Round and round went the bloody great wheel
Oh, for Christ’s sake. Here we go again. John Harris on David Miliband:
A good performance, then – even his everyman-ish glottal stops are sounding more natural.
Another charlatan. I suppose after so long we should be used to journalists swiftly moving over such casual yet contemptuous deceit with nary a backward glance.
Blair was a master at it, talking like a working class salt while batting away the soft questions on the Des O’Connor Show and on other televisual sofas. Others followed.
Listen to the two voices of Harriet Harman, pre- and post- her deputy leadership victory. The niece of an earl slumming it with the party members and then putting the plum back in when she’s got what she was after.
But she didn’t understand. She just smiled and held my hand.
It’s one of the minor paradoxes of New Labour that they’ve worked so hard to sound like the people they so clearly loathe and have worked so hard to destroy. It’s camouflage I suppose - your killer is hiding in plain sight. Like Norman Bates becoming his mother.
Posted on July 31st, 2008 at 7:56 pm
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You’re now fully in the “they loathe and want to destroy the working class” rather than the “they’re arrogant idiots who think what they’re doing is good for the working class despite all evidence to the contrary” camp, then?
john b’s latest blog post… Cuil isn’t
That’s a good question. Is the dawn raid on an asylum seeker loathing or misplaced good intentions? How about the ongoing misery inflicted by a half-arsedly implemented tax credit system that we knew was a piece of shit five years ago? Or implementing a tax reform they new would punish the low-waged (and still is, despite promises to fix it)? Crap Land Rovers in Afghanistan?
I’ve certainly been a subscriber to Grey’s Law for quite a while now:
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Which allows me to have my cake and eat it.
Which made me think of:
Jarvis Cocker announced last Monday night (July 21) on stage that he feels the American media is unfair to presidential candidate Barack Obama.
“They’re really taking the piss out of Barack Obama (on the news) and its really not fair”, the singer stated on stage during his performance in Brooklyn at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg.
“What I am saying is kill all those capitalist bastards…and then piss on their ashes”, said Cocker right before performing his hit ‘Cunts Are Still Ruling he World’.
I do love a bit of Northern invective