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annodomini Fri 06-Dec-13 12:26:42

If it's a 'request', Bags, surely that confers the choice to either comply or not.

lucyinthesky Fri 06-Dec-13 12:13:46

exactly thatbags

thatbags Fri 06-Dec-13 11:48:06

And what happened to the freedom to choose not to do what the FO wants?
Grr.

thatbags Fri 06-Dec-13 11:47:07

The Foreign Office has requested that all flags are flown at half mast. You'll know why, and if I had a flag I'd be flying it at half mast today.

But WHY does the FO think it needs to ask? Nanny statism gone mad. Scowl.

As a balance to that, I loved seeing a tweet which showed a photograph of voting queues in the South African presidential elections. Awesome. People who haden't had freedoms we take for granted appreciated the freedom to vote deomcratically.

But I still managed to have a grumpy thought, which was: "Stick that in your pipe Russell Brand."

Well, I did warn you wink