This is funny. As Tony Blair used to say, "Edukashon, Edukashon, Edukashon."
This is very funny. Honey, I shrunk the wife.
And this is the funniest British political photograph since David Miliband and his banana. Congratulations to the soldiers who kept a straight face to deliver this priceless image.
"This time next year, deep into the first winter of the Civil War"? In his dreams. Feel the fear of whoever he thinks that he is staring at. Fear that they are going to die laughing. Nevertheless, while people who do this sort of thing are obviously ludicrous, they are also very, very, very nasty. When Itamar Ben-Gvir was of military service age, then the IDF refused to conscript him, on political grounds. Yet look at him now.
But when I tell you that there is going to be a hung Parliament, then you can take that to the bank. I spent the 2005 Parliament saying that it was psephologically impossible for the Heir to Blair's Conservative Party to win an overall majority. I predicted a hung Parliament on the day that the 2017 General Election was called, and I stuck to that, entirely alone, all the way up to the publication of the exit poll eight long weeks later. And on the day that Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, I predicted that a General Election between him and Keir Starmer would result in a hung Parliament.
To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.
Even funnier than Johnson on his zipwire or Truss on her tank.
ReplyDeleteAnd who would have thought that possible?
DeleteHe's only an Opposition politician, what right does he have to a uniform?
ReplyDeleteWhat right has any politician, as such? But your point is well made.
DeleteIt all goes back to that Thatcher on a tank picture that was a joke at the time.
ReplyDeleteIt is a particularly striking example, but any picture of her now looks ridiculous. She has become an unimaginably ludicrous figure.
DeleteWould Starmer fight in a real war?
ReplyDeleteIn all fairness, he is 61. But always ignore anyone who advocated a military intervention unless you could imagine that person as an 18-year-old in battle.
DeleteThe call for war always comes from the liberal bourgeoisie. That is the class least likely to join the Armed Forces voluntarily, or to see combat even in periods of conscription.
Operationally, that is of course just as well. But if there is not a strong enough case for conscription, then there is not a strong enough case for war. Unless a country needs to mobilise its entire healthy and able-bodied male population of fighting age, then it is not under sufficient threat to justify going to war at all.