In next doors garden .

Day 10 of the missing presumed abducted child in the algarve massive news story , and sadly
still it's the same questions asked of the same people giving the same answers , and one false -
lead after another . Obviously it's awful for Mr and Mrs McCann .
Is it easier to sympathise because they are white  , educated , professional middle-class and
because their little girl is pretty ? As someone said several days ago on a radio 'phone-in , if that
had happened to a 'working class' single Mother staying at Butlins she would be held largely to blame and it would not have become such a huge media jamboree .
Also there's the factor of it having happened abroad at a resort popular with British holidayers .
And , why did the News Of The World approach 'celebrities' to pledge money towards a possible
(unlikely to be paid out) reward ? : It combines the story with many of their readers preoccupation with such 'celebrities' , and gives the celebs favourable publicity .
Not that they are not concerned , we all are , and it's not healthy to be too cynical about everything .
It's easy to criticise the Portugese police and legitimately so for having been so slow off the mark , though I think we should respect that it is not their policy to give out information about investigations , and of course no one expected that to happen there , though they do very much still give every impression of not having the faintest idea of what happened .
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The Blair years will be remembered for the excessive concern for presentation and 'spin' ,  for 'New Labour' having defied 'Old Tory' predictions of a return to 1970's hyper-inflation , strikes and winters of discontent by having kept the economy fairly stable , for the virtual loss of control of our borders and an apparently deliberate policy of having as many , legal and illegal
immigrants here as possible and for an insidious climate of 'political correctness' muffling any legitimate criticism of that(and why does blair not like to say anything against Mugabe ? - Because of Mugabe's skin colour , of course) , and , most of all for his juvenile hero  worship of his corrupt , warmongering idol in The White House having led to Britain's military involvement
in the appalling , unnecessary , illegal , irreversible and now seemingly insoluble Iraqi debacle .