[NetBehaviour] concentrated nastiness

[James Morris]

On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 12:46:57 +0100
dave miller <dave.miller.uk at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Conservative Party annual conference took place this week in
> Manchester. A government made up of millionaires relishing the
> limelight. They praised themselves for keeping to Plan A, their policy
> of delivering austerity, which is tearing society apart and crippling
> the economy. While talking about fairness, they promised to reduce
> workers rights, blamed immigrants and told us all to stop being so
> miserable and show some of Britain's indomitable bulldog spirit. The
> rain drizzled.
> 
> http://davemiller.org/drawings/austerity/concentrated_nastiness.png



I saw a clip on the news last night (CH4, BBC1, or ITV, can't remember
which) of David Cameron delivering his keynote speech. It sounded to
me like the most hollow words, entirely meaningless sound bites. I
can't imagine who would be convinced by it. I can't imagine who would
want this man leading our country. Perhaps the editing was done in
such a way as to emphasise his unattractiveness. No one actually wants
him to lead the country... I'm not sure what even leading the country
means. He talked about the economy being in crisis, and their plan
being the right plan and stating without any doubt whatsoever that
their plan would work. What a devil!

Then a clip of the audience clapping him, hoorah, clap clap. The funny
thing was all the young conservatives were sitting there
right at the front, stony faced, arms folded refusing flat out to clap,
refusing to be impressed by the mountains of shit Cameron had just
spoken. That gave me a glimmer of hope for the future, except that they
all looked a very weird bunch whom I suspected had never spent a day in
their childhood playing except perhaps one day where they played for
five minutes with their silver spoons.

James.

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