I'm not a snob, you can ask anyone. Well, anyone who matters.
In that spirit, Cameron's pronunciation of "Andy
Murray" was, in its way, a thing of beauty. Like his pronunciation of
"vote".
That, of course, is what happens to any accent if
one never meets anyone who does not have it: first, it becomes ridiculous;
then, it becomes incomprehensible.
Cameron's accent is now just on the cusp between
the two.
Game, set and match to Miliband today, and that
is by no means always the case. Cameron braying away with his head about to
explode.
Since time immemorial, it has been absolutely forbidden to ask where
the Tories got their money from. Suddenly, it no longer is.
But just wait until someone asks where their
candidates come from.
Where do their candidates come from?
ReplyDeleteWith any luck, we are all about to find out. It is one of the greatest of all British political mysteries, and there must be some reason for that.
ReplyDeleteYou mean there's something in the world of politics you don't know? That will ruin the election slogan I have picked out for you: "David Lindsay: he knows a shit of a lot about a shit of a lot!"
ReplyDelete"Entryism" does not begin to describe, for example, Rehman Chishti, who is now a rising star as MP for Gillingham and Rainham.
ReplyDeleteHe was Francis Maude's Labour opponent in 2005 while working for Benazir Bhutto, whom he assisted from 1991 until her assassination in 2007 in her leadership of a party the motto of which includes both "Islam is our Faith" and "Socialism is our Economy".
He was still doing that job when he defected to the Conservative Party in 2006 and became an aide to Maude as its Chairman.
There is plenty more where that came from. Plenty more.
This is cool!
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