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Monday, 5 December 2011

Political platitudinarian

Ed Balls - from Wikipedia

You find no difficulty in tolerating him then? - you have a respect for a political platitudinarian as insensible as an ox to everything he can't turn into political capital. You think his monumental obtuseness suited to the dignity of the English gentleman.

George Eliot - Daniel Deronda
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4 comments:

  1. Sam Vega5 December 2011 at 09:48

    Just imagine growing up and going through school with his surname. It would be very difficult to develop normally, wouldn't it? You would either become a bully, or an anxious bullshitter. Or perhaps both.

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  2. A K Haart5 December 2011 at 14:31

    SV - yes, I'm surprised he didn't change his name early in his political career.

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  3. James Higham5 December 2011 at 16:51

    Bilderberger too.

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  4. A K Haart5 December 2011 at 18:30

    JH - yes he is, I'd forgotten that.

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