NJS 4386 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 I think James O'brien said it best when he talks about how part of the education/culture of the UK is that we're deliberately ingrained with the notion that anyone who's that posh is automatically intelligent and worthy of being thought of as our "better" with the right to rule and be looked up to. Hilariously it applies to Johnson as well but Rees-Mogg epitomises it. It's all emperor's new clothes of course. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 2 hours ago, NJS said: I think James O'brien said it best when he talks about how part of the education/culture of the UK is that we're deliberately ingrained with the notion that anyone who's that posh is automatically intelligent and worthy of being thought of as our "better" with the right to rule and be looked up to. Hilariously it applies to Johnson as well but Rees-Mogg epitomises it. It's all emperor's new clothes of course. Works both ways, the attendees of Eton etc being taught to be arrogant enough to believe their own bollocks. Then, as you mention, large swathes of the populace lapping it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44900 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 His thoughts on this are about as nuanced as his thoughts on everything. He's like a human tabloid, even when he's talking about cricket. Absolutely scandalous that he's even being interviewed about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30620 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 I was always more of a Bill Beaumont fan myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 (edited) 49 minutes ago, Gemmill said: His thoughts on this are about as nuanced as his thoughts on everything. He's like a human tabloid, even when he's talking about cricket. Absolutely scandalous that he's even being interviewed about it. Well he got the seat in the HoL (like a fair few others - see that absolute nutjob Kate Hooey) purely because of his vocal pro-Brexit stance. That and his being a public figure. And that’s it. Spends plenty time at his second home in Spain of course, absolutely insulated from any of the ill effects of the Brexit he campaigned for Edited December 27, 2022 by Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30620 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 ‘See that fella who’s on TV tonight? He wouldn’t be allowed on TV these days’ 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33245 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 He'll have more time to ponder such things when he's out on his arse in a couple of years, the thick cunt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Should get himself on RTG. They love getting annoyed at stuff they’ve just made up too 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30620 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 7 hours ago, ewerk said: ‘See that fella who’s on TV tonight? He wouldn’t be allowed on TV these days’ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44900 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Let's do this. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33245 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Gemmill said: Let's do this. He'd be like the Cuban president saying Salud! Salud! to everybody at the embassy party in godfather as every fucker else runs away. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21627 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Gemmill said: Let's do this. Yes, lets. Just listening to the last Oh God What Now podcast of the year there and they made a fairly good point that all these populists, and also supposed geniuses like Musk, are falling flat on their faces through a combination of believing ther own hype (aided by their sycophants) and just their own rank stupidity and incompetence. I do have a tiny bit of hope this era of lunacy might be drawing to a close now. It's a pleasure to see Rees-Mogg fucking a fucked party even fucking more, the fucking runt. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 JRM would be the ultimate symbol of this era of conservatives. Thick as mince, corrupt as fuck, talentless, has had everything handed to him on a plate and constantly lies through his teeth. All the while believing his own hype, thinking his education has equipped him with the tools to talk his way out of anything. He’d be as bad as Truss and if it got to the members he’d be right up their street 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 11281 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 No doubt he has sent his nomination by stagecoach. Or perhaps the more modern telegram. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 9431 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 22 minutes ago, RobinRobin said: No doubt he has sent his nomination by stagecoach. Or perhaps the more modern telegram. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 11281 Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 It’s absolutely due to policy (and it’s effects) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 11281 Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Indeed but they want someone better at lying about those effects 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6682 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Donelan has advised against the sale of Channel 4. Predictably, her predecessor as Culture Secretary is going nuts on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6682 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 This response though... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebob toonpants 3997 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gemmill 44900 Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 I'm alright at maths, and that's sort of "the way my brain works", and I think it is massive for problem solving in the real world. But you've done all the essential stuff (and a decent amount of non-essential) by the time GCSEs are done. And if it wasn't your thing then, which it won't be for tens of thousands of kids, you don't need two extra years of it. Unless you have an aptitude and a real affinity for it, the stuff you learn beyond GCSE is borderline impossible and completely fucking worthless. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 9431 Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 Just now, Gemmill said: I'm alright at maths, and that's sort of "the way my brain works", and I think it is massive for problem solving in the real world. But you've done all the essential stuff (and a decent amount of non-essential) by the time GCSEs are done. And if it wasn't your thing then, which it won't be for tens of thousands of kids, you don't need two extra years of it. Unless you have an aptitude and a real affinity for it, the stuff you learn beyond GCSE is borderline impossible and completely fucking worthless. worth the square root of fuck all tbh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 Sunak’s almost in the Screaming Lord Sutch phase now. Where he can promise whatever because he’s never going to be able to fulfil it anyway. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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