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Today’s thought is just a quick one that grabbed me.

According to the Independent, Tony Blair has announced plans to set up “respect zones”

These are going to be areas of the UK which will receive extra funding on the proviso they come down hard on “anti-social behaviour” (I believe this refers to the practice of not wearing deodorant or not brushing your teeth, according to anecdotal evidence about the UK).

According to Blair, it reflects a need to get back to how things used to be. I think he secretly wants to announce as many weirdo policies as possible before he pulls the pin, just because he can.

Prediction: The llr hatches plans for a similar policy in Australia involving areas which mandate the wearing of Australian flags as hats (not thongs or underwear as that would be disrespectful), the hanging of Menzies and Lizzy pics, the winding back of the clocks to 1955, and general bowing and scraping to authority figures. The bushy eyebrows twitch as he happily scrawls “exclusion zone” at the top, humming to himself as he drifts away, dreaming of shiny brown surfer boys wrapping themselves in their icon and beating the snot out of minority groups.

Meanwhile, as a staffer gently suggests a name change back at the ranch, the Krudd Krew pounce, beating him to the punch. Taking time out from a particularly tough game of D&D chess they hold a press conference, where Kev declares that when he wins power he will turn all of Australia into a progressive/ conservative enclave – where the rights of women, ethnic minorities, the worker, the environment and industry are protected by the maintenance of good Catholic values. (How could he have known that when he won in a landslide the paradox would cause a rip in the temporal fabric just west of Barcaldine, sucking the entire dimension into oblivion?)

We’ll see.