Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Hal: Any Theme Will Do
My imagination having been dwelling in the magnetospheric intellectual realms of American politics for the past few weeks, this morning I plummet into the moronic mud that is Brown's Britain. Here is Jonathan Freedland's account of the Great Leader's latest initiative. No it is not April 1st. Seemingly Hal watches talent shows like The X-Factor, Any Dream Will Do and How Do You Solve a Problem Lie Maria? These shows are, of course, inspired in their heroic labours by the poet Gray's immortal insight 'Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.' What joy it would bring to the heart of Gray to now that we now have Andrew Lloyd Weber to bring us every blushing flower! And Hal has, indeed, also called on Gray's Elegy to explain his latest deep concern for the people of Britain. For Hal, these shows are all about 'unlocking talent' and, yes, that is to be the 'over-arching theme' of his new decrees - sorry, policies - in education and employment. Does anybody, anywhere believe this horseshit? Hal is rapidly making Blair look like Marcus Aurelius. It used to be said that Hal was a very bright man surrounded by bright young things. He isn't and they aren't.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
He's not big and he's not clever and he never was. We have lived off the boom caused by cheap money over the last twenty years and saved nothing.
ReplyDeleteBrown's greatest achievement is to have bought votes by stealthily to have increased the bloated army of useless public servants (and their pension entitlements) during the boom times and put us in hock for decades to come to 'public/private partnerships' to keep the public building boom out of the national debt.
He is a fraudster who has betrayed the British people in favour of his tribal loyalties to Labour and Scotland.
Yes Philip - but don't forget we voted for it!
ReplyDeleteMarcus Aurelius and Gray are apt to what I am doing this morning, an examination of the records of the war graves commission for Belgium during WW1. My God, but some families took one hell of a mowing.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the poem, I needed it.
You appear to have the most fascinating job ,Vince. What is it exactly?
ReplyDeleteGreat insight there Bryan.Brown's automatic response to anything is to chuck a new army of his bureaucratic clients at it. Don't be unfair to Marcus Aurelius. When a publishers bidding for Blair's autobiography showed him three books (including one really, really good one) as examples of what they do, he looked perplexed, as if he had never seen one.....they found this unsettling.
ReplyDeleteHistory, Bryan, social and economic. But to-day, it is attempting to find a bridge, otherwise a goodly part of last summer will be filed under 'future use'. Or as Gray put it 'mouldering heap'.
ReplyDeleteI love that Marcus Aurelius line. So much so, that I think I might throw it into dinner party chit-chat to demonstrate what a sophisticated fellow I am.
ReplyDeleteBrown is actually very much like Blair without the psychopathic charm.
ReplyDeleteBoth lunge far to the right when backed in a corner and both can't stop spinning. Labour under Blair went far more to the right than the conervatives would have dared. For Blair that's no doubt an achievement.