Sticks and stones

Water

Sieghart really raised the bar with this one.

Ann

Sieghart? The hackette who wrote that people outside the M25 are backward and ignorant? ROFL.

Ian C

A great story - and it does her credit that she did not exploit it at the time. Can't see a Mail/Express/Red top journo doing that.

Your own story is familiar - on the radio?

Ann, she was right about Prezza from 'ull and the M25.

Commondog

I'm sure there has been a decided accent lately, on attacking politicians on the grounds that they are not highly intelligent. Where's this come from?

Surely there are men and women with other fine qualities which would be complementary? Would we field an England football team of eleven centre-forwards? (Not the best example I know right now) Could we abide a Government full of brainpower and nothing else?

Personally, I think that if Prescott is so bad at his job, then political writers would serve the public better by illustrating the wide range of his shortcomings, rather than the one stringed instrument which we hear.

I don't know enough about him to pass judgment on his political doings - precisely because all I have been told is that he hit an egg thrower and he can't articulate his thoughts very well.

But what I heard on the interview with JH, was a man who could accept his failings and deal with humans, which was a refreshing change from the usual parade of pangloss fools. Brains or not.

I don't think you're a tit Stephen.

John

I don't know enough about him to pass judgment on his political doings

But this doesn't seem to stop you having an opinion about the attacks on him.
Prescott is thick, not unlike two short planks. He also has a problem with telling the truth. He is also useless and makes a mess of everything he touches. And he is spectacularly greedy. None of them very unusual in themselves in NuLiebor, but all of them to a greater degree than most of his rival for the title of the most useless waste of time ever.
He promised, categorically, hand on heart, on his budgerigar's grave, that if he doesn't solve the road traffic problem in five years or whatever (stupid ambition, what?), he'll resign.
He didn't solve it.
He didn't resign.
Plenty more examples, if you bother to do some looking up.

Commondog

John.

So, you would stop me having and opinion would you?
Why would my partial knowledge preclude me from insisting on fair treatment?
And are you sure that your knowledge has reached the required threshold?

Also, all that description of this one man - except the thick as two short planks figure, which I must use myself somewhere - would fit most of those in the Commons. So why single him out?

The thrust of my argument, was actually, that too much emphasis is placed on the fact that politicians are supposed to be supremely intelligent - this to the exclusion of all other qualities. Stephen's comment and link merely sparked me into that direction.

If you had any ideas on this then perhaps you'd like to put them forward.

Meanwhile I'll continue to form my opinions from the material I have at hand, not just join in the squeals of glee generated by 'two Jags' headlines.