Re: "A safe pair of hands"


"Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Oh No wrote:
Thus spake Howard Neil <hneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jim Webster wrote:

The MP for Derby South since 1983 was also a minister in Labour
government of the 1970s, and is widely respected as a safe pair of
hands.

Where is that then? Down at the local massage parlour?

I am minded that in the Rumpole books, Barristers earn the plaudit "a
safe pair of hands" for being almost completely useless.


I wonder how much space there is in New Zealand for us all !


on the grounds that it would be inconcievably incompetent for the UK to end
up at War with New Zealand, she could just manage it

Jim Webster


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