tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post2867585610069278528..comments2024-03-29T09:09:46.823+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : Amber Rudd is apparently stupid as well as malign Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-60837208496619147442019-09-09T21:02:53.799+03:002019-09-09T21:02:53.799+03:00“I knew a man who used to say,
Not once but twenty...“I knew a man who used to say,<br />Not once but twenty times a day,<br />That in the turmoil and the strife<br />(His very words) of Public Life<br />The thing of ultimate effect<br />Was Character – not Intellect.<br />He therefore was at strenuous pains<br />To atrophy his puny brains<br />And registered success in this<br />Beyond the dreams of avarice,<br />Till, when he had at last become<br />Blind, paralytic, deaf and dumb<br />Insensible and cretinous,<br />He was admitted ONE OF US.<br />They therefore, (meaning Them by ‘They’)<br />His colleagues of the N.C.A.,<br />The T.U.C., the I.L.P.,<br />Appointed him triumphantly<br />To bleed the taxes of a clear<br />200,000 Francs a year<br />(Swiss), as the necessary man<br />For Conferences at Lausanne,<br />Geneva ,Basle, Locarno, Berne:<br />A salary which he will earn,<br />Yes –EARN I say- until he Pops,<br />Croaks, passes in his checks and Stops:-<br />When he will be remembered for<br />A week, a month, or even more."<br /><br /><br />Belloc, of course.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-88750958604958880852019-09-09T12:19:28.629+03:002019-09-09T12:19:28.629+03:00 “I knew a man who used to say,
Not once but twent... “I knew a man who used to say,<br />Not once but twenty times a day,<br />That in the turmoil and the strife<br />(His very words) of Public Life<br />The thing of ultimate effect<br />Was Character – not Intellect.<br />He therefore was at strenuous pains<br />To atrophy his puny brains<br />And registered success in this<br />Beyond the dreams of avarice,<br />Till, when he had at last become<br />Blind, paralytic, deaf and dumb<br />Insensible and cretinous,<br />He was admitted ONE OF US.<br />They therefore, (meaning Them by ‘They’)<br />His colleagues of the N.C.A.,<br />The T.U.C., the I.L.P.,<br />Appointed him triumphantly<br />To bleed the taxes of a clear<br />200,000 Francs a year<br />(Swiss), as the necessary man<br />For Conferences at Lausanne,<br />Geneva ,Basle, Locarno, Berne:<br />A salary which he will earn,<br />Yes –EARN I say- until he Pops,<br />Croaks, passes in his checks and Stops:-<br />When he will be remembered for<br />A week, a month, or even more.<br /><br />Belloc, of course.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-46511798097207702112019-08-14T14:38:34.275+03:002019-08-14T14:38:34.275+03:00EAST ANGLIAN DAILY TIMES:
Election 2017 Witham Pa...EAST ANGLIAN DAILY TIMES:<br /><br />Election 2017 Witham Parliamentary constituency<br /><br />Priti Patel 31,670 votes 64.3%<br />Labour 13,034 26.2%<br /><br />I challenge all my colleagues in the Conservative Party and in Westminster: Don't label me as a BME. I've said that to people in the cabinet. I've said that to civil servants. I think it's patronising and insulting.<br /><br />I don't like the term BME. I'm British first and foremost, because I was born in Britain.<br /><br />Priti PatelTomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-28501252239942350992019-08-13T16:31:59.262+03:002019-08-13T16:31:59.262+03:00'it was renamed the Pritti Patel test'
It...'it was renamed the Pritti Patel test'<br /><br />It's Priti.Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.com