“I’m a celebrity and you aren’t. I can do this and you can’t. Consistency and facts are for the little people darling.”
To my mind it is not easy to make sense of hypocrisy taken to this level. As if we aren’t supposed to make sense of it without the assistance of a comparable level of cynicism.
My best guess is that actors and actresses just get used to playing parts. Those two bits of her are no more joined up than are the Patsy Stone character and that one in The New Avengers. She's just a series of rah-rah speeches and daft attitudes held together with a lot of makeup.
This idiot lectures us on not travelling, and exchanging that for 2oz of butter. What planet is she on? Come to that, what part of the planet hasn't she visited in her television travel programmes. "Oh look, darling, I'm in India, and then I'm going to the Maldives". And the list goes on. I wonder how much butter she has forsaken in dealing with this crisis? She seems to put her mouth in gear before engaging brain. She did the same with persuading the government to allow ex Gurkha Nepalese to live in the UK. In theory, that's fine. I served with them during my Army service, and they were fantastic soldiers, and deserve every opportunity they are given. Their terms of Service, based on 14 years service with the British Army, gave them a pension and a gratuity, which would allow them to live quite comfortably in Nepal. Enter Ms Lumley, and the pressure she put on the government, using her fame, popularity, and contacts, to embarrass those numpties who couldn't see further than their next election campaign. Coming to the UK, the ex Gurkhas, together with their wives, children, and both maternal and paternal parents, wanted to move to the areas they were stationed in, which happened to be in the most expensive parts of the country, such as Fleet and Church Crookham, as well as Aldershot, Farnborough, Kent, and Catterick. They discovered that, in the UK, their ample (for Nepal) pension went nowhere. Then, there was, and still is, the problems of housing, schools, etc. Where did they stand in the line of those on the social housing waiting lists? It is not unusual to see them placed in B&Bs in Aldershot, Farnborough, Windsor, or Guildford, and walking the streets, congregating in libraries or inside shopping centres where. especially in winter, the weather is cold. It is true that, rather than be parasites on benefits, you can see them driving buses, being security officers, or opening Nepalese restaurants, which shows their strength of character. I wonder, though, how many of them were sold a false promise by people like Joanna Lumley, and now regret being fooled by her? Penseivat
Penseivat - very interesting - thanks for that. I remember her banging on about it and wondered at the time if she really knew what she was talking about. Clearly she didn't, yet the cost of living difference was easy enough to check.
It probably didn't occur to her to check, let alone modify her act. It does seem to be an act, nothing more.
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My best guess is that actors and actresses just get used to playing parts. Those two bits of her are no more joined up than are the Patsy Stone character and that one in The New Avengers. She's just a series of rah-rah speeches and daft attitudes held together with a lot of makeup.
Shades of the opposite to this talented speaker!
https://youtu.be/zJdqJu-6ZPo
Sam - yet it's not an easy hurdle to get over because we must all have that capability, that shallowness even if we make less use of it.
Scrobs - he makes her look like a fool, doesn't he?
This idiot lectures us on not travelling, and exchanging that for 2oz of butter. What planet is she on? Come to that, what part of the planet hasn't she visited in her television travel programmes. "Oh look, darling, I'm in India, and then I'm going to the Maldives". And the list goes on. I wonder how much butter she has forsaken in dealing with this crisis?
She seems to put her mouth in gear before engaging brain. She did the same with persuading the government to allow ex Gurkha Nepalese to live in the UK. In theory, that's fine. I served with them during my Army service, and they were fantastic soldiers, and deserve every opportunity they are given. Their terms of Service, based on 14 years service with the British Army, gave them a pension and a gratuity, which would allow them to live quite comfortably in Nepal. Enter Ms Lumley, and the pressure she put on the government, using her fame, popularity, and contacts, to embarrass those numpties who couldn't see further than their next election campaign. Coming to the UK, the ex Gurkhas, together with their wives, children, and both maternal and paternal parents, wanted to move to the areas they were stationed in, which happened to be in the most expensive parts of the country, such as Fleet and Church Crookham, as well as Aldershot, Farnborough, Kent, and Catterick. They discovered that, in the UK, their ample (for Nepal) pension went nowhere. Then, there was, and still is, the problems of housing, schools, etc. Where did they stand in the line of those on the social housing waiting lists? It is not unusual to see them placed in B&Bs in Aldershot, Farnborough, Windsor, or Guildford, and walking the streets, congregating in libraries or inside shopping centres where. especially in winter, the weather is cold. It is true that, rather than be parasites on benefits, you can see them driving buses, being security officers, or opening Nepalese restaurants, which shows their strength of character. I wonder, though, how many of them were sold a false promise by people like Joanna Lumley, and now regret being fooled by her?
Penseivat
Penseivat - very interesting - thanks for that. I remember her banging on about it and wondered at the time if she really knew what she was talking about. Clearly she didn't, yet the cost of living difference was easy enough to check.
It probably didn't occur to her to check, let alone modify her act. It does seem to be an act, nothing more.
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