Book of the Year
The ConservativeHomies have voted The Triumph of the Political Class their best book for 2007/08. Guido thinks they have made a good choice - the book is spot on. Peter Oborne anatomises a cross-party, parasitical ruling class. The class is personified in the next generation of most likely leaders of the major political parties; Clegg, Miliband and Cameron.With views that are essentially interchangeably metropolitan liberal, all that differentiates them besides the colour of their rosettes is a bit of proportional representation, some income redistribution and a little Euro-scepticism. They are crowded ideologically onto that marginal - voter - friendly, focus-grouped, centre - ground. All went to Oxbridge, all had politico-media-wonkish mini-careers before climbing the political greasy pole.
If you have not read it already, Guido can't recommend it enough...
If you have not read it already, Guido can't recommend it enough...
35 comments:
Never a truer word spoken.
The poblems with this country are there for everyone to see - 6.5 million on benefits or untraining programmes, violent crime, an uneducation system, out of control immigration, a third world NHS.
Where's anything in a centre right/left manifesto that's going to deal with any of these?
'Centre left/right', a code for 'don't worry, we're not going to do anything once we're in'.
i havent read it as yet but if he is describing a bunch of non jobs who have flawed egos and wank off at how good they are at manipulating the end user of democracy , into a dumb animal that can be fed celebrity shit or emotional dilemma day in day out , whilst they attend champagne dinner dos and awards for "best example of victim hood" and ensure that there media profile is as up there own arse as there pension and property portfolios.
there shortly going to be getting there cards.
just explain gordon in plain fucking english how you are going to pay for the mess , you know proper costed figures (like what is expected of government) , tell the good people of the uk how it is being done and further down the line how long before you can make any tax cuts to middle incomes .
i maintain you have lied and decieved the british public on a grand scale , and youve destroyed the labour party in the bargain.
dont belive ,eh!! why is eric ilsley shitting it or for that matter up on tyne side , labour heartland now wobbling , just what have you done gordon , just what have you done !!
The purpose of the political class IS the political class.
The return of austerity to the UK will lead to much more scrutiny of town halls, and central government.
As houses become worth less and less and people come to realise that they have nothing to lose expect more council tax rebellion, refusals to pay parking/speeding fines and possibly the BBC licence fee too.
The prisons are full after all - or so they keep telling us. Always cells for protesting pensioners though, aren't there !
A sure recipe for voter apathy.
There is no respite from the sheer tedium of it all, except for a final insane immersion in UK celebrity culture to finish off any vestige of independent thought.
Country's fucked!
I'm far from convinced that the 'ground' they inhabit is in the centre. The so called centre ground is in effect some way to the left. You're quite correct to say they are all fighting over the same small patch though.
Has Peter Oborne removed his tongue from Brown's ample backside yet?
Attention all motorists: petrol shortages are likely this week with some reports that panic buying has already started in some parts of the country.
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When exactly where the Political Class not victors?
I know of no such time. Possibly it could have been sometime during the Thatcher years. But that is a debate all in itself, with no obvious conclusion. Other then that they got shot of her in the end, so she could not have been doing exactly as she was told.
Ruling Class, Upper Class, Political Class, all much of the same thing. They RULE this planet because that is all these people know how to do. It is their job, their god given birth rite.
Otherwise why would god have allowed them to accumulate 3/4 of the entire wealth of the world? A job that requires a degree of inbred, personal greed for power, divine non-intervention, complete lack of normal human empathy, murderous ruthlessness, and blatant dishonesty, not present anywhere else outside a secure institution for the criminally insane, or the New York Mafia.
This is not new. Democratically elected national governments have long since had higher masters to serve, then the great unwashed voting public. So I personally can not see the purpose of this book judging by its front page.
The judge of a good British statesmen is not whether they put the dictates and interests of their higher masters before that of the electorate. This they must do or they would be electable toast before any X ever visited any ballot paper in anyones favor, never mind their own. It is how much, how often, how quickly they do, and how long they get away with not doing so, on time and as instructed.
This is the only mark of a British statesman thats matters. How much they protect the interests, culture, lives, and long term prosperity of the British people from the internal and external threats that come from their own respective national and international establishments. The most currently in our face one being the EU and its Common Purpose agents of destruction, disorder, and chaos.
I think it is just about safe to state that we are currently being roasted alive while our 'much betters' are just waiting for the gravy to come to the table.
Atlas
Just started reading it yesterday. Have to agree - its telling stuff.
The only problem is what's to be done about it?
Isn't it funny how the likes of Balls, Purnell, Cooper and Smith try and hide their Oxbridge education? If they have sharp minds they do their level best to hide them.
Yesterday the FT had an article on the absence of innovative, new service companies like Yahoo and Google. Apple's ipod may have a British designer, but It the UK's education and legal system is so world class why is it that we are left with the likes of Crapita? Yahoo was characterised as a global gorilla, all Broon seems to have encouraged are firms which can only be described as global gorilla droppings.
Broon and co have stiffled innovation, risk taking. Look at the way he stuffed the mobile phone companies, and destroyed independent IT consultancy.
What's to be done? Shoot the fucking lot of them and get on with life.
If we can't do that, cut the government in half, save a shed load of cash and tell the lazy half of society to look after themselves or fuck off. And then shoot the ones that are left (and the includes 'call me Davey' the chinless twat).
This 'government' is such a disgrace that if it wasn't so serious, I'd be pissing myself.
There are two kinds of people: producers and parasites.
Politicians are obvious examples of the latter.
Producers tend to the political right (cautious, pragmatic); parasites tend to the left (whimsical, ideological).
they all have a common purpose no doubt
There was a sad loser on Any Answers this afternoon whingeing about the abolition of the 10% tax band. Apparently he scrapes by on £7000 a year and will now have to pay an extra £4 a week tax. You could almost hear Dimblebore's tears splashing on the microphone. But no-one pointed out to the self-satisfied whinger, who was articulate enough to phone the BBC in his ample spare time, that you can't save for your old age on £7000 a year, so you'll go straight to the head of the queue for means-tested benefits when you're 65, while people who work and save for 40 years will get absolutely fuck-all. Isn't it reasonable that an educated person who makes virtually no contribution to the national economy should pay his fair share of tax on the miserable pittance he condescends to earn?
Nail them all up along the Appian Way. That should do it.
ANON 8:18
I think that was thick as thieves ringing up. What a stupid cunt he is. TAT love, best to fuck off to the next life dear!
Agree with "Spot the arse-licker"
Another sympathetic piece from Oborne on Gordon Brown in the Mail today.
Whether we're talking about Gordon's arse or Paul Dacre's is debatable.
I suppose the man's got to eat. Or should I say drink?
Agreed. But surely it's harder than ever for someone who doesn't fit the norm to be taken seriously.
The media struggle to accept anyone who doesn't fit in to what they imagine politicians to be. Voters too scared to vote for them. Political blogs would take them as figures of fun...
...Unfortunately
BROWN OVER AMERICA
Among the disgusting, bullying cowards who make up the global political elite the imprimatur of the revolting Senator Kennedy is probably, even now, much sought after and on Friday it was certainly manna from heaven to the UK's Dead Man Walking premier, himself a coward of great distinction.
Kennedy it was who left a girl young enough to be his daughter to drown in his submerged car in the cold, dark waters of Chappaquiddick Sound while he ran home, drunk, to placate his wife, sort out his alibi and bribe whoever it was necessary to bribe.
None of that famous Kennedy heroism for drowning Mary-Jo Kopechne, driven off a bridge by the Senator; you think Spunky-Bill Clinton is an amoral, draft-dodging, contemptible, cowardly piece of shit, Kennedy wrote the book and in the way of these things remains, nearly forty years on, a distinguished member of the US Senate. Fitting then that he should do warm-up for a man frightened, even, of a general election, of a straight question, of coming out of the closet.
Yesterday, Teddy, old and bloated and - one hopes - surely past dalliance with young girls, spent fifteen minutes praise-singing his protege, the snotgobbler, before Brown's outburst of NWO mania at the JFK Library. The whole UK, implied Ted, beseeched Brown to stay at the Treasury for, well, a lot longer than anyone else had done in a long time; no mention that Brown's co-blackmailee, Blair, couldn't budge him; no mention in fact of Blair at all, the UK, seemingly, run single-handedly, prudently, benevolently, these past eleven years by the Man With No Nails.
Brown, continued Kennedy, had all but abolished child poverty in the UK, lifted two million children out of poverty, he had. Puzzled UK viewers must have been muttering Ah, it's their affluence that makes the little bastards knife and shoot one another, drunk and drugged out of their minds, kicking householders to death; the values of canny Presbyterianism, trickling down to Dewsbury's hapless denizens. Brown's real accomplishment, of course, is to lift much of the country into debt, fear, suspicion, hostility and repression; or to put it another way, Calvinism.
But, metaphorised Kennedy lamely, Brown, master mariner, son of the fucking manse and moral compasseer had steered the Kennedy sailing boat safely through the choppy waters of Cape Cod; he could do the same with the entire fucking world. Brown had made his bones as a student university rector and a tv producer, the essential qualifications for re-ordering the world for the better, adolescent bollocks and make-believe. Brown's indefatigability would defeat turrism, Brown would cool and chide the very Sun itself into ending global warming; Brown would dragoon a billion chinks into moderate, prudent energy consumption, a billion South Americans, a billion Indians, all would be putty in the hands of prime minister Brown, as were all his hard-working subjects at home; a world transformed by his visions and values and industry beckoned, a world in which historical problems could at last be resolved.....
Kennedy's hagiography echoed that of his father Joseph. US Ambassador to the UK in the late 'thirties, the subject of Joe Kennedy's praise-singing then was a man like Brown with values and visions and a sense of mission and purpose; Kennedy senior's preferred global statesman was a man who, like Brown, favoured a New World Order, state control, state media, centralised services, population surveillance, special powers and identity cards, his name was Adolf Hitler.
Despised and ridiculed for his cowardice both at home and among hawks in the US, Brown's unerring Jonah instinct led him to cook up a grandiose and self-serving double act with his chum and mentor; like all of his endeavours it turned to shit before our eyes. His political judgements -like his morals - utterly worthless, Kennedy is a man who will be remembered for being his brothers' brother and for fleeing the scene of a crime; would that Brown's infamies were so relatively slight.
Come out, Gordon, nobody likes you, nobody trusts you, nobody believes you. Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Gordon ?
well put stan , now for the return home and face the music , new spin touches in place for audience to buy into , love bombing before election crank up starts .
but oh those economy questions , you dodge them now gordon and your party is completely finished . tax guarentees for middle incomes please !!
ammount of off balance sheet debt ,
Of course, the solution to the centre-ground crowding you rightly identify is the correct form of PR. Not some awful party list system, that would exacerbate the problem Oborne identifies. But multi-member constituency STV, for instance, now there's a system that would enable us to send some real representatives to Westminster.
What you right-wing twats don't seem able to come to terms with is this: Brown is not a Socialist, he's a fucking useless capitalist, and it's capitalism that's causing all you whinging twats so much grief. I'll just sit back and watch capitalism destroy itself from within. What price your poxy little palaces today? Happy fucking negative equity you twats.
Fucking delicious!
fucking delicious,who the fuck is going to pay for your mother fucking socialist/comnunist hellhole you parasitical cunt
You fucking capitalists of course. Jeez, what a plonker...
Fucking delicious!
fucking spastic,
ah, so you are a communist!
the new labour party is ofcourse riddled with former communists. members of the cp wanted to betray this country and be ruled by moscow.
the only difference to this plan is that the traitors are now called new labour and they want this country to be controlled by the EU.
some things never change.
fucking delicious,so you are a parasitical cunt then
spaz 9.27,
incorrect.
you see, unlike you, I post a name.
you just post garbage.
haven't you got the guts to post a name and stick to it?
fucking coward.
how very new labour.
Dear Mr Anonymous 10.26 and Mr Thick as Thieves. Re Jock
That's no way to speak to Mr Sheridan's one surviving voter, as his hero prepares for a prison sentence.
Actually, those supporting the Frankenstein Bill should look at this poor cunt to see what happens when you inter-breed humans with animals; or maybe they should just walk around Glasgow, there's fucking hundreds of them. They all have brass sovereign rings on every finger, misspelled tattoos on their pasty, perspiring foreheads and fucking great lumps of scrap metal hanging from their eyebrows and lips. Shame on the English taxpayer, really, for keeping them alive. Mr delicious, he'll be the one in the grubby white polyester shellsuit, with the skidmarks showing through, just like the rest of them. Scotland is the sickest, stupidest, fattest, drunkest and most violent country in Europe and this humourless moron is proof of it. NHS Scotland shouldn't let him on to an open ward where he can get at computers, although, to be fair, it's not as though he could give Jock a worse name than he already has. No point in blaming his parents; alsatians make notoriously bad fathers.
love from stanislav
I believe Old New Labour will loose the next general election by a surprisingly clear margin.
The Liberal Democrats are irrelevant.
We will win but I fear will quickly find ourselves ‘holding the baby’ on many fronts. Not being made of the right stuff Dave will ‘get found out’ - so the silly dance will start all over again soon thereafter.
In addition to considering who their Mum and Dad voted for, voters reasoning will doubtless go something like this –
1. I think its time for a change but I can’t really explain why go away politics is boring.
2. Vote for who’s most likely to win – there you go mate I always vote Tory – I can say that because there’s no way you could find out that I actually voted New Labour in ’97 - I remember that year because I bought my council house for £4.50 and its now worth £280k!
3. Which way to the free lunch – I hate tax but I want better public services, stop talking all technical I’ll have a pint of Stella please did you see the football last night?
If ever there was an opportunity for a real heavy weight Centre Right front bench team to make history it was now. But what has our lot done for the past 10 years apart from go on about how much money they could have made if they hadn’t given up their glittering careers to become an MP or pop on a baseball cap to wank off about the Euro?
We needed a rough and tough team of innovators, people prepared to take the big smelly decisions which made our reputation – what we actually got was a gang of limp establishment nancy boys who don’t want to rock the boat and love nothing more than to immerse themselves in smart arse technical policy tweeks and comfy chats with luxury liberals. I guess it must all just feel a bit different when your Dad has got £250m in the bank!
You get found out in the end.
Twat face said; 'fucking delicious,who the fuck is going to pay for your mother fucking socialist/comnunist hellhole you parasitical cunt'.
Me, parasitical? Oh my, that's me told then. A filthy fucking parasitical capitalist - capitalism: where you dream the dream, and the bankers screw the shit out of you - castigates me for all capitalisms failings. Jesus H. Keerist!
Shut-up you fucking dickhead. It's YOUR fucking system, and still YOU can't make it work. Fucking barrow-boys. About as much use as a concrete fucking parachute.
As for the balls-achingly peurile polish wannabee; we scots rule you and, it seems, 'twas ever thus. Bow, you twat. Remember this carefully though; cameron is a sweaty, as was your queen's (no, not Brown) mother. So, your queen is half-a-sweaty. And the other half of her is fucking GERMAN. Har-de-fucking-har. LMFAO.
Brown is though, I grant you, a cunt; he's seen more cock-ends than week-ends. Or so I'm reliably informed...
Happy negative equity to y'all.
Oh yes, and shove your union up your arses, you twats.
Fucking delicious!
Maurice Cowling said it first - forty years ago. Then Mrs Thatcher tried to break the mould. But they are back again. Which house has more hereditary politicians - the Commons or the Lords?
fucking delicious,good grief,calm down old chap
thick as thieves said...
spaz 9.27,
'incorrect.
you see, unlike you, I post a name.
you just post garbage.
haven't you got the guts to post a name and stick to it?
fucking coward.
how very new labour.'
Shut up you bleeding windy old tart. Can someone in your nursing home stop letting this twat get hold of a computer please, he is a fucking idiot and I really feel embarrassed reading the deluded postings of a silly old tart. Thank you!
stalk someone else cunt.
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