Stand Up And Fight

[retrocop]

As usual I am unable to C&P a link but I just listened to Penny Mordant's conference speech. I really think she should engage another speech writer. It was er ....bizarre to say the least. She appears to want to portray herself as Henry V or Sir Winston Churchill. She repeated 'Stand up and Fight' twelve times and the effect fell flat in my opinion. I found it toe curling. What did you think? 

[MargoTester]

Didn't see it Retro, but like you I still can't post a link it's so frustrating 😡

[naomi24]

This Retro?

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/penny-mordaunt-speech-conservative-party-conference-b2424185.html

[bednobs]

you posted a link earlier retro!

[retrocop]

bednobs

Yes I know I did. That is why it is so bloody frustrating. It is random hit and miss. It was never like this before 'site improvements with stupid e-mojis etc

 

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/penny-mordaunt-conservative-conference-speech-phrase_uk_651e68fbe4b0521d32377914

There you go. I tried another link and it works. It's so erratic. I would never normally use Huffington Post

[Peter Pedant]

used for effect

so is a "rhetorical device" - to persuade whilst giving the facts.

to be grouped with 'we will fight them on the beaches...." - altho with THAT, Churchill uses Aristotle's rule of threes ( seas and oceans, beaches, grounds)  - not 12

[ "we will fight them on the beaches.... railway sidings east cheam, Downing st ( all numbers) not the one in Cambridge...." doesnt do it for me]

or the ' white heat of the techonological revolution' Harold WIlson 1963-4. - altho the only revolutionary he got was staring eyed Tony Benn hur hur hur

or "we want eight and we wont wait!"  -- - - ( In popular sentiment, they were joined by King Edward VII, who supported eight more dreadnoughts. A Conservative MP coined what would become a popular slogan:)

note that I have given an aristotelian number of examples (3)

 

[Peter Pedant]

I tried another link and it works. It's so erotic. I would never normally use  a paper hankie -  - - -  to blow my nose

oh god even C/P on AB has caught the disease !

[naomi24]

Blimey!  I just watched that.   It was a bit over the top, to say the least, but I take her point - with bells on.  I do worry, however, about what she, personally, might have in mind when she encourages everyone to 'Stand up and fight!'  I have a sneaking suspicion that she might be fighting for something that many of us wouldn't get out of bed for.