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    Prezza on News Night

    Normally I'm one to deride John Prescott at every opportunity, but tonight on News Night, he fairly panned the little banking gnomes who were set up against him.

    Respect Prezza!

    Have a pie on me.

    You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

    #2
    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
    Normally I'm one to deride John Prescott at every opportunity, but tonight on News Night, he fairly panned the little banking gnomes who were set up against him.

    Respect Prezza!

    Have a pie on me.

    I didn't see it but when a man speaks from the heart he is bound to come over well. His heart is socialist just like the rest of his party, but their heads are pretty corrupt when it comes to expenses. To pan the banks but grant themselves massive expenses which are unjustified is hypocritical IMO, but then again most socialists are hypocrites.

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      #3
      Cyberman posted then again most socialists are hypocrites
      I think you will find that most humans are hypocrites. It's not a trait unique to any politcial party member.

      Why ? Because humans are intrinsically opportunisitic (part of our survial programming), and when faced with a decision that will offer us advantage, we usually take it, even if we have in the past decried such behaviour.

      The way we deal with our own hypocrisy is to convince ourselves that "this time, it's different and not the same, so I am ok". Self-delusion is a wonderful thing.

      I'd go a stage further and say that for some, the act of decrying an action as wrong is an evolutionary tool to ensure the competition don't consider it, allowing the decryer to perpetrate the same action unopposed. A bit like warning off the competition so the playing field is yours, so to speak.
      Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

      C.S. Lewis

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        #4
        Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
        I think you will find that most humans are hypocrites. It's not a trait unique to any politcial party member.
        Absolutely. I don't remember Tories being any more or less corrupt.
        Originally posted by MaryPoppins
        I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
        Originally posted by vetran
        Urine is quite nourishing

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          #5
          Originally posted by d000hg View Post
          Absolutely. I don't remember Tories being any more or less corrupt.
          This thread was about hypocrisy.

          Prescott's default position is to hate anyone with money, especially the old money of 'the upper classes', unless there is something in it for him personally (and I don't mean corruption).

          That is the hypocrisy of champagne socialism that one cannot easily level at tories.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post

            Prescott's default position is to hate anyone with money, especially the old money of 'the upper classes', unless there is something in it for him personally (and I don't mean corruption).
            Croquet?
            And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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              #7
              Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
              This thread was about hypocrisy.
              Is it? I thought it was about Prezza being on newsnight and bogey being suitably impressed...
              Older and ...well, just older!!

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                #8
                Originally posted by Cyberman View Post
                I didn't see it
                http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ht_09_02_2009/

                Starts 13:10 in.

                I keep expecting his chair to collapse as he rocks back and forth.
                Last edited by Pickle2; 10 February 2009, 14:11.
                The Mods stole my post count!

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by ratewhore View Post
                  Is it? I thought it was about Prezza being on newsnight and bogey being suitably impressed...
                  Twas.

                  You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
                    Twas.
                    There you go Doggy, you must have misunderstood.

                    Bogey, I thought you were going down the boozer?
                    Older and ...well, just older!!

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