12 January, 2010

Wicked joke or just crass?

For some reason I'm not on the Ministry of Justice's Christmas card list, so I didn't get to see the snowy wonderland scene on the front. Luckily I was passed these photos from an Icelandic friend who thinks the picture is beautiful. He thinks it's beautiful because he's sure that it's a picture of Gullfoss waterfall in SW Iceland! After the British Government used anti-terrorism legislation against Iceland they haven't been too high on the Icelandic people's Christmas card list.

So is this a wickedly cheeky joke by the MOJ, or just a display is crass insensitivity? Sense of humour or insensitivity? Hmmmmm answers on a postcard.

4 comments:

Jimmy said...

I thought there was a government deficit and recession. Why is Ministry of Justice sending out Christmas cards?

More people in the UK have been stopped by police using anti-terror laws than the entire population of Iceland. In 2008 in London alone there were 157,000 people stopped for 'terrorism' without the need for reasonable suspicion.

You should be more concerned with the laws used against innocent Londoners than against a country that seems determined to pocket money from British individuals and British taxpayers.

Lord Toby Harris said...

Tsk, tsk, James - you are behaving like a LibDem .....
See:
http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/james-cleverly-repeats-the-myth-about-terrorism-powers-and-icelandic-banks/

Anonymous said...

That is Gullfoss, no doubt about it.

The Icelanders have a sense of humour anyway, they sent us their winter.

Anonymous said...

Gott og farsælt komandi ár, James.
Takk kærlega for pointing this out.
Bara til skemmtunar of course!