Well? Didja see 'em, didja, didja? No, me neither! It seems the entire country went on about its business yesterday utterly disinterested in what our prime and deputy prime ministers had to say as they extolled the virtues of what they had achieved in the first two and a half years and enthralling us - not! - with their plans for the next two and a half. Personally, I was far too busy fighting off the mass vandal attack by Google/Imgres (see below) but even the MSM seem less than interested, preferring, I assume by the absence of much in the way of commentary today, to do their tax returns or paint the mother-in-law's kitchen rather than listen to these two A1 crashers pretend that they really, really, are grown-up statesmen.
Mind you, I suppose, when I ponder on't, better this pair of obvious lightweight chancers than some swivel-eyed fanatic filled to busting with "that vision thang"! When you think about it, 98% of politics is total humdrum tedium that only the social inadequates who take up politics could put up with for more than five minutes because in return it allows them to "strut their hour upon the stage". In other words, boring politics is, on the whole, by and large, taken in the round, better than exciting politics! Even so, one occasionaly yearns for some sense of direction, some indication of a world view, a hint perhaps that our inglorious leaders have something more in mind than just staying in the job long enough to nail down a Blair-style sinecure for the second half of their lives that will bring in enough moolah to soften the loss of sundry creeps constantly muttering , "Yes, Prime minister", "Thank you, Prime Minister" and "It's time for your press conference, Prime Minister".
Couldn't agree more. I think they probably know they are boring us, but it works. We switch off and the bureaucrats get on with it while Dave and Nick carry on networking.
Posted by: A K Haart | Tuesday, 08 January 2013 at 11:19
About sums it up, AK!
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 08 January 2013 at 13:38
Noticed an item while on my rounds David, you'd emailed asking about the guy sometime back:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/#50395294
Posted by: JK | Tuesday, 08 January 2013 at 18:18
Well, now, see, politics IS bloody boring and that's what the buggars are counting on.... that our eyes will glaze over and we will fall asleep while they are droning on and then they will say something important, like, "We've just taken on Portugal" (or Greece) as a colony", and you've all missed it because you were dozing.
What's that old thingie ... Be alert .. Australia needs lerts.
I think you lot need them even more than we do and our plight is totally desperate. The woman PM is becoming more and more objectionable by the day and her hair keeps changing colour ... she's pretty much given up being a red-head. The arse is the same size though! OS
Posted by: Andra | Wednesday, 09 January 2013 at 09:02
Thanks, JK, what was most amusing was the barely concealed 'shlock-horror' on the part of the two MSNBC guys - like a pair of old dowagers who had heard the duke fart!
It's the same the whole world over, Andra!
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 09 January 2013 at 10:04