Maybe so but I don't think voters say to themselves - strewth I'm fed up with all this managerialism. I certainly don't.
To my mind these two paragraphs are closer but not quite there -
All this is beyond the comprehension of the managerial mind, with its distrust of the spontaneous, the unexpected, the gesture or feeling which takes everyone by surprise and makes us laugh or reduces us to tears. Brexit for most of the time is discussed in an unbearably dry, technocratic, managerial manner, as a series of pragmatic trade-offs which we have all got to be grown-up enough to accept. The present Prime Minister could never quite transcend that grimly reductive approach. The Conservatives now need to find someone who can.
The missing link here is honesty, particularly honesty about the series of pragmatic trade-offs. Voters would probably put up with a dry, technocratic, managerial manner if presented honestly and if the trade-offs were in the open.
Yet as everyone knows, vested interests have few problems in corrupting the technical aspects and the trade-offs in any political debate. That's the core of it - dishonesty. That dry, technocratic, managerial manner cannot easily hide dishonesty in our digital world.
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Absolutely. People know we've been systematically lied to. It might well be the case that May has doggedly tried to broker the best deal for us. But the problem is deeper. It is that she shouldn't have gone for a deal at all - just Brexit.
I'm halfway through a really bad biography of May, by journalist Virginia Blackburn. It attempts to talk her up and present her in a positive light, but it is clear that May is an unexceptional woman who had been hopelessly out of her depth since leaving Oxford.
Updating yesterday's theme about voting. I went around lunchtime. Very quiet. But this evening, it seems very busy. Amazingly, some bloke asked me where the polling station was and we got chatting. A simple country labourer, he actually asked me for advice on how to vote. I was very happy to help him out.
"It is that she shouldn't have gone for a deal at all - just Brexit."
Spot on, Sam!
I never voted for a 'deal', I just voted for the UK to get rid of everything the EU stood for, telling my country what to do, by unelected pimps.
Why we didn't ever just say 'sod off, we're away now', is a question the blasted civil service and the lame, stupid politicians couldn't handle, which is why we need someone in charge who has actually put their balls on the block... (and that goes for the girls as well, they're usually better at negotiations than blokes, believe me)!
The result we're seeing now is that MPs are just faffers, unable to see beyond their own arses, and needing the money/prestige/plonkerism. Nothing else. They're a disgrace to real leaders, and my MP, Greg Clark is just one of those inadequate losers who say one thing and do bugger all. I have photos to prove it, and minutes of meetings where promises were made and abandoned soon afterwards.
Sorry Mr H, rant needed for blood pressure reasons but maybe classed as very rude here..:0(
I watched May answering Mark Francois question about prosecuting N I Soldier veterans.
Her reply gave me the impression that she was just repeating something learned by rote and had no emotion at all. I got the feeling that she may be on some heavy dose of medication.
Sam - I wonder if Oxford is a source of too many unexceptional people who end up being promoted much too far, merely because they made it through Oxford?
Maybe we went during a lull, but it was certainly quiet although the polling station has been changed and isn't as convenient as the old one.
Scrobs - well put, many MPs are just faffers who need the money/prestige/plonkerism. Some seem to work hard for their constituents but many clearly don't.
Anon - looking at the emotional nature of her resignation she may well have been on something because the pressure must have been colossal.
May would be out of her depth standing on a soggy flannel.
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