BIll Bailey. His humour is quite British so you might not like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFQ_s87acFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwaxWoJPUC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGSNxkCIln0
BIll Bailey. His humour is quite British so you might not like it.
I think we all know that politicians claim to believe many things they don't actualy believe because it's useful at the time. You seem to be a bit engaged in 'Blair think' where anyone who isn't ruthlessly 'on message' is unacceptable. I'd like to think that era is also past and Boris will be a little less simplistic in his perceptions.Steve3007 wrote: ↑July 26th, 2019, 7:00 amAside from Felix's criticisms, below, aren't your words here a bit out of step with Britain in the Johnson era? Cynicism is so last month. We're all optimism, dynamism and "sunlit uplands" and stuff now aren't we? Anyone who says otherwise is an un-patriotic Project Fear monger, aren't they?
Social expectation. Harold is aware that to abandon his father he would have to move far enough away that no one knew him and what he had done. This big a shift in his own life, to a place where he would also know no one, is too much for him to contemplate. My aunt managed it by marrying a kiwi airman at the end of WW2 and my mother has never forgiven her for it.
In other words, the concept of "shame" as in the word "shameless" used in contexts like: "Tut, tut, has he no shame?" or "Look at her gallivanting around shamelessly with her fancy man!".Mark1955 wrote:Social expectation. Harold is aware that to abandon his father he would have to move far enough away that no one knew him and what he had done. This big a shift in his own life, to a place where he would also know no one, is too much for him to contemplate. My aunt managed it by marrying a kiwi airman at the end of WW2 and my mother has never forgiven her for it.
I think you're talking about politicians in a given political group presenting a united front and a coherent message. I don't think that's a trait that is specific to any one politician, e.g. Blair, and I don't think it's specific to party politics. It's something that we all have to do from time to time. I very much doubt that it will suddenly be rendered obsolete now.I think we all know that politicians claim to believe many things they don't actually believe because it's useful at the time. You seem to be a bit engaged in 'Blair think' where anyone who isn't ruthlessly 'on message' is unacceptable. I'd like to think that era is also past and Boris will be a little less simplistic in his perceptions.
But I'm not a politician so I don't need to be on any particular politician's or party's message. I do think Blair was the man who raised the bar for 'we must all be on message' in the UK. As his other follies and lies come to light so I think his methods are also being questioned.Steve3007 wrote: ↑August 4th, 2019, 4:02 amI think you're talking about politicians in a given political group presenting a united front and a coherent message. I don't think that's a trait that is specific to any one politician, e.g. Blair, and I don't think it's specific to party politics. It's something that we all have to do from time to time. I very much doubt that it will suddenly be rendered obsolete now.
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