The Curmudgeon: We’ll Eat Again, Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When
Philip on Gordon Brown’s relentless optimism…
“Today, the issues may be different, more complex, more global” than the Second World War, an altogether simpler and more local affair; yet nevertheless, “the qualities we need to meet them the British people have demonstrated in abundance before”. After all, we survived the First and Second World Wars by mortgaging ourselves to the Americans (who could afford us at the time); we survived the industrial revolution by stealing from brown people and subjecting our own people to vile factory conditions, draconian poor laws and the workhouse; we kept smiling through the Black Death by blaming it on Jews and witches: whitewashed with a minimal twenty-first-century gloss, these are all good, sound New Labour coping strategies.
Posted on December 28th, 2008 at 9:09am under Brown, New Labour, The coming apocalypse
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If only the man had a grasp of historical fact, that could be a good quote.
DK
P.S. Totally ignoring history, come to think of it, is a “good, sound New Labour coping strateg[y]“. Do you think that post’s ironic?
I’m confused. Were these comments posted under a ‘persona’?