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Does anyone else that think that this BNP-lite twit looks like Victor Meldrew ?
Just heard him being interviewed by Naughty on the Today program. There is a phrase that goes something like " when you are in a hole, stop digging" but he seems unaware of what he saying !
Does anyone else that think that this BNP-lite twit looks like Victor Meldrew ?
Just heard him being interviewed by Naughty on the Today program. There is a phrase that goes something like " when you are in a hole, stop digging" but he seems unaware of what he saying !
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Bongo Bongo Land was popularised in the Spoof 'Dear Bill' letters, supposedly written by Denis Thatcher, but penned by Richard Ingrams and John Wells. They were serialised in Private Eye.
The name was also used on the spoof World Atlas in the Comic Relief Book in the 1980s.
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The name was also used on the spoof World Atlas in the Comic Relief Book in the 1980s.
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@PP I saw the same interview, and came to exactly the opposite conclusion. Bloom came across as a self-important blowhard. One of those people who thinks his own opinions trump everyone elses. Very much of the Farage school of politics - claim you are "telling it like it is ", that you represent the "people of the pubs and rugby clubs", and speaking very loudly triumphs every time.
it does make them right some of the time, there are plenty of people from all sides of the divide who think that much aid money is wasted... Why give to Pakistan, they build nuclear arms, and forget to feed and educate their population. Perhaps some can see the stupidity of that, not to mention the billions and billions of cash, aid to Africa, some certainly hasn't gone on the poorest people, those it is supposed to help.
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"Are these comments racist ?" enquired the minced Beeb man
"Are you calling me racist ? Think very hard before you answer that question !"
Beeb quivers a bit more. Altho the viewers may all say 'Yeah!' or even 'Yeah a good one' we all know that if it goes to court and goes 'wrong' we as forced tax payers (or charity givers as Bloom might say) would ask if this is how our money should be spent (payng off a libel action)
"Are these comments racist ?" enquired the minced Beeb man
"Are you calling me racist ? Think very hard before you answer that question !"
Beeb quivers a bit more. Altho the viewers may all say 'Yeah!' or even 'Yeah a good one' we all know that if it goes to court and goes 'wrong' we as forced tax payers (or charity givers as Bloom might say) would ask if this is how our money should be spent (payng off a libel action)
This man may look a little like Victor Meldrew, but there the similarities end.
Victor was a man trapped in a world of foolish beurocracy which thwarted him at every twist and turn. He railed against stpupidity and inefficiency at every opportunity, not because he was a fool and a bigot, quite the opposite, his deep sensitivity made it impossible for him to let such things go by without protest.
Victor's similarities to this politiaicn are .... um ... non-existent.
Victor was a man trapped in a world of foolish beurocracy which thwarted him at every twist and turn. He railed against stpupidity and inefficiency at every opportunity, not because he was a fool and a bigot, quite the opposite, his deep sensitivity made it impossible for him to let such things go by without protest.
Victor's similarities to this politiaicn are .... um ... non-existent.
NO jack - the idea is that it is poor people being forced to give to to rich people...( taxes which are the source are not voluntary or directed)
Bloom is not the first to say that govt charity is wasted
This idea has been around since the 60s
but IS the first to say in public there is no audit trial and so we have no idea once given where it goes.
Bloom is not the first to say that govt charity is wasted
This idea has been around since the 60s
but IS the first to say in public there is no audit trial and so we have no idea once given where it goes.
at least he is a representative of a fringe party; things have changed since Alan Clark, a Tory, used the same phrase. emmie, while you call Clark sensible, consider this, from his obituary in the Telegraph:
"Though Clark was not a heavy drinker, in a celebrated incident he made the mistake of accepting an invitation to a wine tasting before making his first important ministerial speech. He read in a mocking tone a passage on equal rights for women. After Clare Short accused him of being "incapable", he gabbled the rest. In his own words, he was brought down by "odious over-confidence" and three particularly fine wines."
Equal rights for foxes but not for women.
"Though Clark was not a heavy drinker, in a celebrated incident he made the mistake of accepting an invitation to a wine tasting before making his first important ministerial speech. He read in a mocking tone a passage on equal rights for women. After Clare Short accused him of being "incapable", he gabbled the rest. In his own words, he was brought down by "odious over-confidence" and three particularly fine wines."
Equal rights for foxes but not for women.
@PP no one here is contesting that foreign aid is a subject worthy of discussion. No one here is contesting that tax arrangements are worthy of discussion - although describing is as being forced on the unwilling by the goverment is just a facile observation.
It is the manner in which he expresses himself, and the contemptuous dismissal of vast swathes of the globe as "bongo bongo land" that is being criticised. It is this nonsense that because he expresses himself loudly and forcefully that this somehow makes his opinion worth more. It is the notion that because he appeals to the lowest common denominator that somehow this imbues his idea with rationality that offends.
As to his hectoring of the interviewer - it was an object lesson in how to turn defence into attack, but I do not think it works to his credit.
All that having been said - He was instrumental in highlighting the scandal surrounding mis-selling of pensions, and I would agree with some of his sentiments surrounding the FSA etc, so he is evidently not stupid.
It is the manner in which he expresses himself, and the contemptuous dismissal of vast swathes of the globe as "bongo bongo land" that is being criticised. It is this nonsense that because he expresses himself loudly and forcefully that this somehow makes his opinion worth more. It is the notion that because he appeals to the lowest common denominator that somehow this imbues his idea with rationality that offends.
As to his hectoring of the interviewer - it was an object lesson in how to turn defence into attack, but I do not think it works to his credit.
All that having been said - He was instrumental in highlighting the scandal surrounding mis-selling of pensions, and I would agree with some of his sentiments surrounding the FSA etc, so he is evidently not stupid.
"A teeny tiny spec of a man.
Virtually unworthy of our attention."
yet you posted !
hilarious comments but as usual all the self righteous handwringers from the land of the perpetually offended get their knickers in a twist
hilarious
bet you wouldnt make so much fuss if it was german sausage eaters or the french talking about les rosbifs being talked about.
the only Victor meldrew on here is obviously mikey444 always taking offence at something or other
LMAO
Virtually unworthy of our attention."
yet you posted !
hilarious comments but as usual all the self righteous handwringers from the land of the perpetually offended get their knickers in a twist
hilarious
bet you wouldnt make so much fuss if it was german sausage eaters or the french talking about les rosbifs being talked about.
the only Victor meldrew on here is obviously mikey444 always taking offence at something or other
LMAO
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