That's Smith, with an S.
Two (more) reasons Geoff Hoon's an idiot.
An intrusive press is to blame for the public's lack of trust in politicians, eh, Geoff? I suppose technically that's inarguable, since if the media weren't intrusive we wouldn't have much of an idea of what you lot get up to when you're not snoozing away on the green benches - but guess what? If you weren't so venal and iniquitous, so self-serving, so self-righteous, so profligate and so treacherous away from the green benches, maybe the press would have no ammunition with which gleefully to destroy our trust in you in the first place. I think politicians' utter lack of trustworthiness is to blame for the public's lack of trust in politicians. It's especially astonishing to me that these beautifully aggrieved-sounding comments could come from a senior member of this Government, elected promising to be whiter than white and having left a filthy grey trail of slime, patronage and corruption everywhere it has slithered. If this doesn't show how sociopathic politicians are capable of being, I not sure what will.
That's one reason you're an idiot, although in fairness to you I doubt you were acting independently. No doubt someone in Number 10 decided they'd taken enough of a battering from the press this month and it was time to break out the wounded innocent act. Whatever. You all stink and you know it. That's so obvious as to have been a waste of keyboard wear and tear.
Here's why you're really an idiot though. In the words of Captain Dudley Smith (the excellent James Cromwell) in LA Confidential, reciprocity is the key to every successful relationship. You are part of a Government that has presided over the greatest encroachment over a person's right to self-determination in the history of this country. From ludicrous Health and Safety regulation to an insistence on dragging even successful, moderately wealthy middle-class families into the benefits trap (£50,000pa and you can still claim tax credits!); from your obsession with directing our lifestyle choices by banning perfectly legal activities like hunting and smoking to the greatest expansion of CCTV capability ever seen, such that London is now by far the most heavily-monitored city in the world; from laws attempting to regulate what we can say, joke about or laugh at to laws, agreed only yesterday, that force us to submit our identity to your control, and pay for the privilege of carrying a card we will still not own. The message overall is unmistakable: you do not trust us. Without your benign guidance and loving protection we should wallow in ignorance, poverty and criminality like the degenerate, recidivist pigs we inevitably are. Only the state can make us genuine citizens. Only through the state are we validated.
So why should we trust you?
An intrusive press is to blame for the public's lack of trust in politicians, eh, Geoff? I suppose technically that's inarguable, since if the media weren't intrusive we wouldn't have much of an idea of what you lot get up to when you're not snoozing away on the green benches - but guess what? If you weren't so venal and iniquitous, so self-serving, so self-righteous, so profligate and so treacherous away from the green benches, maybe the press would have no ammunition with which gleefully to destroy our trust in you in the first place. I think politicians' utter lack of trustworthiness is to blame for the public's lack of trust in politicians. It's especially astonishing to me that these beautifully aggrieved-sounding comments could come from a senior member of this Government, elected promising to be whiter than white and having left a filthy grey trail of slime, patronage and corruption everywhere it has slithered. If this doesn't show how sociopathic politicians are capable of being, I not sure what will.
That's one reason you're an idiot, although in fairness to you I doubt you were acting independently. No doubt someone in Number 10 decided they'd taken enough of a battering from the press this month and it was time to break out the wounded innocent act. Whatever. You all stink and you know it. That's so obvious as to have been a waste of keyboard wear and tear.
Here's why you're really an idiot though. In the words of Captain Dudley Smith (the excellent James Cromwell) in LA Confidential, reciprocity is the key to every successful relationship. You are part of a Government that has presided over the greatest encroachment over a person's right to self-determination in the history of this country. From ludicrous Health and Safety regulation to an insistence on dragging even successful, moderately wealthy middle-class families into the benefits trap (£50,000pa and you can still claim tax credits!); from your obsession with directing our lifestyle choices by banning perfectly legal activities like hunting and smoking to the greatest expansion of CCTV capability ever seen, such that London is now by far the most heavily-monitored city in the world; from laws attempting to regulate what we can say, joke about or laugh at to laws, agreed only yesterday, that force us to submit our identity to your control, and pay for the privilege of carrying a card we will still not own. The message overall is unmistakable: you do not trust us. Without your benign guidance and loving protection we should wallow in ignorance, poverty and criminality like the degenerate, recidivist pigs we inevitably are. Only the state can make us genuine citizens. Only through the state are we validated.
So why should we trust you?
posted by Novus at 09:54
1 Comments:
I'm a great fan of the notion that reciprocity is the key to every successful relationship, but it might be worth pointing out the ironic context in which the line is delivered in the movie, i.e. shortly before the corrupt police captain beats Danny DeVito's Hush-Hush reporter character to death with his hands. It underlines the point quite nicely I think.
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