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[johnny9fingers]

 

Genius.
Britain's better off better off are better off with Labour.
Poor old David....leader of an unelectable, intractable rump of extreme Thatchistas, bent on returning us to 1950's values, and the wrong 1950's values at that. (You have to admire the 'No Poofters, No Foriegners, and No to Europe' tendancies - if only for intransigence in the face of direct evidence. As is, when the world economy staggers we're better off in the European marketplace.)
One has to applaud Gordon's wit in all of this.
I think the Tories are going to have to wait until all the old Blue rinse types and doddery and peppery old Colonels still smarting over the loss of India finally leave politics for good, and then re-invent from the ground up. David tried to be Disraeli. The rump of his party actually want Oswald Moseley. They must never be allowed to have power. Once they're all dead, then perhaps the Tory Party will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, but, until then.....

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There's another salient reference in that 'toon...

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

The Saatchi Brothers are going to handle the Labour Party's publicity for the next election campaign.

It's a topsy-turvy world.

Re: There's another salient reference in that 'toon...

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Political wit normally comes just before Hubris, which we know is the pride that leads inevitably to a fall. Time for Gordon to be on his guard perhaps: or maybe now is the time for his pension-fund tax chickens to come home to roost.
Of course, if the Scottish Nationalists win the next election, and opt for complete independence, Gordon would have no seat in Parliament. And we'd have no Scots MP's at Westminster. And we'd be giving Scotland no direct subsidy. This could be brilliant. England becomes the hinterland and outlying regions of London, and London directs policy. The Tories would wipe the floor with Labour without the Scots constituencies. They should be paying Alex Salmond a subsidy.

[e4q.livejournal.com]

i think the tories should reinvent themselves as anarcho-libertarians, that would make things more interesting.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I agree it would be interesting, but not whilst they're still attached to hanging and flogging and imprisoning the pinkos, foriegners, deviants etc. They're not exactly libertarian by nature, alas, more Stalinist actually: but with the worship of money replacing the cult of personality, because Maggie is (politically speaking) still dead. But so are Stalin, and Adolph, and Genghis Khan, and Attila. All the Tory party's secret loves, rejected by democracy, never to return.
Hahahaha.
Still, poor David.

[e4q.livejournal.com]

hanging and flogging does draw the crowds, but given so does big brother, it hardly seems worth it.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

We live in such a cultured society. I can feel proud of England's past intellectual achievements: I doubt that there will be too many in the future unless we change our cultural priorities. Disgusting as it may seem, that could mean less 'Big Brother' and more Beethoven, and 'forcing' high culture on the great unwashed.
I say keep 'em all in education until they can prove they'are fit to be in civilised society. All schools should be boarding schools/borstals, and the blighters should only be allowed out on parole....until they're about twenty-something, anyway. Then we just have to deal with the present generation of barely educated recidivists.
In reality I'm exactly the same as one of those peppery Colonels, it's just I have a set of High Culture prejudices, which include such silly things as honour and fairness: but I'm prepared to make an exception when dealing with, or talking about, the young.
Vicious little thugs and it's our fault. We have failed to give them discipline, structure, an appreciation of reason: but more criminal yet, we have a generation of young folk who have not been 'stretched' intellectually, at least en masse. Something like 10% of young folk go through the private school system. In general, the education they receive is almost comparable to the Grammar School education of the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Almost, but not quite. As for the rest....most time spent talking to them is like interrogating a cat in order to get it to reveal its opinions on Wittgenstein.

[e4q.livejournal.com]

having taught in FE and HE i would just be pleased if they left school being able to read and write - what do schools do for 11 to 13 years?

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we need appropriate cruelty:
Aut disce, aut discede; manet sors tertia, caedi. Which translates as 'Either learn, leave, or be prepared to be beaten.' That's how they used to beat education into Wykhamists: but it also meant that Winchester ended up with a reputation of being the cleverest and most learned of schools. Fear concentrates the minds wonderfully, as many old age pensioners have found when confronted by the young and thug-like.
Not that I've got an opinion, mind.

opinion

[e4q.livejournal.com]

natch. goes without saying.

this was the very reason i felt i could teach in tertiary rather than primary or secondary - "you know where the door is" is an excellent catch phrase.