万花筒 Kaleidoscope 2007-06-05&06, Blair和Cameron的超级精彩对话

The Government is now paralyzed? We've got a Home Secretary [John Reid], yeah, a Home Secretary splitting his department but he's already resigned. We've got a Foreign Secretary [Margaret Beckett] negotiating a European treaty that she won't be around to ratify¹ and we've got a Prime Minister who even after the last week's drubbing simply doesn't understand that it's over. Everybody knows who the next Labor² leader is, and thank God he's got out of his blacked-out limo and come to the House of Commons. Why does the country have to put up with another seven weeks of paralysis³?

I will tell on what I will be concentrated in the next seven weeks, that is, policy, the policies for the economy and health and educationand law and order. And if I can give him some advice: if I were him, I would concentrate on policy, too. Because I have something else to inform the House of. Yesterday, there was the leading policy speech by the right hon, by the Member for West Dorset [Mr. Letwin], in charge of their policy commission. It was a speech entitled, "Is Cameron Conservatism just a set of attitudes, or is it a political theory?", asks Oliver Letwin. And here is the answer, "Cameron Conservatism is an attempt to shift the theory of the State from a provision-based paradigm⁴ to a framework-based paradigm. The provision-the provision theory of the modern State being the successor to socialism in the post-Marxist era.” concluding with the words, concluding with, concluding with the words, "It all goes back to Marx." That is Groucho [Groucho Marx], I assume.

Soon, soon, the Prime Minister is gonna have plenty of time to read all our speeches, but he just does not get it. This is the Government of the living dead. Why do we have to put up with even more paralysis?

This is a Government that has run the strongest economy this country has seen in10 years. Just last week, health service waiting lists again down. The best school results this country has ever seen, and living standards for every section of the population up. And he can be as cocky as he likes about the local elections; come a general election, it's policy that counts. And on policy, we win and he loses.

1 ratify   

v.批准，认可，追认

参考例句：

• The heads of two governments met to ratify the peace treaty.两国政府首脑会晤批准和平条约。
• The agreement have to be ratify by the board.该协议必须由董事会批准。

2 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

3 paralysis   

n.麻痹(症)；瘫痪(症)

参考例句：

• The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。
• The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。

4 paradigm   

n.例子，模范，词形变化表

参考例句：

• He had become the paradigm of the successful man. 他已经成为成功人士的典范。
• Moreover,the results of this research can be the new learning paradigm for digital design studios.除此之外，本研究的研究成果也可以为数位设计课程建立一个新的学习范例。