David Starkey -- he's off again!
Discussion
Bloke in the audience a long term labour voter.
His point can we now and the PM and MPs stop blaming labour about the current financial situation time to move on etc.
Response well in that case why did Gordon Brown Tony Blair etc still hammer on about the 15% interest rate that had no relevance after the late 90's as everyone by then was into a property boom so no issue labour banged on about it and still do 22 years after the fact when the biggest issue post WW2 was down to in no small part labour.
His point can we now and the PM and MPs stop blaming labour about the current financial situation time to move on etc.
Response well in that case why did Gordon Brown Tony Blair etc still hammer on about the 15% interest rate that had no relevance after the late 90's as everyone by then was into a property boom so no issue labour banged on about it and still do 22 years after the fact when the biggest issue post WW2 was down to in no small part labour.
toastybase said:
footballer speaks well.
For a footballer.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
It is the sheer speed and quality of his intelligence and the depth of his knowledge, that I enjoy watching.
Something of an intellectual snob, Starkey is devastating in his acid criticism of the weak minded opposition and the socialists in particular. He simply operates with a fluency of prose and grasp of the British Constitution that no current politician can match.
He is rarely pitted against senior politicians because the likes of Cameroon and Moonpig would just wilt in front of the Starkey machine gun. And be seen for was they are.
Spin merchants and apparatchiks simply cannot cope with the sincerity and depth of Starkey's prose. Without a written speech to crib from they cpuld not hope to appear anything other than second rate.
Pity we cannot insist upon it.
More power to Starkey. He is a brilliantly eccentric, genuine Englishman.
Something of an intellectual snob, Starkey is devastating in his acid criticism of the weak minded opposition and the socialists in particular. He simply operates with a fluency of prose and grasp of the British Constitution that no current politician can match.
He is rarely pitted against senior politicians because the likes of Cameroon and Moonpig would just wilt in front of the Starkey machine gun. And be seen for was they are.
Spin merchants and apparatchiks simply cannot cope with the sincerity and depth of Starkey's prose. Without a written speech to crib from they cpuld not hope to appear anything other than second rate.
Pity we cannot insist upon it.
More power to Starkey. He is a brilliantly eccentric, genuine Englishman.
Welshbeef said:
What's David S on about now with WW2 and the French revolution.
I know what he means sadly the people attending are missing his point.
He's right. Just a different view that majority of the audience had not been aware of. Plenty of nodding, plenty of clapping. He is leagues above the panel intellectually, and just gets frustrated with the pap regurgitated endlessly. Dimbleby was well put in his place too.....the ego has landed there.I know what he means sadly the people attending are missing his point.
Steffan said:
It is the sheer speed and quality of his intelligence and the depth of his knowledge, that I enjoy watching.
Something of an intellectual snob, Starkey is devastating in his acid criticism of the weak minded opposition and the socialists in particular. He simply operates with a fluency of prose and grasp of the British Constitution that no current politician can match.
Indeed. When he was on one of this runs the camera flicked to the Labour woman, her face was a mask of confusion as she was trying to follow what he was saying.Something of an intellectual snob, Starkey is devastating in his acid criticism of the weak minded opposition and the socialists in particular. He simply operates with a fluency of prose and grasp of the British Constitution that no current politician can match.
I didn't catch who that Labour MP lady was, but I'm glad she doesn't represent my constituency. What a vacuous, intellectually stupid person. She sat there and said pretty much nothing for the entire programme. Like a rabbit in the headlights from the Starkey assault and absolutely no ability to respond or push her viewpoint.
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