 « Monday's comment from the papers in... | All Posts | The perfect Palin present » December 22, 2008What Bob Quick tells us about Damian Green
At last I understand the police arrest of Damian Green. Bob Quick himself has explained it to me. I can quite understand why Mr Quick was upset on Sunday. Neither he or his wife were doing anything remotely wrong and thestory about her perfectly legitimate car hire firm, meant that their business suddenly became a security issue. He has had to move his family to a safe place. But his suggestion that the "Tory machinery" was behind it is ridiculous. The two most likely ways for the story to have reached the Mail on Sunday are these - a journalist or his friend happened across it, perhaps while hiring a car and thought it would be a good story; or a fellow police officer thought that it might make Mr Quick less promotable and tried to do him in, in the papers. The idea that the Conservative Party would have found out about it and then farmed it out to the papers to undermine Mr Quick is far-fetched. His immediate assumption that this is indeed what happened gives an insight into the way he thinks politics works. Instead of a hapless confusion of interaction with newspapers, stumbling across leakers and leaked documents, gossiping about people in bars and so forth, Mr Quick sees politics as a tight conspiracy in which the Tory Party sends out its crack black bag unit to case the car hire business of its enemies. Then, meeting in the Dunkin Donuts behind Piccadily Circus, hat brim low on his face, the Tory agent silently slides the brown envelope across the table to the Sunday newspaper man. His comedy cuts view of this tight knit band, capable of engaging in shadowy work to undermine his reputation, led him to believe it quite possible than Damian Green - Damian Green - was a super spy snooping into the secrets of the Home Secretary and needed to be arrested at dawn by Dennis Waterman and John Thaw. I understand it all now. |
Monday, 22 December 2008
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