Suppose we take Sir Keir Starmer as an example of someone who utters abominable nonsense as Charles Dickens’ oily character Mr Chadband does in Bleak House.
So, Mr. Chadband—of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin—retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in the oil-trade.
Charles Dickens - Bleak House (1852-53)
There is a useful question here. It’s not only Starmer’s abominable nonsense we wonder at, nor that he carries on with it, but how did he ever have the audacity to begin?
The point to be made is that millions of us don’t have that level of audacity or anything like it. We can’t begin to spout the abominable nonsense Starmer spouts. Where did the required audacity come from and when?
Charles Dickens - Bleak House (1852-53)
There is a useful question here. It’s not only Starmer’s abominable nonsense we wonder at, nor that he carries on with it, but how did he ever have the audacity to begin?
The point to be made is that millions of us don’t have that level of audacity or anything like it. We can’t begin to spout the abominable nonsense Starmer spouts. Where did the required audacity come from and when?
2 comments:
WEF and similar, over many decades ... oblivious to reality, only 1984 phase five ideology, permanently stuck in phase four.
James - probably learned as a teenager and like Corbyn never matured.
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