nauseam was in the jiffy bag, there's still *** all evidence of anything important, a hell of a lot which smells fishier than Robson Green's tackle bag, and a shitload of contradictory crap.
The Hegelian said:bewildered said:The fluimucil story is a complete fabrication to get Brailsford out of a sticky situation in front of MPs. Doesn't appear they thought it through though and are still writing it. The Doctor confirming he doesn't have prescription rights in France despite an EU Regulation that says he does is the latest unbelievable aspect of this story.
Normally Brailsford lies through his teeth (like in the Henao study and Froome VO2 max test promises) until the questions go away but now he' s dealing with MPs and journos who know a lot more than they have written, not fans with typewriters who are afraid of having their access removed. They are like a dog with a bone and this one will not blow over like the last few empty promises. With his normal tactic of lying through his teeth he is digging himself further into a hole and the journos are just waiting for him to snooker himself completely.
Yeah, that's what's interesting to see ~ the web of lies just pulls them deeper and deeper into the mire, rather than providing a convenient segue out of trouble.
And the more they lie, the more it looks like a neon sign which says "We are guilty!"
I think that with Alastair Campbell now at the helm, one is reminded of the Blair era ~ and how much Blair is reviled today for the WMD-Iraq deception. Sooner or later, the gates of truth burst open...
It's a funny thing, but for many years I've felt Sky were a lot like New Labour, with Brailsford and his hand-waving bullshittery resembling Blair et al. What Chris Mullins termed "New Labour's obsession with spin and control freakery', accurately diagnosing Sky.
How prescient that he also said : 'we've got our reviews, strategies, targets, action plans coming out of our ears....Yet, even at the hour of our greatest triumphs, New Labour has sown the seeds of its destruction'
Hubris, and Nemesis will always bite you in the ass.
Every now and then this debacle makes me recall In the Thick of It or In the Loop and I feel as weary as Peter Mannion with all the Knowledge Porridge BS.
FFS - How many months have they had to get a credible story straight, and yet for all the whatever they repeat ad nauseam was in the jiffy bag, there's still *** all evidence of anything important, a hell of a lot which smells fishier than Robson Green's tackle bag, and a shitload of contradictory crap.