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Captain Haddock wrote:Boris is a clever buffoon, but he is much to similar in some ways to Trump so I hope he never gets to be PM.
1) Who would I like to sit next to at a dinner party?
2) Who would I like to be on a pub quiz team with me?
3) Who would I allow my daughter to share the back of a taxi with?
At least Boris score two out of three with me.
You've given the people just two options as to who they'd like as the next PM...Boris or Trump. Isn't this the issue with politics both sides of the pond? In a nutshell - and in reality - the people get to choose which of the hegemonic 1% to select. Isn't this the reason why, since the Thatcher and Reagan age, we've had neo-liberal leaders irrespective of which party they campaigned "for"? Isn't this also why we have the mainstream media attacking anything that jeopardises this 'norm' too?
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Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Button
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That went way over my head. Point is, my cat scores 2 out of 3 also and likes being the centre of attention, but as PM - no. Wouldn't get on with Larry anyway.
(Not my real name.)
Captain Haddock
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Your cat free for the quiz tomorrow?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
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For those like me who do not go in for obscure or unusual words Mr Google told me......
Definition of hegemonic - ruling or dominant in a political or social context.
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Jan Higgins wrote:For those like me who do not go in for obscure or unusual words Mr Google told me......
Definition of hegemonic - ruling or dominant in a political or social context.
#22 & #24 My apologies for being opaque. I will endeavour to be more inline with the Plain English Campaign in future.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Weird Granny Slater
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Hegemonic enlightenment, and much more, may be found here:
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
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"Pretentious, what moi"?
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Er, I'm a librarian. I do books. Sorry about that.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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For Heaven's sake WGS what a dreadful piece of advice for those in search of political enlightenment.
Instead I'd be more than happy to lend out my signed copy of Scruton's 'Fools, Frauds and Firebrands' in which he forensically demolishes the plague of Gramsci and others of the New Left, mostly European, the bunch of cerebral onanists on which far too many students tend to waste far too much time, much as he intellectually destroyed that dreadful Toynbee woman on the night I bought his book.
BTW, you turning up to this?
Canterbury Momentum are having our first social!
Come along to the Bishops Finger on Friday 2nd Feb from 19:30 for a drink and a chat!
I got six invites since I voted for Jezza six times. Will happily buy you a pint. I'm thinking of not shaving and turning up in a frock to see if I can start a fight between the second-wave feminists and the Terfs! Happy days.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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WGS, substitute entitlement for enlightenment and with have the key issue on modern era politics.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:Instead I'd be more than happy to lend out my signed copy of Scruton's 'Fools, Frauds and Firebrands' in which he forensically demolishes the plague of Gramsci and others
Oh dear. Scrotum couldn't demolish a rocket salad.
A fellow student once gave me a copy of the 'forensic' Roger's
A Short History of Modern Philosophy before promptly disappearing into the local asylum. For all I know, he's still there. I think he was trying to tell me something.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus