Beyond the passionate intensity of Ukip and the far left, nobody is speaking with boldness and clarity about how to deal with a eurozone collapse. The [r]est lack all conviction.
So that’s Our Jackie then.
It’s clear what we need.
Would they now step forward, please? It will take some courage to do so – to say what they think, and to say they’ll act on it – but that’s exactly what we’re asking for from politicians.
Is that too much to ask? Surely, not?
It has to be said, the idea of Ritchie turning up to UKIP meetings does disturb. But we’ll accept his vote nonetheless, despite our being neo-liberals.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Philip Scott Thomas // Nov 28, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Tim –
You’re the resident expert round these parts. Is it “Ukip”, per wor Jackie, or “UKIP”?
Tim adds: We put UKIP. Guardian style book says only capitalise first letter of acronym if said acronym is usually pronounced as a word rather than as individual letters.
So, Ukip, but MBS and CDO.
2 Gawain Towler // Nov 28, 2011 at 1:30 pm
We prefer UKIP, but frankly it doesn’t matter.
PA, the BBC, most papers all use Ukip, despite us asking regularly for them to use our own orthography.
But really, who cares?
3 Carl // Nov 28, 2011 at 1:32 pm
I see what’s going on here – the left supports Ukippers so as to split the right. That’s the Farage Fever we believe in.
4 Judge // Nov 28, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Jackie’s not praising UKIP – her quote refers to the Yeats poem Second Coming:
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
She’s putting UKIP in the “worst” category.
Of course the ignorant accountant mangled the quote, thinking he knew better…
5 Frances Coppola // Nov 28, 2011 at 5:52 pm
I can’t help thinking that what RM really wants is not for politicians to act according to what they think, but according to what he thinks.
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