Sir Keir Starmer 'absolutely' confident in chancellor after rows with farmers, pensioners, and employers
Sir Keir faced a grilling on his domestic agenda at a press conference at the G20 in Brazil on the 1,000th day of the Ukraine war.
The prime minister said his government needed to "stabilise the economy" when it came into power and has already "attracted investment that wasn't coming in" during the Tories' 14 years in Downing Street.
Technically, he was learned in the law; actually, so far as life was concerned, absolutely unconscious of that subtle chemistry of things that transcends all written law and makes for the spirit and, beyond that, the inutility of all law, as all wise judges know.
Theodore Dreiser - The Financier (1912)
5 comments:
It's a parallel situation to knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing but applied to legal issues.
The last words that any Cabinet Minister wants to hear.
Prime Minister, " I have absolute confidence in my Honourable colleague Mr / etc. Slyley Creep. He knows that he has my full backing.
Translation :- If this eedjit is going down then I was totally misled. What was his/her/their/its name.
Addendum. A stabilised economy. Like the Titanic, she is not going to sink any further. Success. Vote us in again.
That quote could actually have been written about Starmer. I don't know whether to feel reassured that such people have always existed, and society somehow coped; or to feel depressed that the gene hasn't been eliminated yet.
Woodsy - yes it is like knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. The legal position for everything but the value of nothing.
Doonhamer - "Like the Titanic, she is not going to sink any further."
Ha ha - it's just like that, until the scavengers come of course.
Sam - it's fairly reassuring in that we have history to learn from. Unfortunately we don't learn from it, but we could if only...
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