Discussion
kev1974 said:
It was a light hearted send up of the year's headlines about her, as were the opening lines of the speech about being up all night sticking the letters on the backdrop and borrowing Geoffrey Cox's voice if she started coughing. What's wrong with a bit of self-directed humour?
There is a time and a place.This is one the year's most important set piece speeches.
If she was doing it when walking on to a puff-piece interview on the one show then sort of fair enough.
But look at the f
king state of her. desolate said:
There is a time and a place.
This is one the year's most important set piece speeches.
If she was doing it when walking on to a puff-piece interview on the one show then sort of fair enough.
But look at the fking state of her.
So after appearing to be drubbed in the press for the past two years for being a 'robot', 'cold' and 'lacking empathy' now she's to be harangued for injecting a bit of humour?This is one the year's most important set piece speeches.
If she was doing it when walking on to a puff-piece interview on the one show then sort of fair enough.
But look at the f
king state of her. I'm certainly no supporter but seems a bit harsh to me.
desolate said:
kev1974 said:
It was a light hearted send up of the year's headlines about her, as were the opening lines of the speech about being up all night sticking the letters on the backdrop and borrowing Geoffrey Cox's voice if she started coughing. What's wrong with a bit of self-directed humour?
There is a time and a place.This is one the year's most important set piece speeches.
If she was doing it when walking on to a puff-piece interview on the one show then sort of fair enough.
But look at the f
king state of her. What strikes me is that you might get an occasion in life when you are winging something, and there comes a point when you feel you are going to get shown up. But it you don't, so you bluff a bit further, still wondering of course when you will get rumbled, so you eventually stop before that happens. Like when you get 2/3s of they way into changing a gearbox on the driveway on your own on a Wednesday night with only a trolley jack and a set of cheap spanners, but as it's two days before you are due to go on a prepaid European road trip, you accept that discretion is the better part of valour and take it to a garage instead. But Theresa May, and Boris J and the likes never seem to reach this final state of mind, they just bluff away when it's plain to see they are so far out of their depth and sinking rapidly, and it's too late to arrest the sink. Consequences don't seem to matter to them. Their minds don't recognize incompetence, and their incompetence simply knows no bounds.
andy_s said:
desolate said:
There is a time and a place.
This is one the year's most important set piece speeches.
If she was doing it when walking on to a puff-piece interview on the one show then sort of fair enough.
But look at the fking state of her.
So after appearing to be drubbed in the press for the past two years for being a 'robot', 'cold' and 'lacking empathy' now she's to be harangued for injecting a bit of humour?This is one the year's most important set piece speeches.
If she was doing it when walking on to a puff-piece interview on the one show then sort of fair enough.
But look at the f
king state of her. I'm certainly no supporter but seems a bit harsh to me.
I thought it was a very good speech and I'm not really a fan either.
desolate said:
kev1974 said:
It was a light hearted send up of the year's headlines about her, as were the opening lines of the speech about being up all night sticking the letters on the backdrop and borrowing Geoffrey Cox's voice if she started coughing. What's wrong with a bit of self-directed humour?
There is a time and a place.This is one the year's most important set piece speeches.
If she was doing it when walking on to a puff-piece interview on the one show then sort of fair enough.
But look at the f
king state of her. Public awareness mission accomplished I'd say.
She spoke for an hour, I think an opening minute of lightheartedness is acceptable.
It was better than Comrade Corbyn's speech last week which was absolutely littered with stupid jokes and comedy soundbites accompanied by false performing seal like applause at every sentence, as if it was being read out in front of North Koreans fearful of being sent away.
kev1974 said:
desolate said:
kev1974 said:
It was a light hearted send up of the year's headlines about her, as were the opening lines of the speech about being up all night sticking the letters on the backdrop and borrowing Geoffrey Cox's voice if she started coughing. What's wrong with a bit of self-directed humour?
There is a time and a place.This is one the year's most important set piece speeches.
If she was doing it when walking on to a puff-piece interview on the one show then sort of fair enough.
But look at the f
king state of her. Public awareness mission accomplished I'd say.
She spoke for an hour, I think an opening minute of lightheartedness is acceptable.
It was better than Comrade Corbyn's speech last week which was absolutely littered with stupid jokes and comedy soundbites accompanied by false performing seal like applause at every sentence, as if it was being read out in front of North Koreans fearful of being sent away.
kev1974 said:
Well that opening minute with the Dancing Queen backing has got the fact that she made a speech today at all, headline news and all over social media.
Public awareness mission accomplished I'd say.
She spoke for an hour, I think an opening minute of lightheartedness is acceptable.
It was better than Comrade Corbyn's speech last week which was absolutely littered with stupid jokes and comedy soundbites accompanied by false performing seal like applause at every sentence, as if it was being read out in front of North Koreans fearful of being sent away.
I don't like May, or her policies, but frankly there is a section of the commentariat who would criticise Oti Mabuse's dancing if she were a Tory.Public awareness mission accomplished I'd say.
She spoke for an hour, I think an opening minute of lightheartedness is acceptable.
It was better than Comrade Corbyn's speech last week which was absolutely littered with stupid jokes and comedy soundbites accompanied by false performing seal like applause at every sentence, as if it was being read out in front of North Koreans fearful of being sent away.
This was a speech to the party, it showed self awareness, a depreciating sense of humour and a certain determination. 'Not Statesmen-like' is the last defence of someone who can't muster a counter-argument to her policies.
djdest said:
Fk me, that needs a ROFL warning, don't watch it in the office, everyone will turn around and stare at you when you guffaw loudly in disbelief.Oh, and "#brexs
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andy_s said:
Hayek said:
Can you imagine Mrs Thatcher walking on like that? No neither can I.
I tried to look for her old Twitter feed to #factcheck, but apparently the world has changed a little in the intervening three decades.Hayek said:
andy_s said:
Hayek said:
Can you imagine Mrs Thatcher walking on like that? No neither can I.
I tried to look for her old Twitter feed to #factcheck, but apparently the world has changed a little in the intervening three decades.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff