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Elites
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:02 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
I didn't have this one on my list. Then again, I hadn't accounted for Nick Timothy.
I thought an English Parliament was something most English people couldn't be bothered with, but never mind.
Re: Elites
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:09 pm
by Crabcakes
Elites? Who does the grammar school attending, university educated former chief of staff to the highest office in the land, who fell into a very well paid job at a broadsheet despite being uniformly considered utterly terrible at his previous role, have in mind?
Oh yes, people who don't agree with him. Still, I suppose they are 'elite' compared to him if measured on scales that assess competence, lack of idiocy and generally not being utterly woeful.
Re: Elites
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:12 pm
by Andy McDandy
Back in 1985 Stephen Fry was talking about how Conservative commentators would regularly trot out the "Why are all the clever buggers on the left?" routine. Plus ca change...
Re: Elites
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 1:12 pm
by Bones McCoy
Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:12 pm
Back in 1985 Stephen Fry was talking about how Conservative commentators would regularly trot out the "Why are all the clever buggers on the left?" routine. Plus ca change...
Hardly our fault that the right appoints from a bottomless pool of inbred "feelers".
Re: Elites
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:40 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Has Nick Timothy ever shown any interest in an English Parliament before? Did he hate England before?
Re: Elites
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:47 pm
by mattomac
Those elites eh coming over here stealing our jobs.
Re: Elites
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:20 pm
by Crabcakes
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:40 pm
Has Nick Timothy ever shown any interest in an English Parliament before? Did he hate England before?
He has in the sense he wanted to be a Tory MP at the last election, but guess what? He failed to get picked.
Re: Elites
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:29 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Yeah, the elites of Meriden Conservative Party rejected him.
Re: Elites
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:01 pm
by Cyclist
Are you telling me he's too stupid even for the Conservatives?
Re: Elites
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:26 pm
by Andy McDandy
"Hey, remember me? I fucked your party! Gissa job!"
Re: Elites
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 10:19 pm
by MisterMuncher
I'm reminded of a born again chap I used to occasionally joust with when of a mind to amuse myself. He characterised my preference for empiricism and logic as "just snobbery. Intellectual snobbery".
Much like these folks, he harboured the idea that the reason some people tried to be clever was the hidden belief that "we" knew "they" were right all along, and it was all posturing because we couldn't accept our lot. Elitist Indeed.