No, strangely, they\’re not talking about Polly.
Just the moving rightwards as one ages plus a bit of groupthink (you don\’t notice because all of your fellow youthful firebrands that you socialise with are moving rightwards at the same time).
No, strangely, they\’re not talking about Polly.
Just the moving rightwards as one ages plus a bit of groupthink (you don\’t notice because all of your fellow youthful firebrands that you socialise with are moving rightwards at the same time).
Not universally true, of course. Some of us, as Wilson said of Benn, actually “immature with age”.
Oh, true. Look at those people who think a bit of PhotoShop blackface is simply hi-larious…
But we’re not taking you as a role model, here, so no worries! 🙂
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/guidofawkes/~3/bPkYEw7k-8o/
Simon Jenkins was heard to say to Paul Johnson…
“As people get older they seem, like yourself, to move to the right, in my case I have become more radical. Why is that do you think?”
Paul Johnson paused for thought before replying…
“Because you are a c**t.”
But sometimes, it’s not that you move, but that politics does.
Ideas that were radical in the early 80s, for example, are the status quo now. The idea of, for example, privatising the royal mail is seen as a policy to discuss with good and bad points, with some opposed automatically, some favouring automatically.
Can you imagine Thatcher getting away with that? Let alone it becoming Liberal Democrat party policy?
Simon Jenkins? Radical?
@Hugo. In fairness, that is a self assessment by Jenkins. A great line by Johnson though don’t you think.
That’s the problem with old spinsters like JuliaM… humourless twats!
Ahhh, but Bobby, you set yourself up for these things so beautifully! Who could resist?