Tories are ‘political wing of Flat Earth Society’, taunts Starmer
Sir Keir Starmer taunted Rishi Sunak during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 28 February, by referring to the Conservative party as the “political wing of the Flat Earth Society.”
The Labour leader said the Tories have been “claiming that Britain is run by a shadowy cabal made up of activists, the deep state, and most chillingly of all the Financial Times,” referring to Liz Truss’s comments at CPAC in the US.
The former prime minister blamed the “deep state” for “sabotaging” her controversial tax-cutting plans from Kwasi Kwarteng’s disastrous mini-budget.
There's many a man hath more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare - A Comedy of Errors
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Does "The Deep State" exist? Not as a monolithic entity with secret handshakes and an underground HQ.
But consider a murmuration of starlings... it is a shape made up of many individuals doing their own thing, just alongside lots of other individuals moving in similar ways.
So there is the conspiracy theory of history, the cock-up theory of history, and now I present the most recent... correlation theory of history.
In my view the Deep State is a handy label, a useful fiction. Not real but many people/organisations who happen to be motivated by common world views.
That would be true even if did not have one single teeny weeny curly and short anywhere on his body.
That would be true even if every square picometer of his gleaming body was bereft of even a teeny weeny curly and short.
DJ - a murmuration of starlings is a good analogy, I tend to think in terms of shoals of fish or a vast international dining club where membership is by invitation only. There is a problem with terms such as "Deep State" or "Blob", but I'd say the problem is mostly due to powerful pressures which resist defining what these and similar terms might refer to. WEF is useful because it exists.
Doonhamer - I prefer not to think of his gleaming body, but hairless does seem to suit him somehow.
I can't claim too much in the hair department. 😢
DJ, please don't ask anyone in pleasant company, what a 'flock of starlings' means...
Double message was because just as I hit Comment on the first I got an "Oops, that did not work" message and I was ejected from that page. Not because my short term memory loss has slipped to ultra short term.
I hope.
James - I'm the other way, it just keeps growing.
Scrobs - what about crows?
Doonhamer - I get that. "Oops, that did not work" seems to pop up after it has worked.
The original Tammly used to shed so much fur on the living room carpet I used to wonder, whilst hoovering, how much was left on him? He had a very insouciant personality.
Tammly - we had a cocker spaniel who shed fur all the time. It must grow at quite a rate.
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