Elites

Elites#5836

By Tubby Isaacs - Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:02 pm

- Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:02 pm #5836

I didn't have this one on my list. Then again, I hadn't accounted for Nick Timothy.

I thought an English Parliament was something most English people couldn't be bothered with, but never mind.

Re: Elites#5877

By Crabcakes - Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:09 pm

- Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:09 pm #5877

Elites? Who does the grammar school attending, university educated former chief of staff to the highest office in the land, who fell into a very well paid job at a broadsheet despite being uniformly considered utterly terrible at his previous role, have in mind?

Oh yes, people who don't agree with him. Still, I suppose they are 'elite' compared to him if measured on scales that assess competence, lack of idiocy and generally not being utterly woeful.

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Re: Elites#5879

By Andy McDandy - Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:12 pm

- Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:12 pm #5879

Back in 1985 Stephen Fry was talking about how Conservative commentators would regularly trot out the "Why are all the clever buggers on the left?" routine. Plus ca change...

As the actress said to the bishop, rabbi, imam and priest
"My eyes have seen the glory, I'm a born again Atheist!"

Re: Elites#5887

By Bones McCoy - Tue Jul 06, 2021 1:12 pm

- Tue Jul 06, 2021 1:12 pm #5887

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:12 pm Back in 1985 Stephen Fry was talking about how Conservative commentators would regularly trot out the "Why are all the clever buggers on the left?" routine. Plus ca change...

Hardly our fault that the right appoints from a bottomless pool of inbred "feelers".

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Re: Elites#5894

By Tubby Isaacs - Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:40 pm

- Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:40 pm #5894

Has Nick Timothy ever shown any interest in an English Parliament before? Did he hate England before?

Re: Elites#5909

By mattomac - Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:47 pm

- Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:47 pm #5909

Those elites eh coming over here stealing our jobs.

Re: Elites#5914

By Crabcakes - Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:20 pm

- Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:20 pm #5914

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:40 pm Has Nick Timothy ever shown any interest in an English Parliament before? Did he hate England before?

He has in the sense he wanted to be a Tory MP at the last election, but guess what? He failed to get picked.

Re: Elites#5915

By Tubby Isaacs - Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:29 pm

- Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:29 pm #5915

Yeah, the elites of Meriden Conservative Party rejected him.

Re: Elites#5916

By Cyclist - Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:01 pm

- Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:01 pm #5916

Are you telling me he's too stupid even for the Conservatives?

Sod it!

Re: Elites#5917

By Andy McDandy - Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:26 pm

- Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:26 pm #5917

"Hey, remember me? I fucked your party! Gissa job!"

As the actress said to the bishop, rabbi, imam and priest
"My eyes have seen the glory, I'm a born again Atheist!"

Re: Elites#5921

By MisterMuncher - Tue Jul 06, 2021 10:19 pm

- Tue Jul 06, 2021 10:19 pm #5921

I'm reminded of a born again chap I used to occasionally joust with when of a mind to amuse myself. He characterised my preference for empiricism and logic as "just snobbery. Intellectual snobbery".

Much like these folks, he harboured the idea that the reason some people tried to be clever was the hidden belief that "we" knew "they" were right all along, and it was all posturing because we couldn't accept our lot. Elitist Indeed.

We regard capitalist journalism as an effective weapon in the hands of a well-informed, but utterly unscrupulous, enemy, rather than merely as an unbiased recorder of passing events.