05-02-2009, 08:19 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Nice to see Gordo's high standards in action eh.
The old adage that one should judge a politician not by his words, but by his actions, has never been truer.
That said, when Brown banged on year after year about having miraculously altered the economic cycle to ensure there would be "no more Boom and Bust", he was writing his own political epitaph.
Just as Tony Blair wrote his ironic epitaph by declaring:
Quote:I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am
And Peter Mandelson's lasting contribution to political thought will be his statement that:
Quote:New Labour is intensely relaxed about people becoming filthy rich
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war