The Policy Blender

Matt, having vainly attempted to offend me yesterday, you choose to completely baffle me today.
Alec

Well, if I explain it, it won't be funny. Though if it's not funny already then perhaps it doesn't matter.

1) Government has plans to tackle depression

2) I surmise that the plans are so overwhelmingly large-scale that the Government is, ironically, depressed about it.

3) Louise Appleby is the mental health tsar. She is therefore Russian, and has a beard and a large family. The Russian is meant to read 'I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed. Don't attempt to engage my enthusiasm - I haven't got one'. Though it probably doesn't. It's a quote from Marvin the Paranoid Android.

4) Patricia Hewitt is the Secretary of State for Health. She's depressed too.

I'd like this site to be as accessible as possible. If anyone else is confused by a post, please let me know. Conversely, if a post appears without either humour or serious insight once explained, please let us know and we will exercise harsh punishment on its writer.

Thank you for the thorough explanation. Its all quite obvious really, except for the quote in Russian. I'm just having a long day at the office.
Perhaps I should have read the link to the article in the Guardian before embarrassing myself online.
Now I'm depressed.
Alec

Don't be depressed Alec - I embarrass myself online nearly every day.

hello all.

its hot here and the keyboards have all the letters in the wrong places and I cant find the apostrophe key (or the spell checker)

hope all is well in the UK.

bye

He's in Florida, where I am led to believe it has recently been rather breezy. He's still alive though.

I'll concede that as soon as you admit that there's a u in colour - if you had the car and the computer first, we definitely had the language first.

I think it even calls it an error in 'English, other' - which I think is the Microsoft terminology for English from England. Which tells you not only that Bill Gates is American, but also that he is a 'piece of work' - (for piece of work, read bastard).

Congratulate Babel Fish, not me.

I was in Spain when the keys were in the wrong place on the computer.

The 'y' is where the 'x' should be.

stupid foreigners.